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| Foundations and associations active in Venice for the safeguard and diffusion of culture and art. |
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| Venezia Cinquecento. History of Art and Cultural Studies 
Venezia Cinquecento is the
website of the six-monthly
history and art magazine that
goes by the same name,
published by Bulzoni Editore
since 1991. The site is not
an online version of the
magazine, aiming more to be a
powerful means for support
and renovation, permitting to
give more space to book and
exposition reviews, events,
meetings, seminaries and
news. An analytic index of
the firs ten years of the
magazine is also in the
process of being completed.
http://www.veneziacinquecento.it - [ Link & Google PageRank:  3/10 ][ Last update: 2006-05-11 ] |
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| Marghera on line
Marghera, the first mainland
town you meet when leaving
Venice, and it is the seat of
several chemical plants that
contribute greatly to its
economy, but that pose a
serious threat to the natural
environment's safety and to
the inhabitants' health.
Marghera Online is a website
made and maintained by the
citizens of Marghera, with a
weekly newsletter, that wants
to inform about Marghera's
peculiar problems and about
their fight for a healthier
city where to live in.
http://www.margheraonline.it - [ Google PageRank:  not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-24 ] |
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| The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation
The Bevilacqua La Masa
Foundation was born in 1898,
soon after the Venice
Biennale, and takes its name
after its founder, Felicita
Bevilacqua, widow of the La
Masa general. She donated her
family mansion, Ca' Pesaro,
to the Venice Municipality,
with the condition that it
should be used for the good
of the city's artistic
culture. Today the
Foundation's main seat is in
San Marco, but it continues
on being a reference point
for the young artists it
brings out and patronizes.
http://www.bevilacqualamasa.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-12 ] |
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| The Campiello Literary Prize
The Premio Letterario
Campiello (Campiello Literary
Prize) was instituted in the
year 1962 by Veneto region
industrialists, and the first
winner, the year after, was
Primo Levi with his “La
tregua” (The truce). The
Campiello Prize represented a
new kind of contact between
economy and culture in a
creative and stimulating
field such as literature is,
and is now one of the most
prestigious prizes in Italy,
as much as an instrument of
cultural promotion and
diffusion thanks to which the
industrialists give their
contribution to the
development of quality
literature.
http://www.premiocampiello.org - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-12 ] |
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| The Giorgio Cini Foundation
The Giorgio Cini Foundation
is a non-profit cultural
institution created by Count
Vittorio Cini on 20 April
1951 in memory of his son
Giorgio, who died in an
airplane crash in 1949, and
legally recognised by
presidential decree on the
12th of July of that same
year. Its initial mission was
to restore the island of San
Giorgio Maggiore, and to
create an international
cultural centre, re-inserting
the island into city life.
Now the Foundation
concentrates on educational,
cultural, artistic and
research goals.
http://www.cini.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-12 ] |
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| The Italian Cultural Heritage Association
Cultural heritage is,
according to Italian law,
what composes Italy's
historical, artistic,
monumental, demo-ethno-
anthropological patrimony,
and constitutes evidence of
civilization value. Only a
few years ago did the country
start to recognise this
resource as a mass phenomenon
with a great potentiality.
Beni Culturali is a no-profit
association whose objective
is to protect, promote,
valorize and diffuse Italy's
rich cultural, historical and
artistic heritage.
http://bbcc.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ] [ Owner e-mail contact  ][ Last update: 2006-05-12 ] |
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| The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
The Peggy Guggenheim
Foundation is the most
important museum in Italy and
one of the most important in
Europe for modern art,
especially from the first
half of the 20th century, and
was born thanks to the
patronizing work of Peggy
Guggenheim, who is buried in
the museum's garden.
Relatively small, the museum
nonetheless hosts important
treasures of art by the
greatest masters, from Dali
to Picasso, from Magritte to
the Italian futurists, and is
a must see for all modern art
lovers.
http://www.guggenheim.venice.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-08-11 ] |
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| The Querini Stampalia Foundation
The Querini Stampalia
Foundation is born in 1869
thanks to Giovanni Querini
Stampalia, last descendant of
the noble Venetian family. It
represents the only instance
of a family from the ancient
Venetian nobility whose
patrimony has been fully
conserved until today: their
mansion, library, archive,
furniture and artistic
collection are still intact.
Their 16th century building,
located between the Rialto
Bridge and San Marco Square,
hosts an important library
and a museum.
http://vocabola.tomato.it/querini/index.php - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-12 ] |
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| The Querini Stampalia Foundation
The Querini Stampalia
Foundation, one of the most
ancient in Italy, was founded
in 1868 by Giovanni Querini
Stampalia, who, in his last
will, expressed his wish to
create an institution that
would “promote the cult of
good studies and useful
disciplines”. His wish was
granted by the Foundation's
activity, whose main
objective nowadays is still
the formation and development
of the human person through
the promotion of art and
culture in its every form.
http://www.querinistampalia.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-12 ] |
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| The Venice Biennale Foundation
In 1893 the Venetian City
Council, headed by its major
Riccardo Selvatico, passed a
resolution to set up a
biennial exhibition of
Italian art, to be
inaugurated in April the
following year. In time, La
Biennale has incorporated not
only “classic”art like
painting and sculpture, but
architecture, music, dance,
theatre, and cinema with the
worldwide-famous Venice Film
Festival, and is one of the
most prestigious artistic
events during the year,
attracting thousands of
visitors and artists.
http://www.labiennale.org - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-12 ] |
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