From Might 30 to September 1, 2025, the Frist Artwork Museum presents the exhibition “Venice and the Ottoman Empire”
Supply: Frist Artwork Museum · Picture: Vittore Carpaccio. “Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan” (element), 1501–05. Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
This formidable cross-cultural exhibition explores the connection between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, two rival superpowers within the Mediterranean, over 4 centuries (1400–1800) and in a number of spheres: creative, culinary, diplomatic, financial, political, and technological. The exhibition involves a spectacular conclusion with a gallery devoted to Mariano Fortuny’s Ottoman-inspired fashions and ornamental arts created in his Venetian palazzo within the early twentieth century.
That includes greater than 150 artistic endeavors in a broad vary of media, together with glass, work, prints, metalwork, and textiles, the exhibition attracts from the huge collections of Venice’s storied civic museums. The Venetian loans are joined by a trove of just lately salvaged objects from a significant Adriatic shipwreck, the massive Venetian service provider ship Gagliana Grossa that sank whereas touring from Venice to Istanbul in 1583. These fascinating objects have by no means been exhibited outdoors Croatia, the place the wreck occurred. Organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the museum field.
