VITTORE CARPACCIO - Paintings and drawings

DUCAL PALACE - VITTORE CARPACCIO - Paintings and drawings

from 10 October 2020 to 24 January 2021

Famous above all for his cycles of narrative and religious paintings, Vittore Carpaccio (1460/66 - 1525/26) represents the grandeur and splendor of Venice transporting sacred stories into daily life, in scenarios full of details, combining the observation of the urban scene to the poetic and the fantastic. The subject of a renewed interest in historiography, also thanks to recent discoveries, attributions and restorations, Carpaccio has no longer been the subject of a monographic exhibition since 1963, from the historic Palazzo Ducale exhibition.

The exhibition is built in co-production with The National Gallery in Washington and will trace, in both thematic and chronological terms, the development of Carpaccesque painting from an updated perspective, through religious cycles and genre paintings and a substantial core of drawings, telltale about his fervent imagination, the rigor of his technique and his interest in nature, perspective and the effects of light.

With important loans from European and American museum collections and from private collections, in the Venetian chapter the exhibition will reconstruct the artist's journey from youth to artistic maturity, recomposing narrative cycles now dispersed and referring to city itineraries for those present in the lagoon; in his follow-up to Washington, the first American exhibition for Carpaccio, works commissioned by the confraternities will be exceptionally proposed, conserved in Venice and presented after very recent revealing restorations.

On the occasion of your visit we will be happy to receive you at the headquarters of Ca' Venezia Immobiliare.