Edition of 30 copies (deluxe version); edition of 50 copies (economical version)
Portfolio closed: 17 ¾” x 12 ¾” x ½”; portfolio open 17 ¾” x 26”; stencils, maps, and indexes 17” x 11”; acrylic zipped envelope 19” x 12 ½”
2023
This geography adds a challenge to finding specific monuments and works of art, assuming they will be open once you get there, never a given for any number of reasons, including strikes, restoration or seasonal hours. Calling ahead is helpful. In addition, in Italy it is not unusual for public museums or parks to stop selling tickets 30 minutes before closing time.
As in many other European cities, works of art often live in churches as opposed to just art museums. In Venice there are also a series of trade guilds known as “scuole” with spectacular art inside, and a number of foundations, archives and monumental libraries with permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. Some important Venetian art is in private homes. But occasionally private spaces fling their doors open to the public when they are rented for exhibitions, such as during the Biennale art and architecture shows.
VeneTron allows art enthusiasts to use stencils to mark a map with 50 locations of publicly accessible paintings by Venetian artists Giovanni Bellini, Vittore Carpaccio, Rosalba Carriera, Giulia Lama, Jacopo Tintoretto, Tiziano Vecellio and Paolo Veronese. The number of works (dots) for each artist is a bit misleading. It doesn’t show works that were destroyed or have gone missing, or works residing in collections across the globe. Rosalba Carriera has only three venues in Venice with publicly accessible works, but has numerous works in museums around the world. From Venice to Paris and Vienna, visitors and residents, including kings and emperors, commissioned hundreds of portraits. Some art may yet be found and correctly attributed. This is especially true of women artists of past centuries. Several important Venetian works by Giulia Lama were destroyed or are missing, and others are in the Uffizi and abroad. Works of uncertain attribution by various artists were also excluded from this survey.
The 50 marked venues represent only a portion of the remarkable art and architecture in Venice, much of which was executed by unnamed artisans and artists in marble, glass, gold and mosaic on walls, ceilings and floors over 1,000 years ago.
The QR codes of the map and of this description and index permit you to print as many 11” x 17” copies as necessary. Original map and description printed by Opero srl in Verona, Italy on acid-free Tintoretto paper produced by Cartiere Fedrigoni. Thirty deluxe copies housed in portfolios hand-printed with sea sponges, blotters and water-based pigments. Stencils laser-cut in Italy. Research of the 50 art locations carried out as Faculty Artist in Residence at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia in 2015.
Artist’s note:
The above information is included within the work itself. Some conceptual details that may not be apparent: the title VeneTron, alludes to a machine, such as a binary system which functions as a protocomputer, but was also chosen because of the once powerful Tron family in Venice, which had a Doge – the supreme leader of the Venetian Republic.
The stencils and maps of the deluxe edition are housed in a Venetian linen handkerchief, some of which bear the embroidered letters S and R for Serenissima Repubblica, as the maritime city-state of Venice was once known. While stencils allow the viewer to mark the art locations of each artist with dots, the act of using a stencil to mark each artist’s name reflects the use of stencils in Venice for painted street signs, such as the Rio Tera’ indicated above. This is also why stencils of gondolas were utilized to decorate the “artist’s portfolio” of the deluxe edition, adopting sea sponges for the ocean spray effect, with pigments in the sea foam range. The sea sponges come from an Italian company called Bellini. Though printed in Italy, the map and index are cut to size (11” x 17”) in order to fit perfectly on U.S. photocopy machines, allowing for communities or classes a chance to use the stencils.
If in Venice, one can also visit art grouped in each of the six neighborhoods, known as sestieri, derived from the Latin word for six. The index displays the artist’s typographic innovation of utilizing a dotted line representing the Grand Canal to separate three sestieri on each side. This is a helpful tool to understand how Venice is laid out, but this information will not keep you from getting lost.
The edition was created in two formats: the deluxe in thirty signed and numbered copies with a sponge-painted/stenciled artist’s portfolio, Venetian embroidered handkerchief, and seven stencils and maps; the economical edition in 50 copies with an acid-free clear envelope housing the seven stencils in the zipped pouch and one map and one index housed in the side pocket. The deluxe edition includes the economical edition to allow for/encourage community usage.
