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

On Friday, June 13 at 3 p.m., the Cini Ambassadors appointment dedicated to the presentation of the Tiziano Terzani Fund will take place.

An opportunity to learn more about the figure and work of Tiziano Terzani, a journalist and writer of international importance, through the heritage preserved in the fund dedicated to him.

On the occasion of this special meeting, the Young card will be offered free of charge to all university students under the age of 30.

The Tiziano Terzani archive, was donated to the Cini Foundation in January 2014 by the will of his wife Angela Terzani Staude, who will be present at the meeting together with Alen Loreti, biographer of the great journalist. The fund is characterized by the particular heterogeneity of documentary types present, typical of personal archives: there are documents related to his professional activity, autographs for articles and works, handwritten and typed notes, notebooks, personal diaries, press clippings, postcards, photographic positives and negatives, maps, study materials and much more to get to know this famous author closely.

The meeting will feature:

Angela Terzani Staude , widow of Titian Terzani
Alen Loreti , official biographer of the author
Francesco Piraino , head of the Center for the Study of Comparative Civilizations and Spirituality

Cini Ambassador 2025 Appointment: you can register for the program and attend the dedicated appointment up to 30 minutes before it starts.
Book by writing to [email protected]

The Museum as Site of Architectural Experimentation

On the occasion of the forthcoming opening of the exhibition The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain by Jean Nouvel, to be held on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, a public event will precede and explore its principal themes in greater depth.

Organised during the opening days of the Biennale, the initiative forms part of the Biennale Architettura 2025 – 19. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, it broadens the Biennale’s discourse, placing particular emphasis on the role of the museum in shaping the future of architecture. The morning of discussions brings together architects and museum professionals for a series of conversations dedicated to one of the key sites of contemporary architectural experimentation: the museum.

The initiative aims to foster a dynamic dialogue on the contribution of architecture and architects to the development of museum cultural policies and to the shaping of our relationship with art, in both urban and non-urban contexts.
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10:00 | Introduction by Béatrice Grenier

10:15 – 10:45 | Cultural Infrastructure for urban transformation

Joshua Ramus, REX
Andrés Jaque, Office for Political Innovation
Antoine Picon, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

11:00 – 11:30 | The Architectural Layers of the Museum

Cecilia Puga, Museo Cileno di Arte Precolombiana
Giovanna Borasi, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
Manuel Segade, Museo Reina Sofía

11:45 – 12:15 | Rethinking Pavilions As Potential Museums

Lina Ghotmeh, Lina Ghotmeh Architecture
Nicolas Fayad, EAST Architecture
Chris Dercon, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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A Guest at the Palace | “Christ on the Cross” by Antoon van Dyck

The Guest at the Palace initiative, promoted by the Art History Institute of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, was created through collaborations with some of the most prestigious Italian and international museum institutions. Conceived to temporarily enrich the museum holdings of Galleria di Palazzo Cini, the project features the exhibition of particularly important artworks granted on extraordinary loan and hosted for several months in the historic residence of Vittorio Cini, which houses the masterpieces of his remarkable art collection.

The exhibition returns to the Galleria di Palazzo Cini with a new distinguished guest: Antoon Van Dyck’s Crucified Christ (Antwerp, 22 March 1599 – London, 9 December 1641), a masterpiece from the early mature period of the celebrated Antwerp master, which will be on display to the public at the Gallery – the elegant residence on the Grand Canal showcasing the finest works from Vittorio Cini’s art collection – from 14 May to 8 September 2025.

The work, on loan as part of an exchange involving a pair of paintings from Ferrara in the Palazzo Cini collection for the exhibition ‘Genoa and St George’ to be held at the Royal Palace in Genoa in the autumn of 2025, will enter into a visual and, ideally, dialogic relationship with the Gallery’s other magnificent pieces, such as the evocative Crosses by the Primitive Masters in the exquisite gold-ground section.

