Old Fotographies of Venice

Photography in Venice at dawn of Italy unification. The city and the events in the period between the experience of the Manin’s Republic and the coronation of patriotic dreams. The exhibition includes works of original and different artists, projection glasses and stereogram, machines of the XIXth century for the vision, and an optic camera for daguerreotypes.

Exhibition of photographies in the 150th anniversary of Italy Unification.

The exhibition revisits the crucial period which had as conclusion the unification of Venice and the whole Veneto with Italy, turning the look to an aspect often neglected by the historians of the Risorgimento: How the photography watched the city and testified the events in the time period situated between the thrilling experience of the Manin’s Republic, the coronation of patriotic dreams cultivated for a long time and the entrance of Venice in the united Italy. Like that it’s possible to outline a period of 30 years of the urban iconographic affair, contrasting the Venetian and the Austrian period and the Italian one, with the intent to have a sintetic look of the city and highlight the modification that photography could point out.

The exhibition includes original works of different authors and in different format, coming from different collections, public and private, Venetian and from Veneto, photographic projection glasses and stereogram with views of Venice. You will be able also to see some vision machines of the XIXth century (ex. a megaleotoscop, some stereoscops, a grafoscop, etc…).

The exhibition itinerary is constituted by 3 passages.

_ One more traditional: a vedute-type passage, in which you can assist at the contamination of the temporal dimensions.

_ A second more historical: intends to document how during the Habsburg years the photography maintained a behaviour quite equidistant and how it’s difficult get the point of this aversion anti-Habsburg which grew up and is documented from other literary and memorialistic sources;

_ The last passage shows how, thanks to photography, it’s possible to discover, almost in company of painters as Giacomo Favretto, of an other Venice, more alive and authentic, made by trades made outside and new social protagonists.

At the photographical exhibition, is related a cinematographic section which presents some shoots, one of the first done in town, illustrating the new way of watching Venice and the life which was taking place, fixed by the new expressive language more than the new historical period. Thanks to the projection of original old movies, the public will be able to experience the stereoscopic vision with original materials.

At Palazzo Loredan, the exposition is fitted out adjacent to the Panteon Veneto which is closely connected at the Risorgimento theme of the exhibition. The marble portraits collection, work of famous Venetian sculptors of the XIXth century, has been inaugurated in fact during the IXth congress of the Italian Scientists, which consolidated in the 1847 this feeling of national identity which brought, the year after, to the anti-austrian revolutions broken out in the whole Italy. The Istituto Veneto attributed a particular attention to the development of the photography with the assignment of industrial prizes for innovation to inventors and Venitian photographers already in the middle of the XIXth century, sponsoring the Giuseppe Gerola’a photographic campaign in Crete in 1899-1900.

Scientific Committee: Gian Piero Brunetta, Sara Filippin, Carlo Montanaro, Alberto Prandi, Carlo Alberto Zotti Minici.

Cataloghe: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.

Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
con il patrocinio di
Regione del Veneto, Provincia di Venezia, Comune di Venezia

Tomaso Filippi, Venezia. Rio terà la Maddalena, post 1894. Per gentile concessione dell'I.R.E. Venezia © Fondo Fotografico Tomaso Filippi

Anna Zemella
Ufficio stampa IVSLA 0415208493 - 335 5426548 annazemella@annazeta.it

Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti – Palazzo Loredan
Campo Santo Stefano 2945 Venezia
From Tuesday to Friday from 14:00 to18:00 ; Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00.

Closet on Monday.

Ingress: €. 3,00