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Giorgio Vasari in Venice: the Ceiling of Ca’ Corner Spinelli reunited at the Accademia Galleries

August 28th, 2024 In 1542 the Tuscan painter and art historian Giorgio Vasari, during his stay in the Venetian Lagoon, painted for one of the ceilings of Ca’ Corner Spinelli a series of Virtues and putti.



These works, immediately appreciated for their vibrant colors and the audacious foreshortenings, were separated, sold and then lost.
Over the past forty years the Italian State has been able to find most of the panels, scattered around Europe, to purchase them and to give them back to Venice.





Recently the ceiling has been reconstructed in one of the little rooms along the Palladian corridor, as to recreate the original effect of surprise that the Venetians might have felt when they admired for the first time this artwork by Vasari.
We’ll be waiting for you to tell you more about these extraordinary paintings and about other masterpieces of the Accademia Galleries.
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