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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