Querini Stampalia Foundation
The Fondazione Querini Stampalia—Fondazione Querini Stampalia—is Venice’s meeting point of aristocratic collecting and scholarly access. It was founded in 1869, at the behest of the last descendant of the Querini Stampalia family, Conte Giovanni Querini. Inside the historic Palazzo Querini Stampalia, the foundation gathers living quarters, an archive, a library, and the Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia, a museum of paintings and furnishings. The Italian architect Carlo Scarpa shaped more than a backdrop: he designed interior, exterior, and ground-floor garden spaces for the building. In the collection, Venetian Baroque and Rococo dominate, with works by Giovanni Bellini, Pietro Longhi, Giandomenico Tiepolo, and Marco and Sebastiano Ricci—including Longhi’s series on the Seven Sacraments. …
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