“Detourism: La newsletter di Venezia”, the official Town of Venice Tourism Office Newsletter, takes us to discover the magnificent arts of the Serenissima! Enjoy your reading!
Glass, lace, costume, fashion and design.
The history of Venice is also the history of its arts and manufacturing industries.
The best known of them are certainly glass and lace, respectively featured in the museums of Murano and Burano, but Venice has also been a trend-setter in costume, applied arts and fashion. Inside their eleven museums, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia contains the milestones and artefacts of a unique history, going from daily life in the lagoon to the splendour of the European courts, where Venetian artists and artisans would help build the grandeur of the reigning dynasties, as well as of nobles and merchants.
The journey through museums unfolds from the origins to contemporary high design productions, with the option of planning dedicated itineraries, through the stories of people and cultures, merchants and artists, works and inventions. The journey goes from the ancient maritime maps of the Correr Museum, representing the world of commanders and intellectuals, to the dazzling 18th-century chandeliers forged in Murano, now hanging from the ceilings of the Museum of Glass and the Museum of 18th-Century Venice – Ca’ Rezzonico and the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo, today the Study Centre of the History of Textiles, Costumes and Perfume, housing the legacy of the former International Centre of Arts and Costume at Palazzo Grassi and other ancient and modern textile collections.
A common thread runs through the collections: the Correr Museum preserves the ancient women’s stilt-like platform shoes known as ‘chopins’, while the Glass Museum houses a collection of buttons alongside pearls and murrina glass beads, and the Lace Museum displays the wedding dress for the wedding of Angela Maria Crespi with Count Franco Ratti from Desio, with a large veil made by Burano lace makers. The perfect place for glass art lovers is certainly the Glass Museum, but a visit to the International Gallery of Modern Art in Ca’ Pesaro is also a must-see: next to Klimt’s Judith and The Thinker by Rodin, the Young Ladies by Casorati and Kounellis’ ‘Poor Art’, the Carraro collection brings together some of the most beautiful glass pieces from the 20th century.
[fonte: La newsletter di Venezia, N° 99/2020 del 19.10.2020]
[immagine: Coppa Barovier, ca. 1470-1480, Musei del Vetro, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia]
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Special thanks to the Councillor for Tourism for having enthusiastically welcomed this new important collaboration between TGS Eurogroup and the Tourism Office of the Town of Venice and for giving us the precious opportunity to publish on the pages of this blog some extracts from this newsletter, both in Italian and in English.
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