Venice - Finestre sull'Arte

In Venice, the art mile turns ten years old. Agreement renewed

In Venice, the partnership between four art and culture institutions in the Dorsoduro Sestiere, which took the form of an agreement aimed at the mutual promotion of museum offerings and the implementation of tourist flows in that area of the Dorsodur...
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The work of art and the reproduction of its images. An open debate

The question of the relationship between the work of art and its image, understood as an instrument of communication, dissemination and knowledge, is a figure of great theoretical interest, a symptom that imposes itself on our attention in the presen...
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The Royal Rooms of the Correr Museum: the private apartments where the Bonapartes, the Habsburgs and the Savoy lived

The Royal Halls of the Royal Palace of Venice, twenty rooms that today run one after the other in a scenic succession, and which constituted the original private apartments used by the members of three ruling houses, such as the Bonapartes, the Habsb...
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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection opens its doors for free to Venetians and students for a week

From November 16 to 21, 2023, on the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of Health, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection will open its doors free of charge to citizens. Residents or those born in the municipality of Venice, residents of the 44 municipalitie...
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Venice, the Hall of the Four Doors at the Doge's Palace will be restored. One year of work and open construction site

Restoration work is scheduled to begin in mid-November on the Hall of the Four Doors in the Doge's Palace in Venice, one of the most important rooms in the palace, a place of high representation, antechamber and link between the rooms where the supr...
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Restoration of Venice's Royal Gardens wins Europa Nostra 2023 award

The Venice Royal Gardens restoration and conservation project has been awarded the European Cultural Heritage Prize / Europa Nostra Award 2023, an award established by the European Commission in 2002 with the aim of celebrating and promoting the mult...
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Venice, inmates make shoppers from the tarpaulin that covered Titian's Assumption

During the restoration of Titian 'sAssumption in the Basilica dei Frari, which lasted four years and was entirely financed by Save Venice, the altarpiece and marble frame had been covered by a large PVC tarpaulin that stretched more than fifty square...
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Giambattista Tiepolo's Apotheosis of the Pisans, the masterpiece of eighteenth-century fiction

Nestled along the banks of the Naviglio del Brenta canal, just a short walk from the center of the town of Stra, stands the "queen of the villas of the Veneto," Villa Pisani, a majestic example of an 18th-century patrician residence, erected beginnin...
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