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Leonardo: The Vitruvian Man between Art and Science - Accademia Galleries

 
Back after seven years from the time it was the last shown at Venetian museum where where it had been kept since 1822 is Leonardo's celebrated drawing depicting the ideal human proportions according the canon of proportions as set by Roman architect Vitruvio Pollio (2nd century A.D.).

This workhas been subject of a recent study that has examined its two main aspects, scientific and artistic, and is illustrated and elaborated in this show thanks to an impressive educational and audio-visual system.

www.galleriaaccademia.org

Prendergast in Italy - Peggy Guggenheim Collection

  
is exhibition will assemble for the first time the major works by American artist, Maurice Prendergast, during two trips to Italy (1898-99 and 1911-12): a body of work that is one of the most attractive and revealing in the story of American art. The exhibition brings together approximately seventy-five of his Italian watercolors, oils, and monotypes as well as photographs, films, guidebooks, and travel advertisements that situate the work within the new visual culture that Americans had embraced by 1900. The presentation of Prendergast’s works in Italy where they were created offers a new point of interest, and contributes to the comprehension of what characterized Modernism in the early 20th century and of the role Prendergast played in the development of Modern art in America. The exhibition is organized by the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in partnership with The Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois

Palladio and/in Venice - Museo Correr

 
The exhibition is part of the initiatives promoted and financed by the Veneto Regional Authorities, coordinated by the Regional Committee for the celebrations marking the five hundredth anniversary of Palladio’s birth. Organized in collaboration with the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, it goes back over Palladio’s steps in Venice and his not always univocal relations with the Venetian world, its government, intellectuals, clergymen, religious orders, charitable and devotional organisations and publishers. It includes over 300 works – printed publications, manuscripts, documents and drawings – that are testimony of Palladio’s Venetian surroundings and his work in the city (on the one hand his theoretical work, on the other, his designs, carried out, disappeared). Particular importance is given to Palladio’s intervention on the redefinition of the symbolic and unique urban fabric of Venice, Saint Mark’s Basin, with the façades of San Giorgio Maggiore and the votive Church of the Redentore and the Zitelle complex on the island of the Giudecca, creating an effect that was of extraordinary renovative strength. 

Diocesan Museum - Torcello: Venice's origins between west and east

  
The shows looks at the origins of Venice and its eternal ties with the orient of Europe, narratig with the use of 100 masterpieces the evolution of art which originated in Byzantium and found in the Vencie Lagoon an ideal environment to set root and grow, establishing new forms and signs destined to beocme extremely popular.

The exibition on view at the Dicesan Museum and the nearby recently reclaimed and restored beautiful exhibition space at the od Church of San Filippo e Giacomo - opens with the early years of Torcello as Lagoon capital, making the first sculptures around the lagoon. It continues with the extraordinary displayof mosaics; precious objects related to liturgy (illuminated codices, cerimonial reliquraries and crosses) numeros icons which arrived here mainly after 1204 year, adorned with stones, enamel and precious metals, or made noble materials such as ivory, miero-mosaic and gold-ans silver-threaded silks.

Open daily 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

info: www.millenniotorcello.it

Day of the Madonna della Salute

Day of the Madonna della Salute. Saturday November 21st. Traditional procession and people holiday commemrating an old vow made by the city to Virgin Mary during the terrible plague of 1630.

Aponton bridge is set up for the occasion across the Grand Canal to allow a Sunday crossing from the St MArk's area. Program includes High Mass and guided tours of te church and its art treasures.

Open during the holiday are traditional votive stands and food stands offering Venetian specialities.

Simple Minds 30 Years Live 24th July

To celebrate their thirty-year, arriving in Venice the Simple Minds. The legendary Scottish group will perform for the first time in Piazza San Marco, 24 July 2009, and will present the new album "Soul Graffiti" with its great successes.

Andrea Bocelli on Saint Mark's square 1st July

To direct the Maestro will be once again the great orchestra conductor Eugene Kohn, personalities from the world of classical music who has worked with all major orchestras and performers of the opera world. The charm of this place and this city unique in the world and the extraordinary voice of Andrea Bocelli will make this concert a unique event and a must for those who love music and this extraordinary artist

53rd International Art Exhibition from June 7th to November 22nd 2009

Biennale Art 53rd International Art Exhibition The 53rd International Art Exhibition will run June 7th to November 22nd, 2009. The history of the Venice Biennale began in 1895, when the first Art Exhibition took place. The latest edition of the event, the 52nd International Art Exhibition, attracted 320,000 visitors from the opening on June 10th to the closing day, November 21st, 2007. This has been the most attended Biennale of the past twenty-five years.

SMS (Saint Mark's Square) Venice 2009

SMS Venice (Saint Mark’s Square) came to life in 2008 through the united intent of The City of Venice, The Department for Architectural Landscape Heritage of Venice & the Lagoon and Fran Tomasi, events organizer. Supported strongly by the community of Venice, on behalf of the City, the project aims to raise public awareness by promoting, with the support of sponsors through donations via telephone and the web, a campaign to collect funds for the protection and conservation of the City. The privileged destination of every tourist for its unique complex of inimitable monuments, that make it a renowned World Heritage Site. This multi annual project, with far reaching cultural aims, will be conveyed through various forms of communication, donation collections and relief funds. Offering to the public, by means of technology, a calendar of events working towards the unique international relief for the restoration of such an exceptional location as Venice.

Futurism 100: Abstractions

Correr Museum, 5th June to 4 October 2009

Second of three shows presented in Rovereto (Mart), Venice and Milano (Palazzo Reale) in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the movement born in 1909 with the manifesto of Tommaso Filippo Marinetti.

Info tel 041 274 76 07 14 www.museiciviciveneziani.it