THE MUSEO CORRER IN ST MARK’S SQUARE HOLDS AN EXHIBITION ON IPPOLITO CAFFI

‘Ippolito Caffi 1809-1866. Tra Venezia e l’Oriente’ is the title of the exhibition at the Museo Correr opened a few days ago and continuing until 20 November 2016. The exhibition curators write: ‘150 years after the death of Ippolito Caffi and the annexing of Venice and Veneto to Italy, a big exhibition celebrates the most innovative view painter of the nineteenth century, a visionary and a patriot. The collection of more than 150 paintings donated to the city by his widow is being exhibited in its entirety for the first time in fifty years. Caffi’s paintings - normally kept in the deposits of the Ca’ Pesaro and of which the first catalogue raisonné is now being published by Marsilio - offer testimony of all the cities and regions visited and are the most complete collection of this nineteenth-century painter’s artistic pathway. He was an indefatigable traveller, at times driven by personal restlessness, at times by his insatiable cultural curiosity.’ A genuinely beautiful and stunning exhibition, curated by Annalisa Scarpa and promoted and produced by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Civita Tre Venezie and Villaggio Globale International. Photo: Snow and Fog on the Grand Canal, 1840

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