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L'Avventura del vetro. Un millennio d’arte veneziana

After almost thirty years, once again the Correr Museum is hosting a prestigious exhibition on glass, a continuation, from a diverse angle of the same-named exhibition 'The Adventure of Glass', which has just ended at Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento. While some of the items on display in this great Venetian edition are different, other more important ones have been added in celebration of over a thousand years’ history of glass in Venice and the Lagoon. An initiative of Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and curated by Aldo Bova and Chiara Squarcina, installation by Daniela Ferretti, open from 11 December 2010 to 25 April 2011 at the Correr Museum, “The Adventure of Glass” is actually the largest exhibition on this theme since the extensive exhibition in 1982 at the Doge's Palace, Correr Museum and the Glass Museum. The background to this event is the imminent celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Museum, which was founded in 1861 thanks to Abbot Zanetti, and also in view of the plans foreseen for the expansion in the spaces of the nearby Conterie, in the hope of encouraging more donations of twentieth-century works.

Organised chronologically in four sections – archaeological glass, the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, the nineteenth century and the twentieth century – with over three hundred objects on display, all from the collections of the Murano Glass Museum, the great exhibition at the Correr Museum goes back over the entire extraordinary “adventure” of glass in Venice: from its arrival in the lagoon during the Classical age with glass from distant lands, to the growing union of glass and design that represents both the present and future of glass production on Murano.

With an unprecedented sequence of ancient glass recovered from the lagoon beds and the sand of the city canals, the opening section of the exhibition shows just to what extent glass became an integral part of Venice. Scattered around by chance, these items were either the result of consignments falling into the sea or were simply discarded because they were broken. Extremely fragile masterpieces, often of outstanding craftsmanship, these objects will be on display to the public for the very first time since they were retrieved from the waters where they were preserved for centuries.

This section also includes archaeological pieces from the Manca Fund, in the Correr Collection, that demonstrate their function not so much as a 'memory archive' but, rather, as objects that inspired what was destined to become an iconic Venetian activity.

It was these very items that influenced the taste of Venetian glassmakers throughout most of the Golden Age of glass in Venice, from the fourteenth to the entire sixteenth century when Venetian glass was so sought after and copied. This significant period is represented in the exhibition with an extensive series of masterpieces.

Then the eighteenth century developments with the ingeniously successful attempts to present glass not merely for what it is, but for what else it can and will inspire when worked with skill and creativity.

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Ticket: Intero € 8.00, ridotto € 5.00
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from Dec 11, 10 to Apr 25, 11
December 2010
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Museo Correr
San Marco 52 - 30124 Venezia
Centro Storico
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