In Venice, a widespread route on the Nativity in museums and nativity scenes made in the area

A diffuse itinerary on the Nativity to be discovered in Venice with the help of an interactive map: the Venice City Council has organized, as part of its calendar of Christmas events, an itinerary consisting of the fourteen works in eight museums of the MUVE Foundation and more than seventy nativity scenes created by local parishes and associations accompanied by a series of eight lectures and readings hosted by the Venice Library Network in collaboration also with Ca’ Foscari. The initiative, entitled Admirabile Signum, is the result of a synergy between the City Council, the Patriarchate, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Venice Libraries Network. Eight hundred years after the first nativity scene in history, the one conceived by St. Francis in Greccio, the tradition continues to be handed down, bringing with it a message of hope and peace. On the occasion of this journey, the City of Venice will present a perfect scale reproduction of the nativity scene that the Vatican City will display in St. Peter’s Square. The project, curated by Giovanna Zabotti, will see the work displayed in three stages: first in Mestre from December 10 to 22, then in Venice from December 23 to January 1, and finally from January 2 in Chirignago.

“The theme of the Nativity has always inspired artists and there are many works that represent it,” said Mariacristina Gribaudi, president of Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. “Some extraordinary examples are preserved in our venues. For the occasion, the Civic Museums have chosen the most significant, interesting and unpublished ones, thus participating in this celebration for which the City and the Patriarchate have become spokesmen. A message of hope and peace that is also translated through embroideries, textiles, glassware, reaffirming how art is the most effective universal communicator. So within the permanent itineraries of the exhibitions, visitors will be able to discover previously unseen works, such as the photographic plates by Carlo Naya exhibited at the Fortuny Museum, sharing and participating in this particular time of the year through culture.”

For all info on the nativity route and related events, you can visit www.comune.venezia.it/it/content/presepi

Image: Ippolito Scarsella, The Adoration of the Magi, detail (oil on canvas, 73 x 58 cm; Venice, Ca’ Rezzonico, Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Pinacoteca Egidio Martini). Photo by Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

In Venice, a widespread route on the Nativity in museums and nativity scenes made in the area

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