De Kooning's travels in Italy. Encounters, techniques, successes
In September 1959, Willem de Kooning traveled to Rome, where he would remain until early 1960. In new surroundings, he synthesized from all around him, observing classical art and Italian contemporary developments. He entered the city's social and artistic life, encountering fresh ideas which led to innovative techniques. A significant body of black and white works on paper resulted from his Roman sojourn, signalling bold new directions in the paintings he made upon his return to New York. A decade later, de Kooning returned to Italy, where he worked with clay for the first time. The small, experimental figures that emerged would lead to his subsequent engagement with sculpture in the 1970s.
This tour will examine three decades of de Kooning's painting, sculpture, and drawing through the lens of these two Italian visits, showing the profound impact they had on his subsequent work. De Kooning's exploration of new processes, materials, and techniques demonstrates a lifelong commitment to renewal and change – the creative force behind one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and vital visual lexicons.
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: 100€ per group (max 25 people)
Various linguistic options are offered for the visit: English, German, French, Spanish and Russian
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Willem de Kooning e l'Italia + The Masterpieces of the Gallerie dell'Accademia
This combined tour allows visitors to get to know the activity of the American artist Willem de Kooning focusing on how his travels in Italy deeply influenced his artistic production. At the same time, visitors are offered the opportunity to admire the main masterpieces of the Gallerie dell'Accademia.
Length: 105 minutes
Cost: 140€ per group (max 25 people)
Various linguistic options are offered for the visit: English, German, French, Spanish and Russian
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The History and the Masterpieces
A tour to admire the Gallerie: the museum, the set-up, the masterpieces and the artistic stories
We'll accompany you on a voyage to discover the glory of the Most Serene Republic, its cultural and economic wealth, its fortunes and misfortunes. We'll get help from the bicentenary history of the Gallerie, our collections and the buildings that make up the museum as it is today – a church, a convent, a "Scuola Grande" , until the Napoleonic suppressions and the birth of the Accademia di Belle Arti. The works of art themselves will tell us the story of the site, of Venice and Veneto, highlighting the links between history and art. We'll travel through the centuries admiring the very best creations, from Paolo Veneziano to Bellini, from Giorgione to Veronese, from Titian to Tiepolo, and we'll find out the reasons why Venetian art would come to be renowned all around the world.
Length: 75 minutes
Cost: 100€ per group (max 25 people)
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The Marvels of Art
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto as told from the eyes of their contemporaries: Venetian masters through the words of the critics of their times
Dedicated to those who wish the understand the core of the Gallerie admiring the masterpieces of Venetian artists through the words of their contemporaries. The golden age of Venetian painting was outlined by the words of the critics of those times: celebrated masters like Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and Tintoretto have been present since the very first volumes of the reviewers who sealed their success. This will allow us to enter the artistic debate and understand the distinctive nature of Venetian painting, exalting color as its main feature. These words will carry our emotions in the enviroment of the Renaissance and tell us how the soon-to-be absolute masterpieces were seen by their contemporaries.
Length: 75 minutes
Cost: 100€ per group (max 25 people)
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Between Art and Architecture
Learn to appreciate the strong bonds bewteen the architectural complex and the canvases: a museum does not live on artworks alone – but on architecture as well!
One does not live on art alone... but on architecture as well! A thoroughly immersive route where you can gaze at the artworks, the set-ups and the architectural structure of the Gallerie, so that you can admire the exceptional link between "content" and "container". From the church of Santa Maria della Carità to the convent of the Canons of the Lateran designed by Andrea Palladio, with the signature spiral staircase, from the Sala del Capitolo of the Scuola Grande to the postwar refurbishment by Carlo Scarpa: the outstanding context will be linked to the extraordinary artworks, and we'll unveil the close bonds joining the two.
Length: 75 minutes
Cost: 100€ per group (max 25 people)
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Many Saints for Many Canvases
The tales of the saints commissioned by Venetian Scuole: a visual story you can't miss
Far from being schools as we commonly think of them, what actually were the Venetian "Scuole"? Here's a tour to find that out, exploring the great painting series dedicated to the lives of the patron saints commissioned by the Scuole, which were secular confraternities devoted to welfare. We'll tell you the hagiographies and the art history behind the series of the Scuola Grande di San Marco, the Scuola di Sant'Orsola, the masterpieces of the Scuola Grande della Carità, which are still on site, as well as outline the stories of these important and unique Venetian institutions. With a tour dedicated to local piety and history you'll discover a one of a kind institution, with no peers in other Italian cities, in order to understand the uniqueness of the Venetian society at the time of the Republic.
Length: 75 minutes
Cost: 100€ per group (max 25 people)
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