"Panorama of Venice. Opening of the endless horizon" Automatic translate

State Research Museum of Architecture. A. V. Shchuseva, the Italian Institute of Culture in Moscow and the Querini-Stampaglia Foundation (Venice), with the support of the Italian Embassy in the Russian Federation and AO UniCredit Bank, as part of the cross year of museums in Italy and Russia 2021-2022, present the Italian-Russian exhibition project “ Panorama of Venice. Opening of an endless horizon ”. The general partner of the project is the KERAMA MARAZZI company. Curators: Giandomenico Romanelli, Pascaline Vaten and Yulia Ratomskaya.

This project originated in Italy. Curators Giandomenico Romanelli and Pascaline Vaten studied the history of a special plot - the "panorama of Venice" - born in the framework of the urban landscape genre veda, and also studied the unique panorama of Venice by the artist Giovanni Biazina, which is about 23 meters long. This panorama was created as a special art attraction for the 1887 National Art Exhibition in Venice - the forerunner of the famous Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. The Italian version of the project was held with great success from June to October 2021 at the Querini-Stampaglia Museum in Venice.

The exhibition presented to the Moscow public tells about the formation of the “panorama of Venice” genre over the centuries, as well as about panoramic views of the city on the water “from a bird’s eye view”.

In the Italian-Russian version of the exhibition, works from the collection of the Museum of Architecture. A. V. Shchusev added to the exposition the theme of the Venetian veda of the 18th century, which not only preserved the changed or remained unchanged views of the city on canvas and paper, but also recorded the traditions of Venetian painting of views by Antonio Canaletto, Michele Marieschi and other Venetian artists.

The exhibition will show the unique panoramas of Venice of the 15th-18th centuries, the gazing of which for centuries inspired the European public to travel to the city on the water. With the help of modern technology, Giovanni Biazin’s Panorama of Venice will be recreated, and for the first time, fragments of a copy of this diorama, created by Giovanni Biazin and his son Vittorio for participation in the World Exhibition, will be presented to the public.

At the Moscow exhibition, visitors will see how ancient engravings influenced the illustrations of tourist guides, the appearance of panoramic lithographs with views of Venice, illustrated maps of the 18th-19th centuries of the unique city. The exhibits of the project will demonstrate how the diorama of Venice by Giovanni Biazin in 1887 became the forerunner of the European cinema of the late 19th-20th centuries.