Copertina per la stampa UK 12-07-2007 17:13 Pagina 1 Lettera da San Giorgio Lettera da San Paolo Caliari called Veronese, The Wedding at Cana, Paris, Musée du Louvre Year IX, n° 17. Six-monthly publication. September 2007 – February 2008 Spedizione in A.P. Art. 2 Comma 20/C Legge 662/96 DC VE. Tassa pagata / Taxe perçue Copertina per la stampa UK 12-07-2007 17:13 Pagina 3 Contacts Programmes (September 2007 – February 2008) Copertina per la stampa UK 12-07-2007 17:13 Pagina 5 31 August – 6 September Course of Bharata Natyam dance by Raghunath Manet 3 – 7 November Course Interpreting Luigi Nono’s works for live electronics and tape Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore 1 September – 28 October Exhibition Rosalba “prima pittrice de l’Europa” 14 November Concert by the Accademia Musicale di San Giorgio Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio Paul Sacher Concerts Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore 1 September – 29 December Hello, Mr. Fogg! Round the world in music on fifty-two Saturdays Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio 15 – 16 November International Workshop The new forms of cultural co-operation in the globalised world 11 September Inauguration of the exhibition The Miracle of Cana. Originality through Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore re-production Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore 28 November Polyphonies “in viva voce” 11 Seminar Female Polyphonies from Georgia 12 – 14 September I Dialoghi di San Giorgio Concert by the ensemble Mzetamtze Inheriting the past. Tradition, translation, betrayal, innovation Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore 29 November Concert by the Ex Novo Ensemble 15 September – 30 September Exhibition Giuseppe Santomaso (1907-1990) 12 October – 16 December The Miracle of Cana. Originality through re-production Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore 5 – 6 December International Study Conference 19 – 22 September Third World Conference on the Future of Science: Energy Symbiosis almost osmosis Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore October Books at San Vio 30 November – 2 December Music from Iran AAA TAC and AAM TAC Course on Iranian percussion Zarb by Bijan Chemirani Venice, Palazzo Cini Gallery at San Vio Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore 17 October International Study Conference 5 – 6 December International Study Conference “Alla Liberalità deesi aggiungere un’altra Virtù, la quale fa un uso Eroico delle Giuseppe Santomaso (1907-1990) ricchezze: ed è la Magnificenza”. The Venetian patriciate and the arts from the 16th in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University, Venice to the 17th Century Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in collaboration with the Doctorate School of Humanistic Sciences, History and Art History Course, University of Trieste 22 December Concert by the Accademia Musicale di San Giorgio Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore Paul Sacher Concerts Venice, Teatro La Fenice 19 – 21 October Course of diphonic singing by Tran Quang Hai Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore November – January 2008 Courses of Ethnomusicology Foundations of research and documentation in ethnomusicology 23 – 25 October International Study Conference Filming music Artistic bronze production in Venice and Northern Italy during the Renaissance in collaboration with the G. Mazzariol Department of History of the Arts and Conservation Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore of the Artistic Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice Venice, Ca’ Bonvicini 25 October Homage to Alain Daniélou Concert by the former students of the Intercultural Institute for Comparative 20 – 25 January 2008 XXV Advanced Course Music Studies Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri School for Booksellers Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore 29 – 30 October International Study Conference 24 – 26 January 2008 14th International Seminar of Ethnomusicology Forms and currents of Western Esotericism Visual ethnomusicology Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore by Francesco Giannattasio and in collaboration with the G. Mazzariol Department of History of the Arts and Conservation of the Artistic Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice November Books at San Vio Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore Cenacoli. Circoli e gruppi letterari, artistici, spirituali Venice, Palazzo Cini Gallery at San Vio For further information: www.cini.it San Giorgio Lettera 17 UK 12-07-2007 18:05 Pagina 2 Contents I Programmes (September 2007 – February 2008) 3 Editorial Main Future Activities 4 Exhibition Rosalba “prima pittrice de l’Europa” 5 Hello, Mr. Fogg! Round the world in music on fifty-two Saturdays 6 Inauguration