VENICE ART BIENNALE
Giardini, Arsenale and in various other locations around the city.

53° BIENNALE D'ARTE


BIENNALE CINEMA
67th Venice International Film Festival

Official website: www.labiennale.org

The Palazzo Fortuny Museum
San Marco 3958,
30124 Venezia
Tel. ++39041 5200995
Fax. ++39041 5223088

The building retains the rooms and structures created by Fortuny, together with tapestries and collections. The working environment of Mariano Fortuny is represented through precious wall-hangings, paintings, and the famous lamps – all objects that testify to the artist’s inspiration and still give count of his eclectic work and of his presence on the intellectual and artistic scene at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Website: Musei Civici Veneziani

Museo Correr
San Marco 52,
30124 Venezia
Entrance: Piazza San Marco, Ala Napoleonica, Scalone monumentale
Phone. ++39041 2405211
Fax ++39041 5200935

The Museum is laid out in various sections that offer a fascinating insight into the Art and History of Venice. The first section occupies the Napoleonic Wing itself, a nineteenth-century palace for kings and emperors; here the sumptuous Neo-classical Rooms house a noteworthy collection of works by the greatest sculptor of the age, Antonio Canova (1757-1822). Then, one passes into the Procuratie Nuove, which were designed by the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552-1616) and once housed some of the most important civic authorities within the Republic of Venice. The spacious rooms now contain collections that document various aspects of Venetian History – from daily life to public instutions, from naval achievements to local festivities. Beyond these rooms begins the exhibition of the Art Collection, which continues on the second floor. The period covered ranges from the very earliest days of Venetian painting right up to the sixteenth century, with many of the works on display being incomparable masterpieces.

Website: Musei Civici Veneziani

Palazzo Mocenigo
Santa Croce 1992,
30135 Venezia
Phone ++39 041721798

The collection is laid out in the rooms of the first piano nobile of the palazzo, with an ample selection of garments and accessories.
As far as possible, the pieces are laid out in such a way as to illustrate changing tastes in both fashion and furnishings, underlining analogies in colour, line and decorative motif between these two related areas of design.
Mainly of Venetian origin, the garments and accessories are in “worked” fabrics which are often embellished with lace and embroidery. They are a fine illustration of the skill of those numerous artisans (weavers, tailors, lacemakers, embroiderers, etc.) who made such a contribution to that refined luxury and elegance for which the Venetians of the day were famous.

Website: Musei Civici Veneziani

Ca' Pesaro
Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna
Santa Croce 2076,
30135 Venezia
Phone ++39 041721127
Fax. ++39 0415241075

The International Gallery of Modern Art contains important nineteenth- and twentieth-century collections of paintings and sculptures, including masterpieces by Klimt, Chagall and remarkable works by such artists as Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse and Moore, as well as a rich selection of works by Italian artists and an important section of graphic art.
The lay-out has been completely redesigned, along with the information-apparatus, and it provides an illuminating introduction to a crucial period in art-history.

Website: Musei Civici Veneziani

Cà Rezzonico
Museo del Settecento veneziano
Dorsoduro 3136,
30123 Venezia
Phone and Fax ++39041 2410100

The visit to the Museum Collection proper begins at Giorgio Massari’s large ceremonial staircase on the side of the palace opposite the Grand Canal. On the first floor a total of eleven rooms contain paintings, sculptures, frescoed ceilings and collections of eighteenth-century furnishings. The second floor opens with the portego [the long central hall typical of Venetian palaces] in which there are two early works by Canaletto; the rooms dedicated to the work of Pietro Longhi and the Giandomenico Tieopolo frescoes originally on the walls of Villa Zianigo are not to be missed. The third floor contains not only the three rooms of an old pharmacy [Farmacia Ai do San Marchi] but also the noteworthy collection of paintings bequeathed by Egidio Martini.

Website: Musei Civici Veneziani

Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Castello 5252 - 30122 Venezia
Phone 0412711411
Fax 0412711445

This is the home and museum of an ancient aristocratic Venetian family, the Querini. It holds more than 400 paintings of Venetian, Italian and foreign schools. This house, located in Campo Santa Maria Formosa, next to the church of the same name, is witness to the Venetian style of life of the XVIII century.

Official website: www.querinistampalia.it

Palazzo Grassi
San Marco - San Samuele, 3231 - Venezia

The architecture of Palazzo Grassi is attributed to Giorgio Massari (1687-1766), who was at that period finishing Ca’Rezzonico on the opposite side of the Grand Canal. It was commissioned by the Grassi family, originally from Chioggia, who had bought a plot of land in a magnificent location; its trapezoidal form offered the added advantage of providing a long façade on the canal. It is believed that work began in 1740 or 1748, possibly being completed by 1758 or, more probably, in 1772. This was the last palazzo to be built in Venice before the fall of the Republic.

Official website: www.palazzograssi.it

Palazzo Ducale
San Marco 1,
30124 Venezia
Ingresso per il pubblico: Porta del Frumento, Piazzetta San Marco
Phone ++39 0412715911
Fax ++39 0415285028

A masterpiece of Gothic Architecture, the Doge’s Palace is an accumulation of layer upon layer of building work and ornamentation, comprising the original foundations, the fourteenth/fifteenth-century structure, sizeable Renaissance additions and opulent Mannerist details.

Website: Musei Civici Veneziani

Museo di Storia Naturale
Santa Croce 1730,
30135 Venezia
Phone ++39041 2750206
Fax. ++39041 721000

Comprising more than two million items, the vast and delicate collection of the Museum consists of the original core collection and the various important acquisitions, donations and loans made over time. There are numerous zoological collections dedicated, for example, to birds, molluscs and insects (the hymenoptera collection is one of the most important in the world).

Website: Musei Civici Veneziani

Gallerie dell'Accademia
Campo della Carità
Dorsoduro n. 1050 - Venezia
CALL CENTER
(+39) 041 5200345

A very rich collection of Venetian paintings from Veneto as well, from the Bizantine and Gothic fourteenth century to the artists of the Renaissance, Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Veronese, Tintoretto and Tiziano until Gianbattista Tiepolo and the Vedutisti of the eighteenth century, Canaletto, Guardi, Bellotto, Longhi. These artists will influence the whole history of European painting.

Official website: www.gallerieaccademia.org