©G.A.VE - Archivio fotografico, foto - Joan Porcel –su concessione del Ministero della Cultura -
Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia
Venice - Gallerie dell'Accademia
New Halls of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Inauguration
The inauguration of the restored monumental Selva-Lazzari halls on the ground floor of the Galleria dell'Accademia di Venezia are now open to the public with an unprecedented and extraordinary exhibition dedicated to the paintings of Venice and the Veneto by painters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
A precious of selection of 63 works, partly never exhibited before, or never admired in their current form are the result of the restoration work carried out for the occasion. Among the restored masterpieces, Tiepolo's Castigo dei Serpenti, a canvas which measures over 13 meters long from the Venetian Church of Ss. Cosma e Damiano.
Giambattista Tiepolo - Castigo dei Serpenti - 1732-1734 circa - cat. 343
"With this initiative, the Gallerie dell'Accademia in the panorama of the world, become the privileged place, to learn about the important and still little known history of the paintings of Venice and the Veneto of the seventeenth century, that
for the first time are represented in a museum with a space entirely dedicated to them. The absolute novelty is also the preparation of the eighteenth-century hall which, alongside the unpublished masterpieces, presents a sort of 'museum within a museum', reserved for one of the art geniuses of all time, Giambattista Tiepolo".
Giulio Manieri Elia
Director - Gallerie dell' Accademia di Venezia
Giulio Manieri Elia
Director - Gallerie dell' Accademia di Venezia
Giulio Manieri Elia and Dario Franceschini - Minister of Culture
Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia
New Halls of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Gianantonio Guardi - Erminia e Vafrino Scoprono Tancredi Ferito 1750-1755 circa
In all It's Glory
Giambattista Tiepolo - Castigo dei Serpenti - 1732-1734 circa
The restoration of
Gianantonio Guardi's Erminia
e Vafrino Scoprono Tancredi Ferito and Giambattista Tiepolo's Castigo dei Serpenti - above - as well as, Luca Giordano's Deposizione di Cristo dalla Croce would not have been made possible without the generous support of Venetian Heritage, a non-profit organization committed to safeguarding and promoting Venetian cultural heritage, which also financed the entire exhibition.
Toto Bergamo Rossi - Director - Venetian Heritage
Gregorio Lazzarini - Circoncisione - 1700 circa
Paola Marini
Former Director - Galleria dell'Accademia di Venezia
Padovanino - Parabola delle vergini Sagga e delle Vergini Stolte
1636-1637 - cat 627
Luca Zaia - President of the Veneto Region and Dario Franceschini - Minister of Culture
Giulia Lama - Giuditta e Oloferne - 1725-1730 circa - cat. 1345