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A masterpiece of extraordinary lyrical intensity, the Crucified Christ by the Flemish painter Antoon van Dyck stands out amongst the works in the distinguished collection of the Royal Palace of the National Museums of Genoa. A work of sublime grandeur, it has been recognised by critics as one of the most prestigious examples of the Italian output of the celebrated Antwerp master.

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At the centre of the canvas stands the vigorous body of Christ nailed to the cross, silhouetted against a gloomy sky thick with livid clouds, barely broken by flashes of blinding light, softened by delicate pinkish streaks. A voluminous, almost cumbersome, white drape, clearly reminiscent of Rubens, covers his waist, billowing sinuously in the wind and emphasising the still-vivid figure of Christ as he turns his gaze, intense and sorrowful, towards the sky. He is already glorious, despite the copious blood flowing from his wrists and from his head crowned with sharp thorns, slightly staining the whiteness of the cloth: above his slightly reclined head, in fact, a halo of luminous rays emerges, acting almost as a counterpoint to the hint of a solar eclipse painted in the top left, as recounted in the textual source of Scripture.

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The rugged landscape of Golgotha surrounding the cross seems to amplify the tragic dimension of the depiction, heightened by the presence of Adam’s skull at the foot of the cross, the epitome of human fragility.

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On Wednesday 14 May at 5.00 pm, the work will also be the focus of a special edition of the Conversazioni d’Arte, where it will be presented by Mari Pietrogiovanna, a specialist in Flemish and Dutch art and lecturer at the University of Padua.

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May 24 – July 21, 2014

Portrait of a Young Man with a Lute by Agnolo Bronzino

September 5 – November 2, 2014

Adoration of the Shepherds by Lorenzo Lotto

June 17 – September 28, 2015

The Madonna of Pontassieve by Beato Angelico

September 19 – November 15, 2015

Capriccio with a Small Square by Francesco Guardi

April 8 – June 6, 2016

Saint Mark by Andrea Mantegna

May 28 – November 1, 2021

Saint George and the Dragon by Paolo Uccello

July 15 – October 15, 2023

Warsaw, Church of the Holy Cross by Bernardo Bellotto

May 11 – July 16, 2023

Cleopatra by Artemisia Gentileschi

May 14 – September 8, 2025

The Crucified Christ by Antoon van Dyck

June 18 — September 27, 2026

Minerva Infuses the Soul into the Human Figure Modeled in Clay by Prometheus

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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: [email protected].

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.

Fondazione Giorgio Cini’s 2025 programme of activities approved

More than ninety events and two main thematic focus points around which all the Foundation’s Institutes and Research Centres will work in synergy: an international and interdisciplinary symposium on ‘Democracy and Pandemics’ and a programme of events on Giacomo Casanova marking the 300^th anniversary of his birth.

The General Council of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini has approved the programme of activities for 2025, which embraces and reflects the spirit of institutional renewal expressed by President Gianfelice Rocca, while implementing the multi-year interdisciplinary working guidelines laid out by Scientific Director Daniele Franco.

The programme features over ninety events that will showcase the seven Institutes and three Research Centres operating within the Foundation. Thirty-two seminars and conferences, twenty-seven educational events and workshops, eight exhibitions, six hosted events, thirty-two concerts as well as a number of publications will fill the Foundation’s annual event calendar.

The programming includes two themes that will foresee the participation of all the Institutes, with the aim of integrating methods, research, materials and a diverse range of imaginaries. The first thematic focus is ‘Democracy and Pandemics’, which will be the topic of an international symposium from 13 to 16 November, with the presence of experts and scholars from all around the world. The second focus explores Giacomo Casanova and eighteenth-century Venice, a theme with which the Foundation will participate in the celebrations for the 300^th anniversary of the birth of this iconic and restless figure of the Serenissima. The journey will culminate in an exhibition project that will be open to the public from October 2025 to February 2026.

Gianfelice Rocca, president of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, explains the vision that accompanies the activity programme as follows: “We are living through a historical moment of profound change, characterised by heightened geopolitical and social fragmentation, with new protagonists and communities bearing divergent values and often polarised worldviews. At the same time, scientific and technological knowledge is advancing rapidly, profoundly affecting all of humanity.”

