Celebrations (Feste Ducali) at the Doge’s Palace, a dossier Exhibition

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24 February - 6 May 2012 The Doge’s Palace The first dossier exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, opening on the 24th February 2012, will be dedicated to Celebrations at the Doge’s Palace: on show will be the valuable prints drawn by Canaletto and engraved by Giambattista Brustolon, works which are well-known even to the general public and which were mostly set in the Doge’s Palace itself. The subjects of the prints can also be seen on the original copper plates, on loan from the Correr Museum where they are now conserved. The Sala della Quarantia nova civil, situated between the vast Sala del Maggior Consiglio (Hall of the Great Council) and the Sala dello Scrutinio (Voting Hall), where the most important events of the political and administrative life of the Republic unfolded, will be the focal point of the exhibition, in which around ten celebrations at the Doge’s Palace are on display in two different media: captured by the brilliant pen of Canaletto (1697-1768), and skilfully transferred onto copper by the burin of Giambattista Brustolon (1716ca-1796), then transformed into prints. Through the painstaking and masterful attention to detail, the grandeur of the scenes depicted, and the original points of view that present every detail– garments, buildings, furnishings, boats – in high quality, the splendour, cultural vitality, and wisdom of ancient Venice is restored to us, making a huge contribution to the extraordinarily rich tradition of art and publishing that this universally renowned series enjoyed for almost two centuries.PB