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In Aix, the beauties and secrets of a Venetian collection

2021-12-05T18:58:36.565Z


CRITICAL - Arts The ancient treasure of a prince of the lagoon with a troubled past, Vittorio Cini, travels outside Italy for the first time.


Special envoy to AIx-en-Provence

Attributions to Renaissance masters or to their Tuscan workshop (Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Piero di Cosimo, Ghirlandaio, Jacopo Pontormo), Venetian (Lorenzo and Giandomenico Tiepolo) and Ferrarais (Cosmè Tura).

And more sculptures, enamels and ivories, medieval drawings and illuminations.

Including a handwritten book of barely five centimeters executed in 1494 by the Duke of Milan for the King of France.

An engraving room with no less than sixteen labyrinthine prisons imagined by Piranesi.

All accompanied by a few contemporary counterpoints (Ettore Spalletti or Vik Muniz).

This is the representative selection of the collection of the Venetian Giorgio Cini Foundation, currently visible at the Hôtel de Caumont in Aix-en-Provence.

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On two floors, among these 90 objects, what discoveries!

Because even in Venice, it is not usually easy to admire this rich art collection of nearly four thousand pieces.

Between the Grand Canal and Campo San

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Source: lefigaro

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