‘In the above-mentioned year 421, on the
25th day of March, at midday on Holy Monday, this most illustrious, exalted and most marvellous Christian City was founded, the Heavens at that time finding themselves in a
most propitious disposition...’.
Chronicon Altinate
eleventh-twelfth century
Palazzo Ducale - Apartamento del Doge
Venetia 1600 - Births and Rebirths
To celebrate the 1600th anniversary of Venice the monumental exhibition - Venetia 1600 - Births and Rebirths - until March 25 - is staged in the very place that most symbolises the
power and glory of the Serenissima: the Palazzo Ducale in Piazza San Marco. It is curated by Robert Echols, Frederick Illchman, Gabriele Matino and Andrea Bellieni, with the technical directorship of Gabriella Belli and a layout by Pier Luigi Pizzi. Promoted by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, the exhibition uses a sort of
fabulous and surprising illustrated story through the centuries to undertake the difficult
but exciting task of recounting – through more than 250 works of art, ancient artefacts
and rare documents – the moments, places, monuments and personalities that have
marked the history of Venice. To do this, it has chosen an unusual point of view, that of
the countless moments of crisis and rupture and the equally many regenerations and
renewals that have marked its existence.
Vittore Carpaccio
Leone di San Marco andante "da tera e da mar" - 1516
Venetian Sculptor
Venezia come Giustizia - 1526c.
Venetia 1600 - Births and Rebirths - exhibits fundamental steps in the history and identity of Venice, repeatedly called upon to replan its future and rethink its destiny, as witnessed by the works and documents of the greatest artists who have worked in the lagoon over almost a millennium – Carpaccio, Bellini, Titian, Veronese, Tiepolo, Rosalba Carriera, Guardi and Canaletto, through to Canova, Hayez, Appiani; and so on to Pollock, Vedova, Tancredi, Santomaso – but also many architects, talented men of art, writers and musicians who have accompanied its evolution.
Piazzetta San Marco con la Loggetta e la Libreria
1730-1740 - oil on canvas 69 x 92cm
1730-1740 - oil on canvas 69 x 92cm
co-curator Andrea Bellieni, technical director Gabriella Belli
exhibition layout by Pier Luigi Pizzi
Alberto Prosdocimi
Facciata delle Basilica di San Marco - 1881
Lazzaro Bastiani - attribuito
Annunciazione e Madonna col Bambino - trittico - 1490c.
Vittore Carpaccio
Vocazione di San Matteo - detail - 1502
Joseph Heintz - il giovane
La processione del Redentore
oil on canvas 115 x 205cm - 1648-1650
La processione del Redentore
oil on canvas 115 x 205cm - 1648-1650
Renato Cevese - curatore - Andrei Soltan - disegnatore
Ballico-Officina Modellisti SAS - realizzazione
Modello della Chiesa del Redentore - 1972
Andrea Palladio - architetto
Ballico-Officina Modellisti SAS - realizzazione
Modello della Chiesa del Redentore - 1972
Andrea Palladio - architetto
Lazzaro Bastiani
Ritratto del Doge Francesco Foscari - 1460c.
Ritratto del Doge Francesco Foscari - 1460c.
Jacopo Negretti - detto - Palma il Giovane
Madonna col Bambino in Gloria, San Magno che incorona Venezia affiancato dalla fede - 1610-1620c.
Madonna col Bambino in Gloria, San Magno che incorona Venezia affiancato dalla fede - 1610-1620c.
Exhibition View
Costume and Ceremony
Costume and Ceremony
photograph courtesy FMCV - Venezia - Musaeo CorrerLuigi Querena
L’incendio della Scuola dei Morti a San Geremia
tempera on canvas - 104 x 165cm - 1850 post
Giandomenico Tiepolo
Venezia riceve da Nettuno le Richezze del Mare
oil on canvas - 135x275 cm - 1756-1758
The Capital of Exhibition Art
photograph courtesy FMCV - Proiezione a colori in alta definizione
su parete in ambiente oscurato; suono
surround 5.1
Bill Viola
La Zattera - Maggio 2004
video installation
La Zattera - Maggio 2004
video installation
Andrea Merola
Piazza San Marco - during - Acqua Alta - 12 November - 2019
Piazza San Marco - during - Acqua Alta - 12 November - 2019
Studio Azzuro
Oltre - video installation - 2021