North Carolina Museum of Art
September 28, 2024–January 5, 2025
This ambitious cross-cultural exhibition explores the relationship between two interconnectedEuropean empires over four centuries: the Republic of Venice and Ottoman Empire (1400–1800). Through 190 works representing diverse media, Venice and the Ottoman Empire documents interactions between the two rival Mediterranean states across multiple arenas—political, diplomatic, economic, artistic, technological, and culinary.
Vittore Carpaccio, Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan, 1501–5, tempera and oil on panel, 26.4 × 20.1 in., Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Museo
The exhibition includes paintings by Vittore Carpaccio and Gentile Bellini as well as an array of Venetian andOttoman textiles, ceramics, metalwork, glassware, armor, printed books, woodcuts, andleather wares.
More than half of the exhibition works come from one of seven Venetian museums: Palazzo Ducale, Museo Correr, Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Museo Fortuny, Museo del Vetro, Ca’ Rezzonico, and Gallerie dell’Accademia. Related works from the NCMA, Ackland Art Museum, and Gregg Museum of Art & Design broaden the visual representation of the cultures under examination.
A trove of luxury objects, never exhibited outside of Europe, recently salvaged from a major Adriatic shipwreck—the large Venetian merchant ship known as the Gagliana Grossa that sank en route from Venice to Istanbul in 1583.
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