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The Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a cultural institution in
Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape and the history of Venetian culture, and by Japan. Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the te ...
photographed by Paolo Monti in 1963">
Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Venezia, 1963) - BEIC 6328671.jpg, Entrance
Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Venezia, 1963) - BEIC 6337242.jpg, Atrium
Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Venezia, 1963) - BEIC 6337243.jpg, Interior
Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Venezia, 1963) - BEIC 6337240.jpg, Garden
Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Venezia, 1963) - BEIC 6328677.jpg, Access bridge
Fondo Mario Stefani
(Italian)
Fondazione Querini Stampalia website
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The Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a cultural institution in Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
, Italy, founded in 1869 at the behest of the last descendant of the Venetian Querini Stampalia family, Conte Giovanni Querini (Count John Querini). Architect Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape and the history of Venetian culture, and by Japan. Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the te ...
designed interior, exterior, and garden elements and spaces on the ground floor of the historic building.
Location
The foundation is located in the Palazzo Querini Stampalia and includes living quarters, an archive, a library, and a museum of paintings and furnishings, thePinacoteca Querini Stampalia
The Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia is an art collection and museum in Venice, Italy. Situated inside the Palazzo Querini Stampalia, in the sestiere of Castello, on the left bank of the Grand Canal, it includes famous paintings as a ''self- portrai ...
. Located just South of the Church of Santa Maria Formosa in the sestiere Castello, the Foundation is open to the public for academic research.
Collections
The museum has a substantial art collection, specially of masterpieces of VenetianBaroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
and Rococo, including paintings by Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 26 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. He was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his father ...
('' Presentation at the Temple''), Pietro Longhi, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Giulio Carpioni, Federico Cervelli
Federico Cervelli (1625 in Milan – before 1700) was an Italian painter, who established his workshop in Venice at the age of about thirty.
Biography
He initially trained with Pietro Ricci (il Lucchese). His first documented and dated pa ...
, Matteo Ghidoni
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Matteo Ghidoni (c.1626 in Florence – 24 January 1689, in Padua) was an Italian paint ...
, Pietro and Alessandro Longhi, Pietro Muttoni
Pietro della Vecchia, Pietro della Vècchia or Pietro Vècchia, formerly incorrectly called Pietro MuttoniBernard Aikema. "Vecchia, Pietro della."Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 5 March 2018 (Vicenza, 1603 &nda ...
, (also called della Vecchia), and Marco and Sebastiano Ricci
Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesqu ...
among others. Particularly prized are the arcadian landscapes, genre scenes, and Longhi's series on the ''Seven Sacraments''.
The museum also hosts some more modern works, including from the donation of the post-impressionist Venetian artist Eugenio Da Venezia. As well as a collection of artworks, Da Venezia gave funds to be used to build a collection of twentieth-century art representing Venice. There is also a collection of books and papers donated by the Venetian poet, Mario Stefani
Mario Stefani (1938 – 4 March 2001) was an Italian poet.
Stefani was openly gay, and his poetry was some of the first Italian poetry to explore homosexuality. A selection of his poetry was translated into English by Anthony Reid and published ...
.(Italian)
Access
The ''Biblioteca della Fondazione Querini Stampalia'', the Foundation Library, is open even on Sundays, the only one of its kind in the city, from 10 AM to 7 PM. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful public libraries in the city. Count Giovanni, in his testament in 1868, wished to ensure that the Library was open even when other libraries in the city were closed.References
External links
*Official 'Fondazione Querini Stampalia website
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