Venice Museums
Libraries, art galleries and exhibition rooms in Venice Italy
Ca' Pesaro – National Gallery of Modern Art
The art collection of Ca’ Pesaro mainly collects Italian works of the 19th and 20th century, but you can also find some considerable European works from the same time, many of them were bought during the previous editions of Biennale in Venice. Among the Italian artists we can mention: Boccioni, De Chirico, Carrà, Sironi and Morandi; among the European ones: Bonnard, Chagall, Ernst, Kandinsky, Klimt and Mirò.
The Accademy Gallery
Founded in 1750 as an art school, it became a picture gallery in 1807, following Napoleon’s wishes, who cancelled every monastery and other religious buildings. It’s housed inside the former Church (and school) of S.Maria della Carità; its wide collection of Venetian painters and artists goes from the 14th to the 18th century. Near world famous works, as The Tempest by Giorgione, the Presentation of the Virgin by Tiziano and the Legends of S.Orsola by Carpaccio, you can also admire masterpieces by Giovanni and Gentile Bellini, Mantegna, Lorenzo Lotto, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi and many others.
Peggy Guggeneim Collection
Inside the Palace Venier dei Leoni, along the Canal Grande, you can find the famous house-museum which belonged to the famous American patron Peggy Guggenheim, with her personal collection of masterpieces from different avant-gardes of the 20th century (Cubism, futurism, dada, abstract art, surrealism, Russian art), but even works from other collections and temporary exhibitions.
Ca' d'Oro - Franchetti Gallery
In 1915 the Baron Giorgio Fianchetti presented the Italian State with the Ca’ d’Oro and all its considerable art collections, among them the works San Sebastian by Mantegna, the Virgin in the mirror by Tiziano, as well as paintings by Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Carpaccio, Tintoretto, Guardi, Van Eyck and many other German and Flemish artists, pottery, marble statues, bronzes, archaeological findings and tapestries. Here you can also find some frescoes which were torn off from other Venetian buildings in order to protect them from deterioration, among them the frescoes by Tiziano (coming from the Fondaco dei Tedeschi).
Historical Naval Museum
Though officially founded in 1919, this Museum dates back to the second half of the 17th century. It collects a wide range of memorabilia from the Venetian Republic and the Italian Navy, as well as scale models of ships, remains of 18th century galleys, a collection of flags and uniforms and historical documents belonging to the arsenal.
The Ducal Palace
Until the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797, the Ducal Palace was the Doge’s residence, as well as the main seat of the city government, the tribunal and the prison. The oldest part of it dates back to the 10th century, but it was heavily transformed during the 15th and 17th centuries. Behind the white and pink fronts you can find the large rooms which used to house the political life, decorated by Veronese, Tintoretto and many other important artists of the Renaissance. The Doge’s apartments are to be found here as well, side by side with the famous “Piombi” prisons, rooms and secret passages until the tortures’ chamber. In 1923 the State, owner of the whole building, gave it to the municipality of Venice, and so the palace was finally opened to the tourists.
Ca' Rezzonico – Museum of the 18th Century in Venice
Ca' Rezzonico, the splendid palace overlooking the Canal Grande, still witnesses of everyday life in Venice during the 18th century, a period of splendour and squandering for the Serenissima Republic. Decorations and original furnishings, as well as masterpieces by Tiepolo, Guardi, Longhi, Canaletto e Rosalba Carriera give us a real fine view of this period. Particularly remarkable is the ball room, with a wonderful trompe d'oeil, and the wedding room with its precious toilette.
San Marco Museum - The Treasure and The Golden Altar Piece
The treasure belonging to the Basilica of S.Marco is made up of 283 pieces of gold, silver, glass and other materials; the first part of it dates back to the 13th century, when Constantinople was plundered by the Venetian army during the fourth crusade (between1204 and 1261). The most unusual and precious masterpiece from this pillage is inside the Basilica, on the main altar: the so called Pala d’oro (i.e. golden altar piece) which preserves the Saint’s relics. It’s a gold-plated silver frame with 255 Byzantine enamels and over 200 emeralds, rubies, amethysts, pearls and other precious stones created between the 13th and the 14th century.
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