10th October 2009 – 3rd January 2010
Peggy Guggenheim Collection

From Saturday 10th October Peggy Guggenheim Collection has been hosting the exhibition ‘Prendergast in Italy’, a display which, for the first time in Italy, gives the public the opportunity to admire the works by the American Post-Impressionist artist who depicted the lagoon town and Italy in its whole in a conspicuous number of artworks. It is a collection of works Prendergast made after two important trips in Italy, the first one in 1898 when he stopped also  in Padova, Firenze, Siena ,Assisi, Orvieto, Roma, Napoli

10th October 2009 – 10 January 2010
Accademia Gallery

After seven years since its last exhibition, for some days the public has had the opportunity to admire the well-known Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing ‘The Vitruvian Man’, which, nowadays, has become the icon of Western civilisation, at the Gallerie dell’Accademia.
The drawing has been stored at the Gallerie dell’Accademia since 1822, when the Austrian Government bought it, from the collector Giuseppe Bossi, from Milan, who

Until 22nd November 2009
Palazzo Zenobio

The exhibition of Francis Bacon’s designs organized for the 53rd Biennale of Venice and named ‘The peak of the iceberg’ is open until 22nd November 2009.
The exhibition presents a selected ‘corpus’ of about 20 Francis Bacon’s designs on paper of different dimensions, outlining a range of humanly monstrous characters typical of

3rd October – 3rd November 2009
Warehouse of Salt, Gardini Hall, Head Office of the Bucintoro Oarsmen Company.
For the first time in Venice, in the evocative rooms of the Sala Gardini at the Warehous of Salt, along the Zattere, there will be a personal exhibition dedicated to the Serbian artist Nikola Kolja Milunovic (Belgrado 1935). NAVE MONDO (WORLD SHIP) exhibition, open to the public from 3rd October to 3rd November 2009, presents a

A friendship tree nearly 5 metres high, made of iron dust and glass installations, celebrating the brotherhood between Venice and New York, will be the personal gift that Consorzio Promovetro, -representing the most important craft companies of Murano, and which deals with the promotion and the management of the regional trademark Murano Artistic Glassware – on 9th