Three of Giorgione most famous works, The Old Lady (1506), The Naked (1508) and his most famous masterpiece, The Tempest (1507-08), will be on display for over an other month in one of Venice most unique buildings, Palazzo Grimani near Campo Santa Maria Formosa.
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Exposition of Giorgione now until November 01st!!!
Monday, October 25th, 2010Palazzo Grassi: Language and Art – Saying the Unsayable
Thursday, October 21st, 2010 
On Thursday October 28th 2010 at Palazzo Grassi at 5pm
The cycle Stories of Art continues with a meeting with Michael Cunningham.
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Gottlieb is the new guest of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Thursday, October 21st, 2010 
The Guggenheim Foundation presents the first Italian retrospective of Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) who is considered, with Mark Rothko and Arshile Gorky, one of the pioneers of the Abstract Expressionism in the lands overseas.
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Exhibition le Arti di Piranesi Architetto, incisore, antiquario, vedutista, designer.
Monday, August 23rd, 2010 
On show works of the great eighteenth century Venetian artist Giambattista Piranesi as presentation of many of his arts: architect, antiquarian, archaeologist, engraver, designer and taste creator.
Along with the 250 original prints there are reproductions of many of the objects projected and never created by G. Piranesi such as a vase, a candelabrum, a teapot, a chair, two tripods, an altar and a marvellous chimney.
There will also be the 3d simulation of “Carceri d’Invenzione”, a model made by De Lucchi of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Priorato in Rome (the only construction Piranesi created in his life) and 3D views of Rome by Gabriele Basilico, that are the photographer’s tribute to the great master.
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Signum Foundation at Palazzo Dona’
Friday, August 13th, 2010 
Since 2009, at the cultural map of Venice has been added a new reference : Palazzo Donà in Campo San Polo, centre of the polish foundation “Signum Foundation”. In Poland, created in 2002 by Jarosław and Hanna Przyborowski, the foundation does charity for poor children with the help of some artists and try to educate in all over the country. Palazzo Donà is the first permanent exhibition centre in Europe.
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Alla Deriva – Sculptures by Justin Peyser
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 
The sculptures of Justin Peyser can be admired at the XVII century palace Ca’ Zenobio, close to Campo Santa Margherita in Venice. Justin lives and works in New york city. He studied Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard College and Painting in Bologna and New York. (more…)
Giacomo Favretto at Museo Correr in Venice
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 
The opearas of the venetian painter Giacomo Favretto (1849 – 1887) are finally back in town, after more than 100 year from the last exposition. With more than 80 operas the exibithion explain his artistical life and the relation with the oter artists of the ‘800.
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Madonnina con Bambino di Ca’ Foscari
Thursday, July 1st, 2010 
The “Madonna con Bambino” (”Holy Mary with Child”) is a mural painting discovered, or better discovered again, during the renovating works of Ca’ Foscari finished in 2005 and situated in the main hall of Palazzo Giustinian dei vescovi, set in a niche over a wooden door.
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Manlio Alzetta in Scoletta San Zaccaria
Thursday, July 1st, 2010 
You will be able to see this exhibition until september with many changes of works in exposition.
Organised by the “Centro d’Arte San Vidal – U.C.A.I. of Venice” in Campo San Zaccaria near by the prestigious and old Church, the manifestation has as title “Arte Estate a San Vidal” (”Art in Summer in San Vidal”) and shows 48 artists who propose their
works in which different languages, fascinating styles, sing life and nature, stories from yesterday and futuristic thoughts overwrought by fears and hopes that the modern society rattle without rest.
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