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Serenissime trame. Carpets from the Zaleski collection and Renaissance paintings
Claudia Cremonini, Giovanni Valagussa
Marsilio 2017
176 pages; 24 x 16 cm; ill.; language: Italian and English
Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at the Ca’ d’Oro in Venice is opening the exhibition "Serenissime trame", curated by Claudia Cremonini, Moshe Tabibnia and Giovanni Valagussa, on March, 23rd. This is the first museum presentation of the Zaleski collection, with a selection of twenty-five antique carpets - absolute masterpieces - from the Near East picked out from a precious, vast collection that is probably the most complete in the world.
The exhibition, hosted in the extraordinary Venetian building - produced by the Polo Museale del Veneto and Brescia’s Fondazione Tassara, to which the collection was recently donated - is a tribute to founder of the Ca’ d’Oro state museum Giorgio Franchetti’s passion for collecting, whose interests at a young age focused on carpets, showing a marked interest in the decorative arts.
A nucleus of very rare carpets made in the 15th and 16th Centuries was selected from the Zaleski collection, to represent some of the most prized carpet types which reached Venice along the trade routes from the Orient: extraordinary, highly colourful fabrics, composed of elaborate weaves with a powerful symbolic charge.
Comparing these carpets with some Italian paintings dating from the mid-15th Century to the mid-16th Century, chosen from an area of cultural influence closely linked to the domains of the Serenissima, allows to notice the extensive presence of these luxury objects in the northern area, particularly the Lombardia - Veneto and Este sphere.
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Serenissime trame. Carpets from the Zaleski collection and Renaissance paintings
EXTERNAL EVENT
The Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at the Ca’ d’Oro in Venice is opening the exhibition "Serenissime trame", curated by Claudia Cremonini, Moshe Tabibnia and Giovanni Valagussa, on Thursday 23 March. This is the first museum presentation of the Zaleski collection.