of the exhibition The Miracle of Cana. Originality through re-production 7 I Dialoghi di San Giorgio Inheriting the past. Tradition, translation, betrayal, innovation 8 Third World Conference on the Future of Science: Energy 9 International Study Conference Artistic bronze production in Venice and Northern Italy during the Renaissance 10 International Study Conference Forms and currents of Western Esotericism 10 Course Interpreting Luigi Nono’s works for live electronics and tape 11 International Workshop The new forms of cultural co-operation in the globalised world 12 Polyphonies “in viva voce” 11 Seminar Female Polyphonies from Georgia Concert by the ensemble Mzetamtze 12 International Seminar of Ethnomusicology Visual ethnomusicology 13 Books at San Vio Collections 14 Recent acquisitions by the Institute of Art History Library Projects and research 16 The Wedding at Cana facsimile Presences on San Giorgio 21 Paolo Veronese on San Giorgio 24 Publications III – IV Contacts San Giorgio Lettera 17 UK 12-07-2007 18:05 Pagina 2 Editorial “It’s a pity that you could not have spoken beneath the light and colour of one of the most prodigious colourist miracles of Venetian painting – The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese. Here it was in ideal harmony, or rather inspired symbiosis, with the composed architecture designed by Palladio for this Refectory. Veronese the painter, Palladio the architect, and André Malraux their poet”. This was how Vittorio Cini complimented André Malraux on his enlightening introduction to “The Secret of the Great Venetians”, a speech given at the Giorgio Cini Foundation on 17 May 1958 to officially open a series of seminars entitled “The Venetian Civilisation of the Baroque Age”.The feeling of loss after Napoleon’s commissars had removed the famous painting is something that can only be fully understood when you are standing in front of the bare wall in the Palladian Refectory, stripped of its masterpiece. Over the last hundred years, that feeling has driven many leading figures in Italian culture from Canova to Branca to attempt to retrieve the “colourist miracle” and place it back in its original setting.Today a previously apparently impossible undertaking has been completed and the “symbiosis” so deeply mourned by Vittorio Cini can finally be admired again. The leading players in this “miracle” are the visionary English artist, Adam Lowe, and his assistants in the Factum Arte workshop. They have made a one-to-one scale facsimile of The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese, reproducing the harmony of the composition, the detail of the paint and the variety of colours. The result cannot be distinguished with the naked eye from the original in the Louvre. On 11 September 2007 this incredible feat of technology and the imagination will be unveiled to the public, and the inspiring space of the Palladian Refectory will once again be enjoyed in its entirety.The museum of the Louvre played a key role in this remarkable recovery operation. Symbolically, the project completes the large-scale restoration works on the monumental complex on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, begun by Vittorio Cini over fifty years ago. By a nice coincidence, the work will be unveiled in the year of the 30th anniversary of the founder’s death. Our next commitment will be to promote the further development of the island, fully respecting its original vocation. This objective includes the projects for the Branca School, the completion of the large library in the Manica Lunga, the creation of extra exhibition spaces and the construction of a new residence, providing accommodation for students and researchers who will come to the Giorgio Cini Foundation from all over the world to enhance their education. President Giovanni Bazoli 3 San Giorgio Lettera 17 UK 12-07-2007 18:05 Pagina 4 Main Future Activities In her pastels Rosalba takes us to the threshold of interior life. Some of her most emblematic portraits are on show in the exhibition. Her faces are not easily forgotten, such as that of the prelate of Casa Le Blond (Venice, Accademia). He is permeated by a kind of intelligent thoughtfulness, the lips slightly stretched into a bitter twist in a grey-on-grey portrait that is a masterpiece of chromatic sobriety. But Rosalba Carriera 1 September – 28 October also portrayed herself. She did so several times throughout her career and more Exhibition Rosalba “prima pittrice de l’Europa” often than any other Venetian painter. The series of self-portraits form an impressive Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio sequence, directly illustrating her development towards a more introspective style, increasingly focused on the face, almost seen in isolation. In the first self-portrait, dating Following on from the international conference this spring, the Giorgio Cini from 1708-1709