A Cosmopolitan City and its Legend, VENICE IN THE 18TH CENTURY
Fondazione Accorsi-Ometto Museo di Arti Decorative, Turin
In 1922, Italy’s first exhibit dedicated to paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was inaugurated at Palazzo Pitti; already on that occasion, Venice was the star. A few years later, in 1929, the exhibit curated by Nino Barbantini about 18th-century Italian artwork made Venetian paintings and, more in general, every type of artistic product from Venice the true fulcrum of the 18th century, in Italy and Europe.
Almost one hundred years later, the Accorsi-Ometto Decorative Arts Museum dedicates an exhibit to Venice, the cosmopolitan city par excellence, and to its legend, curated by Laura Facchin, Massimiliano Ferrario, and Luca Mana.
