Sentences with phrase «on grand canal»

The Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal in Venice has played host to Henry James, who used it as the setting of The Wings of the Dove; to Isabella Stewart Gardner, who designed her museum in Boston to mimic the space's splendor; to other members of the Boston Brahmin, who brought over guests such as John Singer Sargent and Robert Browning; and to centuries of Venetian elite, who occupied the opulent confines since it opened in 1465, which was, you know, a few decades before the Italian Christopher Columbus came to America.

The collectors tend to be the most high - profile, with Elton John a regular sighting (he has a home in the city), and fashion billionaires Miuccia Prada and François Pinault (husband of actress Salma Hayek and owner of Gucci) hosting exhibitions in their palazzos on the Grand Canal.

She completed many large commissions in Europe and America, including gates made of wire and colored glass beads for Peggy Guggenheim's home on the Grand Canal in Venice.

The building is the last palazzo on the Grand Canal having been built after the collapse of Venice Republic in 1797.

Perhaps the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the twentieth century, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is located in its founder's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice.

In the 1700s, princes, popes and others of high rank commissioned large «view paintings» of ceremonies and important moments — a regatta on the Grand Canal, an eruption of Mount Vesuvius — in Paris, Venice, London and other notable spots.

Robert De Niro remembers stopping to see her collection in her palazzo on the Grand Canal when he was a young backpacker thumbing his way across Europe.

No photograph could possibly replicate his depiction of the late afternoon sun on the Grand Canal, or the watery light of a rain - splattered St Mark's Square.

In 1948, she was invited to exhibit her collection in the disused Greek Pavilion of the Venice Biennale and in 1949 established herself in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni («unfinished palazzo of the lions») on the Grand Canal.

The Fondazione Prada, at the Ca» Corner della Regina palace on the Grand Canal, has done more than revisit the 1969 exhibition in Venice this week.

Currently the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation owns and operates the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal in Venice, and provides programming and management for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Currently the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation owns and operates the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal in Venice, and also provides programming and management for two other museums in Europe that bear its name: the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin.

Housed in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice, its collection consists of Peggy's personal holdings, augmented by masterpieces from the Nasher Sculpture Garden and the Gianni Mattioli Collection.

After divorcing Ernst in 1946, she closed The Art of This Century Gallery and returned to Europe, opting to settle in Venice, Italy, where the modernist Guggenheim Venice Art Museum was duly opened in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal.

Currently, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation owns and operates the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal in Venice, and also provides programming and management for two museums in Europe that bear its name: the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin.

Currently the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation owns and operates the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue, New York City, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.

During the opening days of the Venice Biennale, in a classic hotel on the Grand Canal, U.S. artist Mark Bradford was reflecting on the issue of inclusive art history.

Designed by architect Giorgio Massari and completed in the second half of the 18th century on the Grand Canal, the neoclassical - style building of Palazzo Grassi was renovated in 2006 after a design by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

Located in the imposing Palazzo Falier on the Grand Canal, Land Sea will feature a broad selection of new works, many monumental in scale and conceived specifically for this exhibition, offering compelling insight into Sean Scully's recent practice and reaffirming his position as one of the leading figures of abstract painting.

A highly respected artist in the Bay Area, where she taught alongside Clyfford Still and Richard Diebenkorn at the California School of Fine Arts (later the San Francisco Art Institute), Falkenstein moved to Paris in 1950 where she exhibited with Hans (Jean) Arp, Lucio Fontana and Alberto Giacometti; rubbed shoulders with Constantin Brancusi and Henry Moore; and received prestigious architectural commissions, including a stunning set of garden gates, made of welded metal and Murano glass, for Peggy Guggenheim's palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice.

This year has seen Lorenzo Quinn unveil his new monumental sculpture, Support, at the Ca» Sagredo Hotel on the Grand Canal for the duration of the Venice Biennale 2017 — 57th International Art Exhibition as well as The Four Loves in Berkeley Square and Love at Millbank in London.

