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lamarchesacasati · 11 months

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The secret life of Venice

Favourite spot

Home - the Palazzo Papadopoli. We have always lived here, since we were born. We live on the top floor, and the rest of the palace is now the Aman hotel.

We'd rather not tell you about...

...Trattoria Antiche Carampane, which serves the absolute best granseola tagliolini (spider-crab pasta).

Top tip

Naranzaria, a tiny osteria next to the Rialto bridge, is a brilliant stop for an Aperol Spritz

Best buys

Our father's [Count Giberto's] handmade Murano glasses. Or our slippers, of course...(x)

#venice #travel #guggenheim venice #secret venice #favourite spot #things to do #top tip #best buys #guggenheim

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themotifeye · 3 months

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Henri Laurens,

Head of a Young Girl,

1920

#Henri Laurens venice Guggenheim

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ciclossigenasi · 2 months

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Garden bench - Jenny Holzer

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venezia, 2022

#peggy guggenheim #garden bench #jenny holzer #venice #venezia #quotes #art #love

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thevisualvamp · 6 months

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Let’s go

#venice #venezia #peggy guggenheim #museum

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one’s imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute-playing and singing.

- Peggy Guggenheim

#guggenheim #peggy guggenheim #quote #venice #venezia #travel #italy #city #femme #beauty #gondola

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desimonewayland · 4 months

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Luisa Casati and mystery companion in the garden of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni - Luisa Casati, started to live in the famously unfinished palazzo in 1910.

Luisa was one of the wealthiest women in Italy, having inherited her father’s industrial fortune. As the wife of the Marchese Camillo Casati, she was allied to the highest ranks of Italian nobility. Yet after falling under the spell of the notorious writer and aesthete Gabriele D’Annunzio, Luisa had turned her back on conventional society and, with a passion that bordered on profound eccentricity, vowed to turn her life into a work of art.

Venice was to be her theatre, the romantically derelict Venier palazzo her stage. Luisa hired an army of workmen to transform the interior into a dazzle of marble, glass and gold, but she was determined to retain the building’s dirty, overgrown and crumbling exterior.

Further evidence of Luisa’s maverick taste was revealed in the menagerie of pets that she began to gather around her — parrots, monkeys, snakes and peacocks, plus a flock of albino blackbirds that she would dye different colours to suit her mood. Most beloved of these pets was the elegantly spotted cheetah that accompanied her everywhere.

Photo: Mariano Fortuny, Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei – Museo Fortuny © Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia / via: Christie's

Today the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni now the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice named after its last resident.

#luisa casati #mariano fortuny #early 20th century #venice #peggy guggenheim

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peoplematchingartworks · 11 months

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#peoplematchingartworks #jackson pollock #peggy guggenheim #stefandraschan #photography #contemporaryart #venice

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the-cricket-chirps · 7 months

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Peggy Guggenheim, 1952. Peggy Guggenheim Album, Private Collection. Photo: Eugene Kolb

Peggy Guggenheim, wearing Alexander Calder earrings

#peggy guggenheim #alexander calder #modern art #art history #art collectors #earrings #jewelry #art jewelry #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #calder #venice #art collection #Guggenheim collection #beauty

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mote-historie · 10 months

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Jackson Pollock, The Moon Woman, 1942

Oil on canvas, 175.2×109.3cm.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.

Like other members of the New York School, Jackson Pollock was influenced in his early work by Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, and seized on the Surrealists’ concept of the unconscious as the source of art. In the late 1930s Pollock introduced imagery based on totemic or mythic figures, ideographic signs, and ritualistic events. The Moon Woman recalls Picasso, particularly in its palette and composition. The subject of the moon woman, which Pollock treated in several drawings and paintings of the early 1940s, could have been available to him from various sources. At this time many artists, among them Pollock’s friends William Baziotes and Robert Motherwell, were influenced by the fugitive, hallucinatory imagery of Charles Baudelaire and the French Symbolists. In his prose poem “Favors of the Moon” Baudelaire addresses the “image of the fearful goddess, the fateful godmother, the poisonous nurse of all the moonstruck of the world.” Although it is possible that Pollock knew the poem, it is likelier that he was affected in a more general way by the interest in Baudelaire and the Symbolists that was pervasive during the period. (x)

#jackson pollock #painting #1942 #the moon woman #pollock #peggy guggenheim #guggenheim #museum #peggy guggenheim collection #venice

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artwithjej · 1 month

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