52, San Marco - Ala Napoleonica - Venice

Running Exhibition from March 23rd to July 22nd 2007
"SARGENT IN VENICE"

Running Exhibition from June 8th to October 7th 2007
"ENZO CUCCHI"

Running Exhibition from June 9th to September 2nd 2007
"WORDS AND FIGURE
Moments of history of book and press from Museo Correr Collection"

Running Exhibition from March 4th to May 7th 2006
"UGO VALERI - Sentiment and unease"

Running Exhibition from December 10th to June 4th 2006
"EMANUELE LUZZATI Marco Polo’s Il Milione"

Running Exhibition from April 8th to June 18th 2006
"HANS JEAN ARP E SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP Love and Art"

Exhibition from December 2nd to February 26th 2006
"OMAGGIO AD ALBERTO GIANQUINTO"

Exhibition from October 29th to February 26th 2006
"FROM BELLINI TO TIEPOLO
Great Venetian painting from Sorlini Foundation"

Exhibition from February 11th to May 29th 2005
"VERONESE PROFANO"

An exhibition devoted to Paolo Caliari, called il Veronese (Verona 1528- Venezia 1588), has recently been opened. This artist together with Tintoretto and Tiziano has given the best representation of the second half of the XV century art. While Tintoretto was anxious , haunted and tormented , Veronese was calmer and more optimistic. His manierism infact is the other side of the Counter-Reformation age: the brightness of colour is simply obtained by putting them side by side so that they bring out each other. A diffused light is present in Caliari's paintings and is particularly evident in his works celebration of the Venice myth, where the Serenissima strength and richness is brought out. The same technique is used even when he paints mythological, allegoric and love scenes where he portrays refined charachters, sometimes foreshortened represented but always characterized by grace and beauty. This section closes with the penetrating and intense portraits which thanks to the curators Giandomenico Romanelli and Claudio Strinati show the innovations and the new themes brought to the Lagoon land by Veronese. Besides the exhibition, Veronese's works can also be admired by visiting Palazzo Ducale and Sala d'Oro of Libreria Marciana, and in cooperation with Chorus- il museo della Città, by visiting the churches to which Paolo Veronese gave its most beautiful masterpieces and in primis that of S. Sebastiano.

Exhibition from June 11th to October 30th 2005
"Lucian Freud"

Organised by Musei Civici Veneziani, in collaboration with the British Council, the exhibition is curated by William Feaver and includes more than eighty works by this German-born artist, some of them established masterpieces, some new works produced for the occasion.In the fifty years since he first exhibited in Venice Lucian Freud's fame as a painter has matured into pre-eminence. His achievement was recognised in the retrospective held at the Tate in London in 2002 which was seen by more people than any other show there of a living artist. Three years later, a number of new and previously unseen paintings by the 82 year old artist will form the finale to the exhibition at the Museo Correr, coinciding with the 2005 Biennale. Envisaged to run in conjunction with the 2005 Visual Arts Biennale, the show will include some seventy-five paintings and ten etchings from various European and American collections. The exhibition concentrates on Freud's lasting preoccupation, his concern for the individual and the particular. In its emphasis on what might be termed passionate proximity it will differ substantially from the Tate retrospective. Like his one-time friend Francis Bacon, Freud has always aimed to go beyond appearance. Unlike Bacon he does so by concentrating on specifics. "Everything is a portrait", he has said. The subject, whether friend or acquaintance, lover, daughter or grand daughter, whether fellow painters -such as Bacon and Hockney- or the Queen of England or indeed himself, becomes uniquely Freudian. As a grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud has always been associated with notions of psychological insight genetically transmitted, somehow. In reality he is a painter primarily concerned with the behaviour of paint. His fierce attention to everything from plant life to a dog's muzzle, to anything from a wrinkled coverlet to the hind quarters of a horse, makes him a marvel among artists of our time, a profoundly honest, intimate, uncompromising perpetuator of (as he puts it) "the way life goes." The Exhibition is held in conjunction with the 2005 Visual Arts Biennale.

Born in Berlin in 1922, Lucian Freud moved to London with his family in 1933. His first exhibitions came in 1944 when, together with Francis Bacon and Graham Sutherland, he showed works in which the deformation of objects and faces revealed the clear influence of Neue Sichlichkeit and appreciation of the art of Georges Grosz. The nude would mark a new departure in his art and painting. "Obsession with his subject is the sole impulse necessary for a painter to set to work" is how this reserved and painstaking artist describes the motive force behind his art. In a period dominated by 'image' and by the mass media's obsession with new 'figures' on which it can feast, Lucian Freud gives expression to a profound and intimate objectivity.