A rare opportunity to see the masterpiece by Titian on display in Venice at Palazzo Grimani
From 1 November 2013 to 26 January 2014, the wonderful
Palazzo Grimani Museum in
Venice will host one of
Titian’s most celebrated works, the portrait of a lavishly dressed young woman adorned with jewels:
La Bella.
This masterpiece is of the utmost importance to renaissance painting, and was recently
restored by the
Opificio delle Pietre Dure and then kept in the
Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
La Bella is being displayed at
Palazzo Grimani thanks to an exchange of art works between public museum institutions. In fact, the Superintendancy of Venice has loaned the Visions of the Hereafter by Hieronymus Bosch, normally kept Palazzo Grimani, to the ‘Renaissance Dream’ exhibition being held at Palazzo Pitti for several months. So it was that the Superintendancy of Florence reciprocated by offering La Bella.
Titian’s La Bella will be placed in the hall known as the Tribuna (known as the Antiquarium in historic times, or the antique study), the heart of the
Grimani family’s archaeological collections with perhaps the most evocative atmosphere of the whole museum. The room’s marble decorations and over-head lighting will do justice to the painterly quality and colours the recent restoration has returned to this extraordinary painting.
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