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Opening Sunday-Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals

OPENING SUNDAY
 
Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals
February 20–May 30, 2011
East Building, Mezzanine and Upper Level
Venice inspired a school of competitive view painters whose achievements are among the most brilliant in 18th-century art. The exhibition celebrates the rich variety of these Venetian views, known as vedute, through some 20 masterworks by Canaletto and more than 30 by his rivals, including Michele Marieschi, Francesco Guardi, and Bernardo Bellotto. Responding to an art market fueled largely by the Grand Tour, these gifted painters depicted the famous monuments and vistas of Venice in different moods and seasons.

www.nga.gov/exhibitions/veniceinfo.htm (Exhibition Information)
shop.nga.gov/nga/category.cgi?item=410000372142 (Exhibition Catalogue)
www.nga.gov/programs/film/#exhib_films (Exhibition Film)
www.nga.gov/programs/music/#feb_27_2011 (Attend a Concert)
www.nga.gov/programs/audio/#special (Take an Audio Tour)
www.nga.gov/education/teacher.htm#saturday (Attend a Teacher Workshop)
www.nga.gov/programs/lectures/#venice (Attend a Lecture: The Fabric of Venice)
http://www.nga.gov/programs/lectures/#canaletto (Attend the Lecture: Introduction to the Exhibition)
http://www.nga.gov/programs/galtalks/#venice_canaletto (Attend a Gallery Talk)
www.nga.gov/programs/lectures/#pubsymposium (Attend the Symposium: Sights and Sounds of Eighteenth-Century Venice)
The Moran Gondola
East Building, Mezzanine
This gondola is a rare 19th-century survival. When the American artist Thomas Moran stayed in Venice in 1890, he hired it for his personal use and brought it back with him to his residence on Long Island, New York. He enjoyed telling friends that the gondola had once been owned by the poets Robert and Elizabeth Browning, but the story cannot be corroborated.

The gondola (c. 1850) is on loan from the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. It was a gift of the Thomas Moran Collection, East Hampton Free Library, East Hampton, Long Island, New York.

www.nga.gov/exhibitions/veniceinfo.htm#gondola
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Garden Cafe Italia
West Building, Ground Floor
In honor of the exhibitions Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals and Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525–1835 (May 8–November 27, 2011), as well as the Gallery's own stellar collection of Italian masterpieces, Chef Fabio Trabocchi will transform the menu in the Garden Cafe. Returning from New York to DC in 2011 to open the highly anticipated restaurant Fiola in Penn Quarter, Chef Trabocchi will create a menu of signature Italian cuisine for the Garden Cafe, including a buffet as well as a la carte dishes.

www.nga.gov/ginfo/cafes.shtm#garden (Garden Cafe Italia)

View Menus
Buffet and a la Carte Menu (PDF 88k)
Beverages and Desserts Menu (PDF 184k)

Download Recipes
Brodetto di pesce alla Veneta (PDF 112k)
Melanzane alla Parmigiana (PDF 112k)
Lattarolo (PDF 108k)
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