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Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect and designer. He was influenced by the materials, landscape, and history of Venetian culture, as well as that of Japan. [ 1 ] Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the techniques of the artist and craftsman into ingenious glass and ...
On the first floor is the museum's most famous work, the Virgin Annunciate, by Antonello da Messina (15th century), considered a masterpiece of High Renaissance paintings. Also present are three panels with St. Augustine , St. Gregory the Great and St. Jerome also by Antonello, once part of a polyptych now destroyed, and Vouet's Saint Agatha's ...
Restoration by the architect Carlo Scarpa between 1959 and 1973 has enhanced the appearance of the building and exhibits. Scarpa's architectural style is visible in the details for doorways, staircases, furnishings, and even fixtures designed to hold a specific piece of artwork. The renovation carefully balanced new and old, revealing the ...
Josef Hoffmann (15 December 1870 – 7 May 1956) was an Austrian-Moravian architect and designer.He was among the founders of Vienna Secession and co-establisher of the Wiener Werkstätte.
The entrance hall was restored in 1936 by the great Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. On that occasion Scarpa designed: the glass wall entrance, which reminds the window of the great hall on the second floor; the benches (with the typical T-shape pattern present in other works by Carlo Scarpa) the handrail of the nineteenth-century stairway; the ...
The museum has a substantial art collection, specially of masterpieces of Venetian Baroque and Rococo, including paintings by Giovanni Bellini (Presentation at the Temple), Pietro Longhi, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Giulio Carpioni, Federico Cervelli, Matteo Ghidoni, Pietro and Alessandro Longhi, Pietro Muttoni, (also called della Vecchia), and Marco and Sebastiano Ricci among others.
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Sergio Los (27 May 1934 – 7 November 2024) was an Italian architect and educator. He is considered one of the main interpreters of the Regional Bioclimatic Architecture, a design philosophy developed during the seventies (1972–1979) at the University Iuav of Venice under the pressure of the environmental and energy crisis.