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Leonardo: The Vitruvian Man between Art and Science - Accademia Galleries

2009-11-24T14:21:51+01:00

Back after seven years from the time it was the last shown at Venetian museum where where it had been kept since 1822 is Leonardo's celebrated drawing depicting the ideal human proportions according the canon of proportions as set by Roman architect Vitruvio Pollio (2nd century A.D.).

This workhas been subject of a recent study that has examined its two main aspects, scientific and artistic, and is illustrated and elaborated in this show thanks to an impressive educational and audio-visual system.

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Prendergast in Italy - Peggy Guggenheim Collection

2009-11-24T14:02:22+01:00

is exhibition will assemble for the first time the major works by American artist, Maurice Prendergast, during two trips to Italy (1898-99 and 1911-12): a body of work that is one of the most attractive and revealing in the story of American art. The exhibition brings together approximately seventy-five of his Italian watercolors, oils, and monotypes as well as photographs, films, guidebooks, and travel advertisements that situate the work within the new visual culture that Americans had embraced by 1900. The presentation of Prendergast’s works in Italy where they were created offers a new point of interest, and contributes to the comprehension of what characterized Modernism in the early 20th century and of the role Prendergast played in the development of Modern art in America. The exhibition is organized by the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in partnership with The Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois

Palladio and/in Venice - Museo Correr

2009-11-24T13:50:14+01:00

The exhibition is part of the initiatives promoted and financed by the Veneto Regional Authorities, coordinated by the Regional Committee for the celebrations marking the five hundredth anniversary of Palladio’s birth. Organized in collaboration with the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, it goes back over Palladio’s steps in Venice and his not always univocal relations with the Venetian world, its government, intellectuals, clergymen, religious orders, charitable and devotional organisations and publishers. It includes over 300 works – printed publications, manuscripts, documents and drawings – that are testimony of Palladio’s Venetian surroundings and his work in the city (on the one hand his theoretical work, on the other, his designs, carried out, disappeared). Particular importance is given to Palladio’s intervention on the redefinition of the symbolic and unique urban fabric of Venice, Saint Mark’s Basin, with the façades of San Giorgio Maggiore and the votive Church of the Redentore and the Zitelle complex on the island of the Giudecca, creating an effect that was of extraordinary renovative strength.

Thanks to the collaboration with the Venice IUAV – Workshop System, one section of the exhibition includes new photogrammetric reliefs that, for the first time, allow a comparison between Palladio's numerous façades, thus creating an extensive collection of technical, historical and scientific data that allow the comparison and visualisation of information that had not previously been available; it also documents how the way in which Palladio's work was seen and portrayed has changed over the years.
Scientific curators of the exhibition: Lionello Puppi, Giandomenico Romanelli, Andrea Bellieni.