GX1993.271

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 50; Larghezza: 21

vetro colorato- soffiatura

The son of a Murano glassmaker, Zecchin attended the Accademia di Venezia, later devoting himself not only to painting but also to the applied arts: from glass to mosaics, from embroidery to tapestries, from furniture to ceramics. In 1912 he began his collaboration with Teodoro Wolf Ferrari, an artist trained within the Munich Secession, with whom he exhibited in Munich in 1913 and at the Venice Biennale in 1914 a series of small plates and Murrini vases made by the Barovier Artists. Dating from the same period is this vase, decorated with murrine, a technique dating back to Roman times that involved the preliminary preparation of a glass rod, composed of concentric layers of dear colours, which was subsequently cut into small segments. This vase is reminiscent of another significant piece of Zecchin's artistic production, preserved at the Wolfsoniana: the black lacquered oak sideboard with gilded carvings depicting fish on a seabed. Oblong coloured glass vase decorated with small spirals and geometric motifs.

1899

GX1993.81a,b

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 185; Larghezza: 70; Profondità: 70

noce con intarsi in legni e metalli diversi, rame sbalzato, pergamena

Signed on the base, as was the artist's custom, and dated on one of the doors “March 12, 1899,” the cabinet is decorated on the base by figurative elements typical, as in the case of dragonflies, of Bugatti's production, who had already participated in the 1898 National Exhibition in Turin, imposing his unprecedented style through Moorish-style furniture, inlaid and covered with parchment. The cabinet, the casket of which is internally wrapped in velvet, has four doors on the top with corolla openings and a central decoration with embossed copper circles; the base, on the other hand, develops vertically with an architectural structure enriched with naturalistic figurative elements, including dragonflies.

GX1993.126

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 77; Larghezza: 115; Profondità: 65

legno di noce intarsiato-intagliato

One of the leading students of Otto Wagner's school, which also trained Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann, architect Leopold Bauer, originally from Silesia but working in Vienna, won the 1900 Haus eines Kunstfreundes competition organised by art publisher Alexander Koch, who had founded the magazine Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration in Darmstadt in 1897 . His cabinet is decorated with an inlay depicting a pair of dancers, executed by the Viennese Secessionist painter Maximilian Lenz, which can also be found on the doors of one of his contemporary chests of drawers and, curiously, also appears on a door in the music room designed in 1898 by Joseph Maria Olbrich in the Austrian capital. The walnut and brass cabinet is decorated with a mother-of-pearl, wood and ivory inlay depicting a pair of dancers on each rectangular panel.

3383

Unità di misura: m; Altezza: 1.5; Larghezza: 2.1; Lunghezza: 0.33

legno

Wooden brigantine model.

4380

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 50; Larghezza: 30; Lunghezza: 70

legno- assemblaggio, intaglio

Wooden model of a ship.

2241

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 26,5; Larghezza: 32

acquaforte

The studies of the Renaissance Humanists flowed into numerous treatises on naval art that saw the light of day during the 17th and 18th centuries. Starting from mythological iconography, scholars and artists proposed nautical solutions - especially on the ergonomics of rowing - that were sometimes fanciful and difficult to apply. Etching pasted on cardboard depicting various studies and sections of trireme.

C51

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 51; Larghezza: 63

gouache in b-n

From the second half of the 19th century, generic marine paintings gave way to “yacht portraits” depicting precise boats, identifiable in their shapes, sails and colours. These subjects, created by the great British masters of marine painting, belong to a typology that is almost unobtainable in Italy and are the result of a fashion that during the 19th century prompted ship-owners and sailing ship captains to commission professional painters to paint portraits of their vessels.
The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and belonged to the collector Beppe Croce: part of his collection can now be admired at the Galata Museo del Mare, in a room reproducing the interior of a late 19th-century English yacht club, inspired by the legendary Royal Yacht Squadron, the most prestigious nautical club in the United Kingdom. Gouache painting in shades of black and white depicting a group of men on board a yacht, caught in the act of greeting the people on board two boats passing by to the left in the background.

1950

Unità di misura: UNR

carta stampaggio

Map collection.

1998

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 40; Larghezza: 30

stampaggio

Collection of views and perspective plans of important european cities.

2030

Unità di misura: UNR

stampaggio

Collection of maps.