Sargent and Venice

After “Turner and Venice”, another show which charts a great artist’s response to the city and its lagoon: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Housed within the neoclassical rooms on the first floor of the Museo Correr, the exhibition includes approximately seventy works (paintings and watercolours), a relaiable evidence of Sargent's mastery to recreate on canvas the atmosphere taken from an unsual point of view: Sargent in fact used to discover Venice slowly sailing on a gondola and paint his watercolour and drawings.

An accompanying book (published in Italian by Electa) contains essays by scholars including Warren Adelson, Elaine Kilmurray, Elizabeth Oustinoff, Richard Ormond, Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Giandomenico Romanelli.

This exhibition is a wonderful way to have a nice holiday in hotel Venice discovering how this city influenced great artists along centuries.

For more information www.museiciviciveneziani.it

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Vogalonga 2007

These year the same day of Vogalonga (may 27th 2007) there will be the annual challenge between the four Antique Italian Maritime Republics (Venice, Genua, Amalfi and Pisa) who take it in turns to organize the regata. It's a wonderful event to enjoy the traditions and the history of a magnificent city, celebrating the challenge with a stay in a charmish hotel Venice.

 

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