 Venice Events & Exhibitions
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 Salvatore Ferragamo Celebrates Peggy Guggenheim in Venice
VENICE.- 2008 marks both the sixtieth anniversary of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the eightieth year of the Salvatore Ferragamo fashion label.
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Genuine, Fake and Recovered: 60 years of activity of the Italian Customs Corps protecting culture and art in the Veneto - Ca' Foscari until 7 September Genuine, Fake and Recovered: 60 years of activity of the Italian Customs Corps protecting culture and art in the Veneto - Ca' Foscari until 7 SeptemberPALAZZO GIUSTINIAN DEI VESCOVI
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Fondazione Cini, from September, 10th: Japan. Genji. The essence of beauty: art exhibition and meeting From September, 10 Fondazione Giorgio Cini will present two international events related to Japanese art and culture.
From September, 10 to November, 2 a graphic art exhibition will take ... [more]
Serenity Of Venice Art, Architecture Among The Wonders To Explore The paved square -- or "campo" -- around the Church of Santa Maria Formosa is one of dozens hidden among the tangled streets of Venice. Each campo is ... [more]
International Exhibition of Architecture 14 September to 23 November 2008. International Exhibition of Architecture.
Out There: Architecture Beyond Building.
Biennale Gardens and Arsenale:
14 September to 23 November 2008.
Eleventh edition of the i ... [more]
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July 19th: Festa del Redentore
Near the Church of the Redentore, this Festival is surely one of the most spectacular Venetian festivals and perhaps the most loved by Venetians.
Like the feast of the Madonna della Salute, the Redentore began as feast to give thanks for the end of a terrible plague that was wiping out the Venetian population. But while the Madonna della Salute has remained an exclusively religious festival, the Redentore with its famous night of fireworks on the eve of the feast means it is a feastday with more playful connotations.
The plague of 1576 had killed 50,000 people, among them the great painter Tiziano Vecellio. The Doge Alvise Mocenigo II promised to build a magnificent church if the plague ended.
The following year, the plague stopped, the Serenissima kept its promise and commissioned Andrea Palladio, assisted by Da Ponte, to build a majestic church on the Island of Giudecca.
The Church of Redentore was begun in 1577 and consecrated in 1592, and it is one of the most important examples of Palladian religious architecture. After the foundation stone was laid, a small wooden church was temporarily built, along with temporary bridge of barges from the Zattere, so that the Doge Sebastian Venier (his predecessor Alvise Mocenigo II did not escape the plague) could walk in procession as far as the tabernacle. From that day to the fall of the Venetian republic, the Doge made a pilgrimage to the Church of Redentore every year..
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