“We must refer to these challenges when interpreting the future role of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini,” the President added, “while maintaining the strong appeal to humanistic thought on which our civilisation is founded and which the Foundation is committed to preserving, fostering an open and constructive cultural dialogue that facilitates international relations. Of vital importance is the Foundation’s link with Venice, with its millennial history, as a constitutive element of our mission.”

The Scientific Director Daniele Franco underlines: “Over the past seventy years, the Foundation has organised countless events and meetings of a cultural nature, so as to bring scientific and humanistic fields into dialogue on an international level. Next year, with renewed commitment, it will set about addressing the issue of pandemic management in democracies with the participation of experts from all around the world. The Foundation must remain a place of dialogue, hosting figures from different backgrounds as well as research from different geopolitical systems.”

Homo Faber 2024 | The Journey of Life

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini, in partnership with the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte and the Michelangelo Foundation presents the third edition of Homo Faber: an event dedicated to the art of craftsmanship.

For this third edition, visitors will be taken on a journey through a human life, from birth to afterlife – celebrating life’s standout moments and everyday simplicities, all viewed through the lens of craft. Meaningful milestones will be celebrated with special objects, crafted by skilled artisans according to specific techniques. From childhood to travel, romance to dreams, Homo Faber 2024 will showcase the craftsmanship behind the objects that accompany life’s most precious moments.

Luca Guadagnino and architect Nicolò Rosmarini will bring their vision and creativity to the art direction of this event. Exploring and developing The Journey of Life, a concept by Hanneli Rupert (Vice Chair of the Michelangelo Foundation), their staging will immerse visitors in a rich human narrative that weaves its way through Fondazione Giorgio Cini located on San Giorgio Maggiore island, in Venice. It is a unique opportunity to visit the magnificent spaces of this world-renowned cultural institution, a long term partner of the Michelangelo Foundation.

Exceptional scenography, bespoke handmade creations and live artisan demonstrations will make Homo Faber 2024 a truly sensory voyage. Inspired by the ten themes which articulate The Journey of Life, the showcase will unveil hundreds of outstanding handcrafted objects made by talented artisans from all over the world, highlighting the diverse skills, techniques and innovative approaches behind their creations.

A special selection of bespoke experiences encompassing craftsmanship, entertainment and gastronomy will be available to book in advance. Beyond the walls of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the hidden gems of Venice will be revealed through Homo Faber in Città, a programme developed in partnership with Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte. Participants can discover a treasure trove of artisanal addresses, offering a new way to visit the city.

Discover more on homofaber.com

By your ticket

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Since 2018, Homo Faber has presented the excellence of craftsmanship from around the world every two years, an initiative organized by Michelangelo Foundation in collaboration with Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte and Fondazione Giorgio Cini. With each edition, the spaces of Isola di San Giorgio are transformed and brought to new life.

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14–30 September 2018
Homo Faber. Crafting a more human future

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10 April – 1 May 2022
Homo Faber: Crafting a more human future. Living Treasures of Europe and Japan

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1–30 September 2024
Homo Faber 2024 – The Journey of Life

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1–30 September 2026
Homo Faber 2026 | An Island of Light

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A Guest at the Palace | “Warsaw, church of the Holy Cross” by Bernardo Bellotto

The season at the Galleria di Palazzo Cini in San Vio continues with the arrival of a new special guest. It is the unique painting by Bernardo Bellotto (Venice, 30 January 1721 – Warsaw, 17 October 1780), entitled Warsaw, Church of the Holy Cross, dated 1778, on loan from the Royal Castle Museum in Warsaw. The work will be on display in the Gallery’s rooms from 15 July to 15 October 2023 as part of the exhibition.

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The painting Warsaw, Church of the Holy Cross by Bernardo Bellotto depicts the imposing Baroque façade of the Church of the Holy Cross – one of Warsaw’s most important churches and the venue for state ceremonies – which dominates Krakowskie Przedmieście (the Krakow Suburb), a bustling thoroughfare and the final stretch of the road connecting the two royal residences, Wilanów Palace and the castle in the Old Town.

