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1471 painter and print maker Albrecht Dürer was born in Nürnberg Germany
1844 French painter Henri Rousseau was born in Laval.
The exhibition presented at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice, Italy, is curated by Lionello Puppi and Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini and arises from the fruitful collaboration of three institutions. After opening at the m.a.x. museo di Chiasso late-winter this year and moving to the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome in April, the exhibition will arrive in Venice by July, being displayed in the rooms of Ca’ Rezzonico, providing an opportunity to explore some artistic materials that are surprisingly little-known, but of great significance for the study of the history of art. Copper plates and prints – the first of which all in the possession of the Fondazione Civici Musei di Venezia and now carefully restored by the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica – will be placed alongside each other so as to evaluate the unparalleled quality achieved by this extraordinary and refined artist, an innovator in this medium as in others, thanks to his enthusiastic attempt for the finest technical results and to his rare ability. And it is with the exceptional nature of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s copper plates that the exhibition reveals the originality of its scientific intentions, documenting the Venetian painter’s great imagination: a genuine surprise, whose artistic and scientific value has attracted the attention of scholars and the curiosity of the general public only in recent years.
Image: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. La Sacra Famiglia attraversa il lago in barca
Ca' Rezzonico
Dorsoduro 3136 - Venice, Italy
Hours: 1.XI – 31.III 10 - 17 / 1.IV – 31.X 10 - 18
Closed on Tuesdays and on 25th December, 1st January, 1st May
Admission € 6,50 / concessions € 4,50 euro
Free entrance for residents
http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it
