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Jan 19–Feb 20, 1971

Venice in Peril and Views of Venice: Canaletto-Whistler-Masson

Aldo Durazzi, High Waters at the Basilica of San Marco.

  • Aldo Durazzi, High Waters at the Basilica of San Marco.

  • Aldo Durazzi, The Fort of Sant’Andrea.

  • Aldo Durazzi, Motor Boats and Gondolie.

  • Aldo Durazzi, Traffic on the Grand Canal.

  • Views of Venice: Canaletto-Whistler-Masson and Venice in Peril, Installation View, 1971.

  • Aldo Durazzi, The Restoration Laboratory at San Gregorio.

  • Aldo Durazzi, Palazzo Mastelli.

  • Aldo Durazzi, One of Tullio Lombardo’s Four Angels, from the Church of San Martino.

  • Aldo Durazzi, Motor Boats.

  • Aldo Durazzi, Detail of the Floor at the Central Nave of the Basilica of San Marco.

  • Aldo Durazzi, Air View of Tidelands.

  • Aldo Durazzi, Gondola Garage in Orseolo Basin.

  • Aldo Durazzi, High Waters Near the Column with the Lion of Saint Mark.

  • Giovanni Matteo Alberti, The Grand Canal from Giuochi Festivi, 1686.

  • Aldo Durazzi, The Floor at the Central Nave of the Basilica of San Marco.

  • Aldo Durazzi, Detail of Gondola Garage in Orseolo Basin.

  • Aldo Durazzi, Traffic on the Grand Canal.

  • Views of Venice: Canaletto-Whistler-Masson and Venice in Peril, Installation View, 1971.

  • Aldo Durazzi, A Cargo Ship Passing through the Basin of San Marco.

  • Aldo Durazzi, High Waters at the Piazza San Marco.

  • Aldo Durazzi, High Waters at the Basilica of San Marco.

  • Aldo Durazzi, Detail of the Fort of Sant’Andrea.

  • Views of Venice: Canaletto-Whistler-Mason is a loan exhibition from the print and drawing department of the Art Institute of Chicago and shows Venice through the eyes of the 18th, 19th and 20th century artists.

    The second part of the exhibition, Venice in Peril, is a photographic documentatation, organized by the International Fund for Monuments, of the present condition of the city and the progress being made in restoring its famous works of art. The striking photographs of Aldo Durazzi, photographer for Time ,Inc., take us behind the idyllic and romantic facade of the lovely city to reveal a grave urban crisis and the deterioration of its irreplacable art.

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