Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro explained
The Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro is an art museum located in the Ca' d'Oro on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.
History
The Baron Giorgio Franchetti (1865–1922), was born to a prominent family of Turin. Initially trained in a military school, he preferred the study of music and collecting art. He married in 1890 the Baroness Maria Hornstein Hohenstoffeln. However, by 1891 he had moved to Venice, and there soon purchased the then dilapidated Ca' d'Oro and set upon restoring the building, as possible, to its 15th-century layout.
Franchetti also traveled widely to purchase objects for the palace, including in Paris the palace's original well head (1427) by Bartolomeo Bon. He supervised much of the restoration, added the mosaic floor collections, and constructed a chapel to house his Mantegna St Sebastian. The inner courtyard mosaic was designed by the Baron himself. His grandson helped further his wish, stated in 1916, to make the house and his collection a museum. The palace officially became a museum inaugurated on January 18, 1927.[1]
Notable works
See also The Baron's collection form the nucleus of the displays, which are augmented by other works from local buildings. The Baron's tomb is on the premises. Among the works on display are:[2]
- Apollo del Belvedere by Jacopo Bonacolsi also called l'Antico
- Medal depicting Leonello d'Este by Pisanello
- Medal depicting Gianfrancesco Gonzaga
- Medal depicting Vittorino da Feltre
- Madonna and Child (15th century) by Michele Giambono
- Madonna and Child (15th century) by the studio of Alvise Vivarini
- Madonna della Misericordia and Stories of St Bartholemew, polyptych by Simone da Cusighe
- Wooden ceiling from Palazzo Giustiniani alla Fava
- Bronze statuette of Winged Victory
- Bronze statuette of Bacchus and Pomona by Pierino da Vinci
- Bronze statuette of Winged Mercury by the school of Giambologna
- Annunciation, Visitation, and Death of the Virgin (early 16th century) by Vittore Carpaccio
- Christ of Piety between to Angels (1529) by Marco Palmezzano
- Four Doctors of the Church (late 15th century) by Carlo Braccesco
- Coronation of the Virgin by Andrea di Bartolo
- Wedding Plate with scene of Ercole al Bivio by Gerolamo di Giovanni di Benvenuto
- Birth Plate by Domenico di Bartolo
- Madonna and Child by Francesco Botticini
- Crucifixion by Giovanni Boccati
- Story of Lucretia by Biagio di Antonio Tucci
- Portrait of Marcello Durazzo (1622–1627) by Anthony van Dyck
- Portrait of Procurator Nicolò Priuli (1545) by Jacopo Tintoretto
- Venus before Mirror by Titian
- Venus Sleeping by Paris Bordone
- Bust of Procurator Marino Grimani by Alessandro Vittoria
- David and Bathsheba (16th century) Belgian tapestry
- St Sebastian by Andrea Mantegna
- Double marble portrait by Tullio Lombardo
- Charity of San Martin by Andrea Briosco also called il Riccio
- Madonna and Child, marble sculpture by Jacopo Sansovino
- Last Supper, marble sculpture attributed to Tullio Lombardo St Jerome in prayer attributed to Daniel Hopfer Mourning over the Dead Christ attributed to the school of Dürer
- Crucifixion by Jan van Eyck
- Sleeping Woman by Gabriël Metsu
- Winter Landscape by Adriaen van de Velde
- Veduta di mare con vascelli by Willem van de Velde the younger
- Exile of Adam and Eve from Paradise, Christ and the Samaritan, and Christ and the Magdalen, frescoes by Pordenone
- Virtues, frescoes by Domenico Campagnola
- Facade frescoes (degraded) by Titian for Fondaco dei Tedeschi
- Rio della Plata, terracotta model for Fountain of the Four Rivers, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Mythologic subjects, terracotta by Stefano Maderno Sketches for Telamons for Library of San Giovanni e Paolo by Giacomo Piazzetta
- Veduta of the Piazetta towards San Giorgio by Francesco Guardi
- Veduta of the Wharf towards the Salute by Francesco Guardi
Notes and References
- http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giorgio-franchetti_(Dizionario_Biografico)/ Enciclopedia Treccani
- Web site: Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at the Ca' d'Oro Collections. Museums of Venice . November 2, 2009 . December 5, 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131205102454/http://www.polomuseale.venezia.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/154/collezioni .
