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The Procuratoria of San Marco has completed the refurbishment of the Museum of San Marco, making a unique course that combines the historic area on the narthex of the basilica and museum spaces in the Banquet room. The works on display in public areas of the plan of the galleries have been divided into three main sections: the mosaics, tapestries and quadriga. In the first section, the ancient a...

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The prestigious Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the twentieth century. Based at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Canal Grande in the stretch between the church of Santa Maria della Salute and the Academy. The museum was opened in 1951 by the grandson of Solomon R. Guggenheim, wealthy American industrialist, art c...

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It 's the most important museum in Venice and is named after Teodoro Correr that, in 1830, donated his extensive collection to the city. Among the various possible routes, it is generally recommended that winds along the Napoleonic Wing, and rooms on the first floor, where magnificent Neo-classical Rooms house a remarkable collection of sculptures by Canova. Later, the Procuratie Nuove, is a m...

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The Library is located in Piazza San Marco. The construction, begun by Sansovino in 1537-1538, fifty years after it was completed by Scamozzi. In the early days, the building was used as the coinage of the Venetian Republic (Mint). It has two floors with arches supported by Doric and Ionic half-columns. The central portal is decorated with caryatids and gives greater access to space, which was the ...

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Napoleon set up the Statute of 1807, the Gallerie dell'Accademia is the most important collections of paintings of Venice. They are located in the former Church and School of Santa Maria della Carità and its convent, now the headquarters of the Accademia delle Belle Arti. In addition to the essays of the students, initially welcomed the Galleries also a collection of sculptures and collection of p...

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Ca' Rezzonico overlook the Canal Grande and is one of the most famous palaces of Venice. Commissioned by the Bon family, the palace was built by Baldassare Longhena the late seventeenth century. Was complemented in 1756 by Giorgio Massari, who added the third floor, with an impressive ballroom. Since 1936, Ca' Rezzonico is home to the Museo del Settecento veneziano, which houses important p...

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The Museo Storico Navale is housed in some very nice rooms belonged to the ancient Venetian Marina. Historic boats, guns, torpedoes, figureheads, sculptures, are exhibited in the same broad areas where skilled workers were building the oars of the famous Venetian warships, galleys. The outstanding collections include antique model ships (galleys, ships and the magnificent Bucintoro, the Doge's ...

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The palace has been inhabited since the seventeenth century by the San Stae branch of the Mocenigo family, one of the most prestigious of the Venetian nobility, which gave the town seven Doges. It's a big Gothic building remodeled and extensively rebuilt in the early seventeenth century, when it reached its present configuration. In 1945 the building was donated to the city of Venice by Alvise N...

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The museum is housed in the Gothic palace belonged to the family of Pesaro Orfei (Ca 'Pesaro). The building was purchased by the spanish artist and creator artist Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo has gradually changed environments and facilities to make your studio photography, set design and stagecraft, creation of textiles, painting, fashion design, lighting technology. In 1956, palace and museum w...

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The museum houses important ancient sculptures, including some substantial original Greek, there are also bronzes, ceramics, gems and coins, in addition to the archaeological collection from the filing date in the Correr Museum, which also includes Egyptian and Assyrian-Babylonian. The Museum presents collection of distinct character, as established by the works collected since the sixteenth c...