The Carnival of Venice, this year opens the doors to fantasy, fairy tales, animal and plant nature, imagination that every one has: a challenge to the most original mask!
Until the 31TH of January the theatre “La Scala di Seta” is on stage at Teatro Malibran, comic farse in an act of Gioachino Rossini.
After the restoration of Palazzo Mocenigo, the museum dedicated to textile tradition open its doors at “contaminations” of contemporar with Miniartextil, in exposition until the 14TH of February.
Until the 2ND of march “Fondazione Querini Stampalia” propose the first Haris Epaminonda’s personal exposure. The Cyprian artist who lives and works in Berlin, often uses pre-existing materials, of films, sculptures or like images drawn from books, assembling them to create artworks, installations and videos that evoke mysterious situations, that are not precisely classifiable, creating a situation of suspension and constant “potentiality”.
Palazzo Grimani, after almost 80 years of waiting, exhibited to the public the statue of San Giovannino, owned by the Ducal House, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti so it can be appreciated once more this masterpiece of Florentine sculpture attributed to Michelangelo from recent studies conducted by Francesco Caglioti.
It is estimated that in 1600 were present in the Venetian Lagoon 10,000 boats taht today we call today "typical": from grand parade gondolas , common gondolas, caorline, sandoli. But with the advent of motor boats Venice has undergone a rapid change, and most of the typical boats disused, once they were used as firewood.
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