The church was built between 1725 and 1737 to a design by the Ticino architect Giuseppe Fontana; it was severely damaged during the 1944 uprising and rebuilt between 1945 and 1953, partly thanks to this very painting by Bellotto.

A dense row of noble palaces lines the street, with, on the right, the façade of St. Roch’s Hospital, founded in 1707. Among the illuminated buildings opposite the church, the entrance gate to the courtyard of Kazimierz Palace stands out; since 1816, with its ups and downs, it has been the seat of the University of Warsaw. The neighbouring palace, with a balcony, belonged to King Poniatowski’s father; further on, where the street narrows, the boundary wall of the Lubomirski Palace and the scaffolding on the façade of the Carmelite church, then under construction.

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Open daily from 11am to 7pm, closed on Tuesdays.

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May 24 – July 21, 2014

Portrait of a Young Man with a Lute by Agnolo Bronzino

September 5 – November 2, 2014

Adoration of the Shepherds by Lorenzo Lotto

June 17 – September 28, 2015

The Madonna of Pontassieve by Beato Angelico

September 19 – November 15, 2015

Capriccio with a Small Square by Francesco Guardi

April 8 – June 6, 2016

Saint Mark by Andrea Mantegna

May 28 – November 1, 2021

Saint George and the Dragon by Paolo Uccello

July 15 – October 15, 2023

Warsaw, Church of the Holy Cross by Bernardo Bellotto

May 11 – July 16, 2023

Cleopatra by Artemisia Gentileschi

May 14 – September 8, 2025

The Crucified Christ by Antoon van Dyck

June 18 — September 27, 2026

Minerva Infuses the Soul into the Human Figure Modeled in Clay by Prometheus

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A Guest at the Palace | “Cleopatra” by Artemisia Gentileschi

The Guest at the Palace initiative, promoted by the Art History Institute of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, was created through collaborations with some of the most prestigious Italian and international museum institutions. Conceived to temporarily enrich the museum holdings of Galleria di Palazzo Cini, the project features the exhibition of particularly important artworks granted on extraordinary loan and hosted for several months in the historic residence of Vittorio Cini, which houses the masterpieces of his remarkable art collection.

From 11 May to 16 July, the Gallery will host a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome 1593 – Naples 1652/1653) depicting Cleopatra, from the Cavallini Sgarbi Collection: the work by the famous painter, whose activity in Venice is documented from 1626 to 1630, will be on display in the Gallery’s rooms to coincide with the loan of a group of paintings from Ferrara, from the Palazzo Cini collection, to the exhibition ‘Ercole de’ Roberti and Lorenzo Costa’, which will be held in Ferrara in early 2023.

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Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting Cleopatra – depicting one of the most fascinating figures of antiquity – embodies the theme of the exemplum virtutis of the heroine who chose death by the lethal bite of an asp rather than suffer public humiliation.

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Portrayed in three-quarter profile, with her right arm stretched forward, the protagonist melodramatically displays her voluptuous nakedness, so that within this visually striking depiction, a sense of pain and heroism is overlaid with an irrepressible erotic charge.

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The vigorous and sensual Cleopatra – in whose face one has thought to recognise the features of Artemisia herself – is seated upon a red drape which, as has been noted, is beautifully harmonised with the ivory glow of her flesh and the dark shadow of her belly, left boldly exposed.

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The Egyptian queen’s tragic end is captured on the canvas with a theatrical gesture: in a mixture of suffering and languor, the woman brings the snake to her breast, parting her lips and raising her eyes to the sky as the beauty of her face gives way to a grimace.

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May 24 – July 21, 2014

Portrait of a Young Man with a Lute by Agnolo Bronzino

September 5 – November 2, 2014

Adoration of the Shepherds by Lorenzo Lotto

June 17 – September 28, 2015

The Madonna of Pontassieve by Beato Angelico

September 19 – November 15, 2015

Capriccio with a Small Square by Francesco Guardi

April 8 – June 6, 2016