In 2011 the Fondazione Prada opened a new exhibition space in Venice, Ca» Corner della Regina, an historic palazzo on the Grand Canal, which is going to be restored over the next years with the goal of offering a stimulating cultural program.

She is soon seen shopping at Missoni, hobnobbing with movie folk (most notably Jeremy Irons) at a reception at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal and padding around the collectors» apartment in her nightgown, wearing an eyeshade that reads «Princess.»

In this lesson Richard recreates this beautiful scene of a gondola on the Grand Canal from the grand master of Impressionism Claude Monet.

Divorcing Ernst and closing her gallery after the war, she returned to Europe and in 1948 bought the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal in Venice, turning it into her home and exhibition space and remaining there till she died in 1979.

With that money, she amassed one of the great collections of 20th - century modernist art, which she ultimately donated to her uncle Solomon's foundation, which maintains its New York Frank Lloyd Wright — designed museum, the Guggenheim Bilbao, an upcoming museum in Abu Dhabi, and Peggy's palazzo in Venice, which is open to the public and houses her collection in an enchanting setting on the Grand Canal.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, owned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and housed in the 17th century Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, world - renowned for its collection of European and American modern art.

The Museo di Storia Naturale (Natural History Museum) in Venice is a fascinating science museum housed in the Fondego dei Turchi palace on the Grand Canal

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the name not only of the collection of one of the most influential art patrons of the 20th Century, Peggy Guggenheim, but also of the Museum in Venice, which is housed in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice.

Palazzo Grassi was the last private residence to be built on the Grand Canal before the Republic of Venice fell in 1797.

The morning fog and condensation captured in the satin surfaces, the reflection of water, highlighted by flashes of metal, now occupy the beautiful spaces of Palazzo Franchetti, the stunning palace on the Grand Canal that is the official home of Fondazione Berengo.

Housed in a 17th century Baroque palace on the Grand Canal it is one of the eleven civic museums of the city.

Her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice remains one of the world's great art collections.

Jacir translated the names of each vaporetto station along Route 1 on the Grand Canal into Arabic, and proposed to place them alongside the existing Italian signs to create a bilingual transportation route through the city.

There is a Rolls - Royce pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale — a gorgeous palazzo on the Grand Canal with a garden full of scented roses.

For six years he worked away in private, and by September 2010 he was ready for his first solo exhibition, curated by Stefano Cecchetto at the Scoletta dell» Arte dei Tiraoro e Battioro, on the Grand Canal in Venice.

The Venetian works were made in response to the four noble rooms of Palazzo Fontana, a 16th century building located on the Grand Canal in Venice.

In 1949 she would immigrate to Italy, buying her famous palazzo on the Grand Canal, where she would also transform the cellars into an exhibition space.

There are not only her massive donations to a variety of museums, but the legendary Peggy Guggenheim collection in her Venetian palazzo on the Grand Canal, one of the most visited modern museums in the world, with some 326 works of art by 100 different artists.

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With private gardens — rarely found in Venice — and museum - worthy masterpieces, this 16th - century palazzo enjoys exceptional seclusion on the Grand Canal

Set to open on April 2 in a striking black - and - white geometric building on Grand Canal Dock, across the Liffey from the CCD convention centre, the Marker is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World.

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The Piazzetta San Marco is just in front of the Basilica with view on the Grand Canal.

Plus get VIP entry to selected major sights and cruises on the River Rhine and on the Grand Canal Venice.

Now the natural history museum recently renovated with dazzling white arches on the Grand Canal.

Just a short boat ride away are all the attractions of Venice itself, from St Mark's Square and the Doges Palace to museums, churches, palazzos and, of course, gondolas on the Grand Canal.

Situated on the Grand Canal in Kildare, just a thirty minute drive from Dublin, Cliff at Lyons is a collection of historic rose - clad buildings.

He was governor of a district on the Grand Canal for three years.