Call for Papers Libertinism and Spirituality: Between Desire and Rebellion Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice 16-18 December 2025 Deadline 30 June 2025. The term libertinism commonly refers to licentiousness, particularly of a sensual nature. In reality, however, libertinism has a long philosophical history rooted in antiquity, where freedom is paramount and sexuality and sensuality are secondary. […]
Venetiae, mundi splendor – Johannes Ciconia between Roma and Veneto, 1390-1412, the training event is part of the Early Music Seminars Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini and represents an opportunity for scientific reflection on the relationship between music and social diseases, between music and social discrimination following pandemic events such as the great plague of […]
Concert Venetiae, mundi splendor – Johannes Ciconia between Rome and Veneto, 1390-1412 In conjunction with the Early Music seminar, the Auditorium ‘Lo Squero’ will host a special concert featuring seven singers and instrumentalists selected by invitation and specialised in the late medieval repertoire. Under the guidance of Barbara Zanichelli and Pedro Memelsdorff, the scholars will […]
On Saturday, June 21, 2025, the Art Night Venezia initiative, conceived by Ca’Foscari University in close collaboration and partnership with the City of Venice, returns. The Fondazione Giorgio Cini is again participating in this year’s Art White Night by extending until 10 p.m. the opening of the Palazzo Cini Gallery in San Vio, which is […]
Opened in 2011, the Duse Room is a permanent space dedicated to the memory of the great Italian actress. It was born out of a desire to make the precious heritage housed in the Duse Archive accessible through thematic displays. The Institute for Theater and Melodrama offers visitors a journey through the voices of others: […]
A selection of vocal and instrumental compositions by Antonio Vivaldi, performed by the students of the Vivaldi Academy, accompanies an imaginary narrative in which music evokes and reconstructs a possible encounter. Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), the foremost representative of Venetian music in his time, and Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798), the renowned adventurer and writer, never met: at […]
The conferenceis held on Friday, June 6, organized by the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute, is part of the annual thematic program Casanova, Venice and Europe. The art of improvisation and ornamentation, fundamental to Baroque performance practice, reached a level of extraordinary sophistication in the 18th century, closely linked to musical language, national styles, rhetoric, the […]
The exhibition Venezia e le epidemie s represents a central moment in the activities promoted by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini as part of the thematic itinerary Democracy and Pandemics. Set up in the Longhena Library, the exhibition, curated by the Institute for the History of the Venetian Society and State, traces a documentary path on […]
A new event organised by the Institute of Art History at the Castle of Monselice: on Wednesday, 4 June, a conference entitled “Il gusto dei ferraresi” nel collezionismo di Vittorio Cini (“The Taste of the Ferrarese” in the Collecting of Vittorio Cini) will take place. The conference “Il gusto dei ferraresi” nel collezionismo di Vittorio […]
On Saturday 31 May, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and the Venice section of the Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti are organizing a guided tour to discover the Vatican woods and chapels. The initiative includes a tactile experience to discover the heritage of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Reservations are required by 27 […]
