From Bellini to Tiepolo: Venetia’s masterpieces from the Sorlini Foundation in Museum Correr
Until February 26, 2006 at Museum Civico Correr, Venice will be the exhibition: Venetia’s masterpieces from the Sorlini Foundation. This exhibition presents a rich selection of works from the vast Sorlini collection. These fifty Venetian paintings date from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. And it is usually hang in the various residences of the family. In a public exhibition they are brought together for the first time and it provides a most stimulating account of three centuries of art in the Venetian Republic. Therefore, this exhibition not only presents the public with an important collection of paintings produced in the Venetian Republic from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It is also charts the growth of the collection put together by Luciano and Agnese Sorlini. The fruit of a love of art and a passionate interest in culture, the collection began in the immediate post-war period, initially to provide works that would embellish the couples homes in Lombardy and the Veneto.