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| Ca' d'Oro
Ca' d'Oro (meaning “house of
gold”) once used to be the
home of an ancient noble
family since the fifteenth
century. Today it hosts the
Giorgio Franchetti Gallery,
named after the baron who
bought the building in 1894.
In this house, built in the
Gothic Venetian style, it is
possible to admire several
paintings of the ancient
Veneto school, such as the
famous St. Sebastian by
Andrea Mantegna, as well as
Tuscan and Flemish paintings,
bronze sculptures, portraits
of the Renaissance and other
pieces of art.
http://www.cadoro.org - [ Google PageRank:  not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-03 ] |
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| Cultura Spettacolo a Venezia
Culturaspettacolovenezia.it
has, since 2001, tried to be
a place on the Web that,
while promoting events
organized by the Cultura e
Spettacolo section of the
Venice Municipality, has
always tried to be different.
Not limiting itself to show
endless lists composed by
mere “What, how and when”,
its effort tends towards
giving the reader several
occasions to stop by, to
deepen his examination, to
reflect, avoiding the danger
of being just a copy of so
many similar sites online.
http://www.culturaspettacolovenezia.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-03 ] |
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| Greek Icon Museum
In what once was the home of
the Greek Orthodox
Confraternity in Venice,
today hosting the Hellenic
Institute for Bizantine and
Post-Bizantine Studies, has
place a museum which is
unique in its kind,
exhibiting ancient and
precious Bizantine and post-
Bizantine icons, opened in
1959 and radically restored
in 1999.The collection, based
on donations by members of
the Confraternity and
integrated by others over
time, also includes painted
codices, sacred vestments and
handicraft objects.
http://www.istitutoellenico.org/museo/index.html - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-03 ] |
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| Cultural Properties
Italy has a millennia-long
history, and has always been
at the very heart of culture
and civilization. This means
that today it has an immense
patrimony of cultural and
artistic properties,
particularly well displayed
in its cities of art of which
Venice is one of the most
outstanding examples. This is
the site of the Italian
Cultural Properties, an
associations that deals with
the conservation, protection
and management of the
precious cultural properties
of which Italy is so rich.
http://www.beni-culturali.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ] [ Owner e-mail contact  ][ Last update: 2006-05-03 ] |
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| Palazzo Grassi
Palazzo Grassi was built on
the Grand Canal between 1748
and 1772 for the wealthy
Bolognese Grassi family,
right before the fall of the
Republic in 1797. The
building has passed various
owners, until, in 1983, it
was purchased by Gianni
Agnelli's FIAT, restored and
modernized. From then on, and
until 2005, Palazzo Grassi
has hosted some of the most
important and prestigious
artistic exhibitions in
Venice, and, after a further
remodernization, has recently
re-opened to the public.
http://www.palazzograssi.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-04 ] |
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| Accademia Galleries in Venice
The Accademia galleries
constitute an important
collection of Venetian
paintings dating from the
fourteenth to the eighteenth
centuries. Works from the
most important masters are
conserved there, including
paintings by Bellini,
Giorgione, Carpaccio,
Tiziano, Tintoretto, Veronese
and Tiepolo. On the second
floor there is the so-called
Quadreria, hosting temporary
exhibitions of works from
the museum's storage rooms.
http://www.gallerieaccademia.org - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-03 ] |
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| Venice Hellenic Institute
The Hellenic Institute for
Bizantine and Post-Bizantine
Studies of Venice is the only
Greek culture research
institute outside Greece.
Founded in 1951, following an
agreement between Italy and
Greece. Research in libraries
and archives is carried on by
Greek graduates, who benefit
from a merit award to prepare
their specialization theses
on Greek history, art and
literature under the Venetian
domination, basing on Italian
and Venetian archives.
http://www.istitutoellenico.org - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-03 ] |
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| The Jewish museum in Venice
The Jewish ghetto in Venice
is the most ancient of
Europe. Founded in 1953 by
the Jewish community of
Venice, the Jewish museum of
Venice is small, but contains
a rich patrimony of works
witnessing their history and
traditions. The objects
displayed have been made
between the sixteenth and the
nineteenth centuries, and
include important examples of
goldsmith crafts, such as
silver wares, and textile
manifacture such as covers
for decorating the Torah.
http://www.museoebraico.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-04 ] |
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| Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
The Marciana (meaning Saint
Mark's) Library was the first
public library in Venice,
founded in 1468 thanks to the
Bessarione Cardinal and his
donation of codices and
manuscripts to the city. It
was not until 1537 that it
became possibile to erige a
building worthy of hosting
such a gift. The Marciana
library owns today more than
a million books, many of
which are antique and rare
and possess a priceless value.
http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-03 ] |
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| Oriental Art Museum
The Oriental Art Museum, set
in the ancient home of the
Pesaro family in San Stae,
represents one of the most
important collections of
Oriental art in Europe. The
museum is almost entirely
based off
the collection that Enrico
di Borbone, Count of Bardi,
acquired during his travels
around the world, between
1887 and 1889. The pieces,
that have recently undergone
accurate restorations, come
for the most part from Edo-
period Japan (1600-1868), but
Chinese and Indonesian
objects can be seen as well.
http://www.arteorientale.org - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-03 ] |
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| Scala Contarini del Bovolo in Venice
Venezia is often said to
have “hidden” museums,
constituted by a patrimony of
monuments built by charity
associations that were at the
time embellished with
artistic masterworks of
architecture and painting.
Such is the case of Scala
Contarini del Bovolo,
Ospedaletto, the Crociferi
oratory, and the Zitelle
church. Contrary to what many
people think, it is possible
to visit these monuments at
any time of year, booking
your visits at the call
center of IRE, the
association that manages such
places today.
http://www.scalabovolo.org - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-04 ] |
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| Musei Civici Veneziani
Venice , with all its
treasures of art and culture
accumulated during a long
history, has plenty of
museums, probably more than
the casual visitor could ever
imagine. Musei Civici
Veneziani is an association
that brings together all
these museums, hosting
masterworks of inestimable
importance. It is also
responsible for overseeing
the conservation, study and
promotion of the vast city's
artistic and cultural
heritage, contributing to the
preservation of beauty and
identity.
http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it - [ Google PageRank: not actived ][ Last update: 2006-05-03 ] |
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