Indexes of artists and artwork locations:
Giovanni Bellini (c 1430 -1516)
Fondazione Querini Stampalia – 8
I Frari – 32
Gallerie dell’Accademia – 40
Museo Correr – 19
Palazzo Ducale – 20
San Francesco della Vigna – 10
San Giovanni Crisostomo – 5
San Salvador – 24
San Zaccaria – 14
Santi Giovanni e Paolo – 16
Murano: San Pietro Martire – 50
Vittore Carpaccio (c 1465 -1525)
Galleria Franchetti – 1
Gallerie dell’Accademia – 40
Museo Correr – 19
Palazzo Ducale – 20
San Giorgio Maggiore – 21
San Vidal – 25
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni – 17
Rosalba Carriera (1673 -1757)
Ca’ Rezzonico – 39
Gallerie dell’Accademia – 40
San Trovaso – 46
Giulia Lama (1681-1747)
Gallerie dell’Accademia – 40
Museo Correr – 19
San Marziale – 7
San Vidal – 25
Santa Maria Formosa – 15
Lido: Chiesa dell’Assunta a Malamocco – 49
Jacopo Tintoretto (1518 -1594)
Biblioteca Marciana – 18
Galleria Franchetti – 1
Gallerie dell’Accademia – 40
I Gesuati – 41
I Gesuiti – 2
Madonna dell’Orto – 3
Museo Correr – 19
Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra – 9
Palazzo Ducale – 20
San Cassiano – 33
San Felice – 4
San Giorgio Maggiore – 21
San Giuseppe di Castello – 11
San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti – 12
San Marcuola – 6
San Marziale – 7
San Moise – 23
San Polo – 35
San Rocco and Scuola di San Rocco – 36/38
San Silvestro – 37
San Simeon Grande – 30
San Trovaso – 46
Santo Stefano – 28
Santa Maria dei Carmini – 47
Santa Maria Mater Domini – 31
Santa Maria del Giglio – 27
Santa Maria della Salute – 48
Murano: San Pietro Martire – 50
Tiziano Vecellio (c 1488 -1576)
Biblioteca Marciana – 18
I Frari – 32
Galleria Franchetti – 1
Gallerie dell’Accademia – 40
I Gesuiti – 2
Palazzo Ducale – 20
San Giovanni Elemosinario – 34
San Lio – 13
San Marziale – 7
San Salvador – 24
San Sebastiano – 45
Santa Maria della Salute – 48
Scuola Grande di San Rocco – 38
Paolo Veronese (1528 -1588)
Biblioteca Marciana – 18
Gallerie dell’Accademia – 40
Palazzo Ducale – 20
Il Redentore – 42
San Barnaba – 43
San Francesco della Vigna – 10
San Giacomo dell’Orio – 29
San Giuseppe di Castello – 11
San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti – 12
San Luca – 22
San Pantalon – 44
San Sebastiano – 45
San Zulian – 26
Santi Giovanni e Paolo – 16
Murano: San Pietro Martire – 50
Art locations in alphabetical order:
Museums, Archives and Foundations:
Biblioteca Marciana – 18
Ca’ Rezzonico – 39
Fondazione Querini Stampalia – 8
Galleria Franchetti – 1
Gallerie dell’Accademia – 40
Museo Correr – 19
Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra – 9
Palazzo Ducale – 20
Trade Guilds or Confraternities:
Scuola Grande di San Rocco – 38
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni – 17
Churches:
Chiesa dell’Assunta a Malamocco (Lido) – 49
I Frari – 32
I Gesuati – 41
I Gesuiti – 2
Il Redentore – 42
Madonna dell’Orto – 3
San Barnaba – 43
San Cassiano – 33
San Felice – 4
San Francesco della Vigna – 10
San Giacomo dell’Orio – 29
San Giuseppe di Castello -11
San Giorgio Maggiore – 21
San Giovanni Crisostomo – 5
San Giovanni Elemosinario – 34
San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti – 12
San Lio – 13
San Luca – 22
San Marcuola – 6
San Marziale – 7
San Moise – 23
San Pantalon – 44
San Pietro Martire (Murano) – 50
San Polo – 35
San Rocco – 36
San Salvador – 24
San Sebastiano – 45
San Silvestro – 37
San Simeon Grande – 30
San Trovaso – 46
San Vidal – 25
San Zaccaria – 14
San Zulian – 26
Santa Maria dei Carmini – 47
Santa Maria Formosa – 15
Santa Maria del Giglio – 27
Santa Maria Mater Domini – 31
Santa Maria della Salute – 48
Santo Stefano – 28
Santi Giovanni e Paolo – 16
Art locations in the six neighborhoods (sestieri):
Cannaregio:
1)Galleria Franchetti
2)I Gesuiti
3)Madonna dell’Orto
4)San Felice
5)San Giovanni Crisostomo
6)San Marcuola
7)San Marziale
Castello:
8)Fondazione Querini Stampalia
9)Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra
10)San Francesco della Vigna
11)San Giuseppe di Castello
12)San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti
13)San Lio
14)San Zaccaria
15)Santa Maria Formosa
16)Santi Giovanni e Paolo
17)Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni
San Marco:
18)Biblioteca Marciana
19)Museo Correr
20)Palazzo Ducale
21)San Giorgio Maggiore (on the island of San Giorgio)
22)San Luca
23)San Moise
24)San Salvador
25)San Vidal
26)San Zulian
27)Santa Maria del Giglio
28)Santo Stefano
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Grand Canal – – – – – – – – – – – –
Santa Croce:
29)San Giacomo dell’Orio
30)San Simeon Grande
31)Santa Maria Mater Domini
San Polo:
32)I Frari
33)San Cassiano
34)San Giovanni Elemosinario
35)San Polo
36)San Rocco
37)San Silvestro
38)Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Dorsoduro:
39)Ca’ Rezzonico
40)Gallerie dell’Accademia
41)I Gesuati
42)Il Redentore (on the island of Giudecca)
43)San Barnaba
44)San Pantalon
45)San Sebastiano
46)San Trovaso
47)Santa Maria dei Carmini
48)Santa Maria della Salute
Il Lido di Venezia:
49)Chiesa dell’Assunta a Malamocco
The island of Murano:
50)San Pietro Martire
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