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 Listen to a podcast Listen| iTunes| RSS (The Moran Gondola, 20:59 mins.) |
| | | | 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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