Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus
Venice. Ca’ Rezzonico – Museum of Venetian Eighteenth Century
4th January – 26th May 2008

After the exhibitions dedicated to Tiepolo, Longhi, Canaletto, Fontebasso and Carlevarijs, the remarkable engravings of one of the most important Venetian landscape painters, Michele Marieschi (1710-1743) are arriving from the rich estates of the Printing and Drawing Laboratory of Museum Correr. This exhibition, curated by Filippo Pedrocco, can be visited during the normal itinerary of the museum and presents its masterpiece in such field, that is a collection of the representations of the most famous places in the town engraved in copper and shown for the first time in 1741. Of them the complete series of 22 engravings in their first stage are displayed and collected in the album Cicogna which was given as a present to the Venetian Civic Museums in 1865 and which has been restored recently by the Restoration Laboratory of the book of the Abbey of Praglia.
Beside such series, some works in their second stage are exhibited; they are different from the others for the presence of the progressive number put at the bottom on the right by the printer Teodoro Viero, namely the owner of the branches? in the eighth decade of the Eighteenth Century. The presence at Ca’ Rezzonico of works of different artists related to Marieschi (from master Gaspare Dizioni to the fellows Fontebasso and Antonio Guardi, namely the author of the portrait of marshal Schulenburg who was the client of them both) let us make comparisons and deepening too.
This exhibition can be visited with the entrance ticket of the Museum.