Today at the Museum of Architecture presents an exhibition of photos of Italian late XIX - early XX century, the main "hero" who is the Grand Canal in Venice

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Today at the Museum of Architecture exhibition at the Shchusev «Canal Grande. The main street of Venice, Italy pictures late XIX - early XX century ».

Venice, founded in the Middle Ages, the islands came into the cultural consciousness of Europe as the center of an amazing and unique architecture. The city where the streets have taken the place of habitual channels, does not cease to occupy the imagination of artists, photographers and tourists.

All features the city's main street combines the Grand Canal - Canal Grande, cutting through the wavy line map of Venice. Grand Canal has become a major transport artery of the city, it housed administrative offices and the relevant trade area formed. Here are traditionally built their houses representatives of the wealthiest and most aristocratic families of Venice, which made its shores in the exhibition of the best kind of palace facades of northern Italy. It is no accident, local residents called it the "Canal palace».

architectural structures that process the shore of the Grand Canal, can trace the changing styles of Venetian palace architecture - from the Gothic and Renaissance to Neoclassicism and historicism. It's the best works of Mauro Kodussi, Jacopo Sansovino, Antonio da Ponte, Baltassare Long and other Italian architects.

collection, which will be presented at the Museum of Architecture, at the level comparable with world-famous collection of Italian museum Photo Alinari. Here you can find unique items - original photos by the famous Italian photo shops Alinari, Anderson, Salviati. Together these works, many of which were created at the dawn of photography, in 1850, 70 years, form the architectural image of the Grand Canal. It's true masterpieces of photographic art, which are among the best pictures of Venice. The exhibition will feature rare and the Grand Canal - pictures, hand-painted and reminiscent of painterly technique.

exhibition is an unprecedented event in the cultural life of Moscow: most of the unique items that have no analogues in Russian and foreign museums, will be shown for the first time.

Source: muar.ru