Museo Correr
The Museo Correr or Museo Civico Correr is the city museum of Venice . It is housed in the Napoleonic wing of the Procuratie on St. Mark's Square opposite St. Mark's Basilica . The museum is named after the Venetian Teodoro Correr (1750–1830), who bequeathed his valuable collection of books, manuscripts, paintings and traditional arts and crafts to the city. The museum holds a total of around 12,000 manuscripts, but there is still no printed catalog, so the holdings are hardly ever included in research. This is likely to change with the online edition that has been built up since 2010. Today the museum has three collections.
Duration
The Teodoro Corrers Foundation documents the history of Venice in various cityscapes, historical pictures, documents, vedute from the Canaletto School, the library from the former Theatine monastery, ornate robes, coins and seals, as well as documents on the history of the sea and historical weapons. The collection came about at a time when many families had to sell their holdings, which enabled Correr to purchase a large number of works. The Corrers Foundation is joined by Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna's , which was created on the basis of a small fortune at a time when numerous holdings had long been sold abroad and prices had risen. However, as a connoisseur of Venetian culture and history, Cicogna collected more specifically than Correr.
The holdings are divided into different fondi . The Fondo Correr from 1830 has 1533 signatures. The cataloging was done by the first director Vincenzo Lazzari . In 1861 the Fondo Malvezzi , donated by Giuseppe Maria Malvezzi, was added and consists of 160 manuscripts. The founder died on April 15, 1884. Lazzari also compiled a catalog here. In 1866 the Fondo Cicogna was added. With his limited resources, Cicogna had acquired over 4,000 manuscripts and around 40,000 printed works, including 750 editions by Boccaccio . Giuseppe Giordani worked on the recording until 1869. Today there are 3,823 manuscripts of Cicognas in the Museo Correr.
In 1879 the Fondo Gradenigo-Dolfin was added to the museum, a collection of 1230 manuscripts written by Contessa Elena Maria Gradenigo , born on February 8, 1879 . Dolfin , bequeathed. By handing it over to the museum, the Countess and Lady of the Star Cross satisfied the wish of her husband Vincenzo Domenico Gradenigo, which he had recorded in his will of July 20, 1869. The core of the collection goes back to Pietro Gradenigo (1695–1776). In 1903 Daniele Ricciotti Bratti published the corresponding catalog. Similar to the other catalogs, this one is now also available on the Internet. In 1881 there was another foundation by the Conti Francesco Lodovico and Lorenzo Donà dalle Rose, which accordingly merged into the Fondo Donà dalle Rose . This goes back to collections of the Tron and Donà families. The employee of the Museo Giuseppe Nicoletti succeeded in cataloging the approximately 500 manuscripts by 1882. Many of the pieces were acquired by Leonardo Donà (1536–1612) or composed himself.
In 1885, Michele Wcovich Lazzari (1814–1886) bequeathed an inventory that today forms the Fondo Wcovich Lazzari ; the delivery of the 5000 manuscripts and prints was done by his widow Caterina Campagnella. In 1891 the museum acquired the Fondo Morosini Grimani , a family whose last member, Loredana Morosini Gatterburg, died in 1884. In 1891 the Venetian part of the heirs agreed to leave the stock to the Correr gratuitamente , but the Austrian part demanded payment. This led to processes at the end of which the museum received 2,418 books and 607 manuscripts from the Palazzo Morosini di Santo Stefano . The collection was largely due to the Doge Francesco Morosini (1619–1694). The inventory was made by Bartolomeo Cecchetti , Director of the State Archives. The term Fondo Provenienze Diverse is used to summarize holdings that have different origins. This includes 3430 signatures.
The second part of the collection can be seen in the picture gallery. It comprises a considerable number of works, including what is arguably the best-known painting in the Museo Correr entitled Two Venetian Women by Vittore Carpaccio , which in the 19th century was mistaken for the representation of two courtesans .
The Museo del Risorgimento e dell'Ottocento Veneziano is the third section of the Museo Correr . The history of Venice from the end of the republic to the unification of Italy in the 19th century is documented here in historical pictures, costumes, documents, engravings, etc.
literature
- Giorgia Pivato: Il Museo Correr. Fonti, documenti e disegni per una storia inedita dei primi anni (1830-1864) , tesi di laurea, Università Ca 'Foscari, Venice 2016 ( online ).
- Barbara Vanin: I manoscritti medievali in lingua volgare della Biblioteca del Museo Correr di Venezia , tesi di laurea, Università Ca 'Foscari, Venice 2010 (with descriptions of 92 manuscripts in Volgare) ( online ).
- Thorsten Droste: Venice. DuMont art travel guide. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7701-3582-2 , p. 313.
Rudolph v. Eitelberger: The baptismal font in the Museo Correr in Venice. In: Mittheilungen der Kaiserl. royal Central Commission for Research and Conservation of Architectural Monuments. Volume 2, No. 11, November 1857, pp. 287–289 ( online at digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de), (category with associated images on Commons )
Web links
- Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
- Arts and Culture Google
- Biblioteca del Museo Correr - Venezia
- Catalogo , digital catalog on the Museo Correr website
Remarks
- ↑ A digital catalog is available on the Internet: Catalogo ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Museo Correr
- ↑ Vincenzo Lazzari: Indice dei manoscritti di storia veneta e di altre materie posseduti dall'avvocato Giuseppe M. Malvezzi. Venice 1861.
- ^ Foglio di Verona , 1840, p. 1 . Allgemeine Zeitung , 1840, p. 22 .
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 1 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 13.8 ″ E