Eventi – Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Art Conversations

The Art Conversations at Palazzo Cini are back.

In this season’s series, art historians and experts will guide the public through the discovery of the art treasures in Vittorio Cini’s collection. Medieval and Renaissance masterpieces will be discussed and illustrated, delving into the themes and distinctive features each work encompasses. A special meeting is dedicated to “The Guest at the Palace”: The Crucified Christ by Antoon Van Dyck, an extraordinary loan from the Royal Palace of Genoa.

Participation is free and open to all, subject to booking via email: palazzocini@cini.it.

30 April | h 17:00
Cristina Guarnieri
University of Padua

14 May | h 17:00
Mari Pietrogiovanna
University of Padua

28 May | h 17:00
Roberto Cara, Valentina Lapierre
Art Historians, Ferrara

5 June | h 17:00
Loredana Luisa Pavanello
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

L’ultima figlia di San Marco: Eleonora Duse a Venezia e in Veneto

As part of the celebrations promoted by the National Committee for the centenary of the death of Eleonora Duse (1924-2024), the Institute of Theatre and Opera in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University in Venice is promoting a lecture-performance by performer Luca Scarlini entitled L’ultima figlia di San Marco: Eleonora Duse a Venezia e in Veneto. A journey through calli and canals to discover Eleonora Duse’s Venetian sojourns, her frequentations of the lagoon and the many tales told by witnesses of the time. Memories and memories, encounters and suggestions that, from Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Fuoco, will lead the spectator to Palazzo Volkoff, on the Grand Canal, to the Zattere residence, to Prince Hohenlohe’s red Casina and finally to the house of the actress’s father, Alessandro Vincenzo Duse.

Between flashes of the modern and fidelity to the past, the portrait of the great actress flows, against the backdrop of the city she loved most for much of her life, before her decision to settle in Asolo, in life and in death.

Appointments for Cini Ambassador

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Fondazione Giorgio Cini is a unique archive of documents, books, images and works of art. Fondazione Giorgio Cini is an extraordinary meeting place for artists, writers, philosophers, poets, scientists and musicians from all over the world. For seventy years it has been a laboratory of ideas and fertile dialogue between cultures.

Cini Ambassador is the only programme to discover this long history, projected towards the future and the cultural and social challenges that await us.

Being a Cini Ambassador allows priority or exclusive access to the Foundation’s initiatives and to visit the rooms, archives and collections with the protagonists of research. Being a Cini Ambassador offers many privileges including visiting the exhibitions in the Palazzo Cini Gallery at San Vio free of charge all year round. Being a Cini Ambassador means knowing first-hand the research being conducted in the Foundation’s Institutes and Research Centres.
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The Cini Ambassador 2025 programme is an invitation to discover the Foundation from unprecedented perspectives, revealing its history, international relations and the care of its heritage. Nine appointments, from April to November, to explore the Island: from its historical roots, with a visit to the Hall of Photographs, the Tiziano Terzani archive and the Ettore Sottsass fund, kept in the Research Centres, to the major exhibitions narrated by the curators.
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3 April 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Sala delle Fotografie

La Sala delle Fotografie: views from the Past of the Island
with Renata Codello

17 April 2025
Campo San Vio, Palazzo Cini. The Gallery

Ljubodrag Andric. Spazi, soglie, luci
with Ljubodrag Andric

6 May 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Le Stanze del Vetro

1932-1942 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale
with Marino Barovier

8 May 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Le Stanze della Fotografia

Robert Mapplethorpe and Maurizio Galimberti
with Denis Curti

13 June 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities

In the world of Tiziano Terzani: photographs, documents and stories
with Francesco Piraino

11 September 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Longhena Library

Venice and epidemics: a tale of crises and resilience
with Egidio Ivetic

26 September 2025
Campo San Vio, Palazzo Cini. The Gallery

Casanova and Venice
with Luca Massimo Barbero

17 October 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Sala Carnelutti

Casanova and Europe
with Daniele Franco

6 November 2025
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Centro Digitale – ARCHiVe

The archive of Ettore Sottsass: inside colours, ideas and projects
with Valentina Venturi

This programme is exclusively dedicated to Cini Ambassador.