Gallery sights in Vicenza
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Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari
From the outside it looks like a bank, but a treasure beyond accountants’ imagining awaits inside the Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari. Ascend past the nymphs along the extravagant stuccoed staircase to grand salons filled with Canaletto’s misty lagoon landscapes and Pietro Longhi society satires such as Tutors of Venier’s House, which shows a sassy child with hand on hip wearing out exasperated tutors collapsed in their chairs. Upstairs is Banca Intesa’s superb collection of some 400 Russian icons, gorgeously spotlit in darkened galleries with a recording of soft Gregorian chants setting the scene. Each room elicits audible gasps: bright-eyed saints haloed in si…
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Museo Civico
Save your Teatro Olimpico entry ticket for access to the Museo Civico, housed in one of Palladio’s finest buildings, designed in 1550 with a colonnaded ground floor and double-height loggia flanked by vast sun porches. The lavishly frescoed ground floor includes the ultimate baroque party room: the Sala dal Firmamento (Salon of the Skies), with Domenico Brusasorci’s ceiling fresco of Diana the moon goddess in her chariot, galloping across the sky to meet the sun. The upstairs painting galleries present works by Vicenza masters in the context of major works by Venetian masters (Veronese, Tiepolo, Tintoretto), Hans Memling’s minutely detailed Crucifix, action-packed works b…
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