💓 Love in Venice 💕
This exhibition is part of Carnegie Hall’s citywide festival
La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic
La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic
Lovers and Chaperone Meeting on the Venetian Canal - Giacomo Mantegazza
Dominated by a merchant capitalist elite who did
business through sea trade, the Republic of Venice enjoyed an autonomy
and freedom that was not typical of the rest of Italy, and which for
centuries made it a destination for love and pleasure.
Casanova at dinner.
Watercolor by Auguste Leroux (1871-1954)
from the 1932 French edition of Casanova’s Histoire de ma Vie
On
view will be works as diverse as the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,
one of the most iconic works produced in Venice to explore ideas of
desire, to flap books showing the undergarments of Venetian prostitutes,
etchings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, letters from Lord Byron’s
paramours and examples of wedding poetry celebrating the unions of
leading European families.Watercolor by Auguste Leroux (1871-1954)
from the 1932 French edition of Casanova’s Histoire de ma Vie
Braille and large-type versions of the information in the gallery are available at the info desk in Astor Hall.
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