From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria: a major exhibition on Venetian sculpture in Venice

From April 22 to October 30, 2022, Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at Ca’ d’Oro in Venice presents a major exhibition dedicated to Venetian sculpture, entitled From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria, 1450 - 1600. 150 Years of Sculpture in the Republic of Venice. Curated by Toto Bergamo Rossi, director of Venetian Heritage, and Claudia Cremonini, director of the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at Ca’ d’Oro, the exhibition is organized and funded by the Venetian Heritage Foundation, in collaboration with the Veneto Regional Museums Directorate.

Set up on the palace’s piano nobile, the exhibition will bring into dialogue works by artists who worked in Venice and the Republic’s territories between the 15th and 17th centuries, such as Donatello, Antonio Rizzo, Pietro, Tullio and Antonio Lombardo up to Jacopo Sansovino and Alessandro Vittoria, proposing, in addition to works already known, some sculptures never seen in museum contexts. The aim of the exhibition is to make the public understand the interpretative variety of sculptural technique, highlighting the wealth of materials, expressive potential and aesthetic declinations within an art-historical context that often prefers painting in the Venetian context.

The works will be present thanks to important loans from national and international institutions and private collections; the exhibition itinerary will address the most significant moments of sculptural production in the Venetian context from the early Renaissance to the late Mannerist period, to emphasize the complexity of stylistic and iconographic contributions converging on Venice in years of strong renewal for local figurative culture.

“This exhibition marks Ca’ d’Oro’s full return to the great Venetian exhibition circuit, and we are very pleased that this is happening with an initiative, scheduled to coincide with the Art Biennale, that links its conception to the peculiarity of the collections and offers the opportunity to enhance an important sector of the museum’s heritage, which is linked inseparably to collecting and memory from the territory,” says Claudia Cremonini. “The venue could not have been 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 interior and exterior, between the extraordinary ornamental apparatus of the Palace and the art collections housed in it.”

"Venetian Heritage is proud to support and promote, once again, the cultural heritage of the Serenissima," said Toto Bergamo Rossi. "This exhibition project aims to enhance the too underestimated Venetian sculpture and at the same time the prestigious Ca’ d’Oro museum, which at the end of this exhibition will undergo a general restyling and exhibition update funded by Venetian Heritage."

The exhibition also intends to accompany the public on a widespread itinerary around the city: in fact, special signage has been designed to indicate the presence of sculpted masterpieces preserved inside Venetian churches and museums.

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From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria: a major exhibition on Venetian sculpture in Venice

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