Ca' Pesaro
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| Established | 1902 |
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| Location | Santa Croce 2076, 30135 Venice, Italy |
| Type | Art museum, Historic site |
| Director | Silvio Fuso |
| Website | capesaro.visitmuve.it |
Ca' Pesaro is a
Grand Canal of Venice, Italy.[2] Today it is one of the 11 museums run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
system.
The building was originally designed by
colossal columns and colonnettes flanking arch-headed windows, reinterpreting a motif of Jacopo Sansovino, Longhena creates the impression of double loggias extending across the main Grand Canal frontage, above a boldly rusticated
basement.
The building
The palace was built in the second half of the 17th century for the noble and wealthy
Pittoni, Crosato, Trevisani and Girolamo Brusaferro. The collections of the Pesaro family, as documented in the archives, must have been even more remarkable, including works by artists such as Vivarini, Carpaccio, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, as well as other famous Venetian artists of the 17th and 18th centuries. This great heritage was completely dispersed by 1830, the year of the death of the last Pesaro family member, who auctioned most of the collection in London. The palace was passed on firstly to the Gradenigo family and then to the Armenian Mekhitarist Fathers, who used it as a college. It was finally bought by the Bevilacqua family, and became the property of Duchess Felicita Bevilacqua La Masa
. It was she who decreed the present usage of the building, bequeathing it to the city in 1898, as a museum of Modern Art.
In 1902, thanks to the bequest of the Duchess, the city council decided to use the palace to host the
. The collection was enriched over the years by further acquisitions and donations.Modern art museum
Ca' Pesaro houses 19th and 20th century collections of paintings and sculptures, as well as a section on graphic art.[3]
- Room 1: Works by Venetian painters of the second half of the 19th century, such as Ippolito Caffi, Guglielmo Ciardi, Giacomo Favretto, and Pietro Fragiacomo are on display, testifying to the city's art variety in the 19th and the early 20th century.
- Room 2: This room brings together 19th century Italian works: there are paintings by Pellizza, Gaetano Previati, and Angelo Morbelli. The city of Venice was stirred by the presence of these artists at the city's Biennale to acquire their works, which testify to the vitality of Italian painting at the turn of the century. The collection of sculptures by Medardo Rossois also of special importance.
- Central Hall: The central hall displays works from the very first Joaquin Sorolla are exhibited. These works give an idea of the Biennale’s role in promoting “salon-art”, followed by others of experimental kind such as Kandinsky’s White Zig Zags. Finally, works from the museum’s graphic art collection and sculptures are also on display, together with some renowned paintings by Pierre Bonnard and Marc Chagall.
- Room 3: This room is devoted to Adolfo Wildt's sculptures, donated to Ca' Pesaro by the Wildt-Scheiwiller heirs in 1990. The Milanese artist was a protagonist of the Symbolism, but also of a period of experimentalism and innovation that influenced later generations.
- Room 4: The De Lisi bequest, exhibited in this room, was donated to the museum in 1961, and include major artworks by Italian and foreign artists. There are paintings by Felice Casorati (a central figure of the intellectual avant-garde in Turin during the early 1920s), Mario Sironi, and Alberto Martini. Other artists present in this room include Carrà, Filippo De Pisis, Giorgio Morandi, Massimo Campigli, Ottone Rosai, and Giorgio de Chirico. Tanguy, Brauner, Matta Echaurren, Joan Miró and Kandinsky, who testify the collector’s preference for surrealist themes, even in artists not generally identified with the movement.
- Rooms 5 and 6: These rooms are devoted to the Ca’ Pesaro Years, a term applied to the first season of the Boccioni, Gino Rossi, Umberto Moggioli, and Felice Casorati on display, alongside the Burano School, which is represented by Pio Semeghini. The rooms also displays later works by Guido Cadorin, Guido Marussig, and Gennaro Favai.
- Room 7: This room offers an overview of the Italian art trends in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, with works by Antonio Donghi, Luigi Tito, Lorenzo Viani, Giuseppe Cesetti, and Guido Cadorin. A tapestry work by Fortunato Depero is displayed together with works by Enrico Prampolini and Toti Scialoja. In the center of the room is a work by Umberto Mastroianni. Other artists present in this room include Leone Minassian and Franco Gentilini.
- Room 8: This room offers an overview of some Italian art trends during the post-Leoncillo.
- Room 9: After World War II, Venetian art entered a new, lively phase, with the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti and the Spatialism. The protagonists of these movements are all present in this room, including Armando Pizzinato, Giuseppe Santomaso, Emilio Vedova, Tancredi, Edmondo Bacci, Guidi, Bruno Saetti, Mario Deluigi, Alberto Gianquinto, and Vittorio Basaglia.
- Room 10: A small Contemporary Artgallery inside the museum, this room is dedicated to temporary exhibitions on unpublished works, young artists’ experiments, and video art.
Asian art museum
The upper floor is dedicated to the
Koryusai, Harunobu, Hokusai),[3] but additionally artwork from China and Indonesia. This collection of oriental objects was brought back from a stay in Asia by Prince Henry of Bourbon-Parma, Count of Bardi
, at the end of the 19th century, and bequeathed to the Italian state.
Gallery
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Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna -
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Francesco Guardi Ca Pesaro 1755-60 -
Oriental art
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See also
References
- ISSN 2571-9408.
- ^ Stanska, Zuzanna (2022-05-09). "10 Paintings for Which You Will Love Ca' Pesaro in Venice". DailyArt Magazine. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84670-304-1.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ca' Pesaro (Venice).
- Official website
- Oriental Art Museum
Ca' Pesaro travel guide from Wikivoyage
| Preceded by Ca' Foscari |
Venice landmarks Ca' Pesaro |
Succeeded by Ca' Rezzonico |