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The Stones of Venice. An exhibition dedicated to Ruskin at Palazzo Ducale
From: 10-03-2018 To: 10-06-2018 Palazzo DucaleWEBSITE: palazzoducale.visitmuve.it
LOCATION: Palazzo Ducale
What the myth of Venice would be without John Ruskin, cantor of the ethernal beauty of the city, a lot more fascinating while be captured during its decadence? John Ruskin 'come back' to Venice in a big exhibition that for the first time focuses on the artist and his relationship with the lagoon city. A central personality in the international artistic overview of the XIX century, writer, painter and art reviewer, the English man John Ruskin (1819-1900) had a deep connection with the lagoon city to which he dedicated his most well-known piece of literature "The Stones of Venice": a study of its architecture, explored and described in its tiniest particulars, and a hymn to the beauty, the uniqueness but also the vulnerability of this city. On the exhibition and on the artist Venice as the muse of this immense artist that "crossed any boundary in the name of an inter-disciplinary vision, practiced before the term was created". Ruskin, admired by Tolstoj and Proust, able to strongly influence the aesthetics of the time with his interpretations of art and architecture come back now to Venice in the places of his inspiration; come back to Palazzo Ducale, emblematic building that he explored for a long time and from different perspectives: notebooks, watercolours, reliefs, plaster casts, albumins, platinoids. To host him, a sequence of rooms, many times represented, where the scenography of Luigi Rizzi highlights the architectural and sculptural presence of the gothic and byzantine Venice, medieval and non traditional that he loved so much and wanted to preserve from oblivion. Practical Informations The exhibition "The Stones of Venice" will be set-up at Palazzo Ducale, open until June 10, 2018. Tickets: 13€ full; 10€ reduced. Open everyday, 10.30am-5.30pm. Last entrance: 4.30pm