The sculpture of Venice at the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery
Venetian sculptural art has often remained in the shadow of painting, but it represents an important testimony of the history of the city. The exhibition set up at the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at the Ca d’Oro proves this. Let’s find out together
Admiring the faces of Renaissance Venetians, scrutinizing their profiles, poses and details of their clothes, measuring themselves with their presence, albeit sculptural: all this is possible until October 30th at the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at the Ca ‘d’Oro.
THE MAGNIFICENT OF VENETIAN RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE
The exhibition is set up in the splendid rooms on the main floor of the museum From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria, 1450 – 1600. 150 years of sculpture in the Republic of Venicethe first major Venetian exhibition dedicated to Venetian sculpture by Totò Bergamo RossiDirector of Venetian Heritage And Claudia Cremonini, director of the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at the Ca ‘d’Oro. Organized and financed by Venetian Heritage Foundationin collaboration with the Regional Directorate for Museums of Veneto.
It is a unique opportunity to admire the works of masters who worked in Venice and in the territories of the Republic between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries: among them Donatello, Antonio Rizzo, Pietro, Tullio And Antonio Lombardo until Jacopo Sansovino And Alessandro Vittoria. Along the way, in addition to an already known work, there are sculptures shown to the public for the first time, thanks to loans from national institutions (including the Galleria Estense in Modena), international and private collections.
The aim of the exhibition is to offer the most complete testimony of the sculptural art of the period, characterized by a great wealth of materials, by strong expressive potential of the figures and by variegated aesthetic declinations, which have nothing to envy to the magnificence of Venetian Renaissance painting. .
THE ROLE OF THE GIORGIO FRANCHETTI GALLERY AT THE CA ‘D’ORO FOR ART IN VENICE
With the exhibition From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria, 1450 – 1600. 150 years of sculpture in the Republic of Venice, the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at the Ca ‘d’Oro reaffirms its vocation as one of the most important museum institutions in the city for the quality of the works from different eras and types. This address has always been a point of reference in Venice for private collecting merged into public collections and a place par excellence for the recovery of sculptural masterpieces from abandoned places. “This exhibition marks the full return of Ca ‘d’Oro to the great Venetian exhibition circuit and we are very pleased that this is taking place with an initiative, planned to coincide with the Biennial of Artwhich links its conception to the particularity of the collections and offers the opportunity to enhance an important sector of the museum heritage, closely linked to collecting and to the memory of the territory “he claims Claudia Cremoninico-curator of the exhibition and director of the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at the Ca ‘d’Oro. “The venue – it seemed to us – could not be more appropriate for an exhibition on sculpture. The latter, together with the pervasive presence of marble, plays a key role in the ideal connection between inside and outside, between the extraordinary ornamental apparatus of the Palazzo and the art collections housed in it “.
“Venetian Heritage is proud to once again support and promote the cultural heritage of the Serenissima”declares Totò Bergamo Rossico-curator of the exhibition and director of the Venetian Heritage foundation. “This exhibition project aims to enhance the too underestimated Venetian sculpture and at the same time the Ca ‘d’Oro museum, which at the end of this exhibition will be undergoing a general restyling and exhibition update by Venetian Heritage”.