Fondazione Giorgio Cini: Mindful Hands opens to the public

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

17 September 2016 - 8 January 2017

The first ever public exhibition of over 120 items from one of the most important collections of miniatures, put together by Count Vittorio Cini



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A large exhibition entitled Mindful Hands. Masterpieces of Illumination from the Fondazione Giorgio Cini opens to the public on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice from 17 September 2016 to 8 January 2017 (official opening: Friday, 16 September 2016). Produced by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in cooperation with Studio Michele De Lucchi and Factum Arte, the exhibition is being organised with the support of the Helen Hamlyn Trust and the contribution of Pirelli. For the first time in over 35 years more than half of one of the most fascinating, invaluable Fondazione collections will be on show: the collection of 236 miniatures acquired by Count Vittorio Cini from the Libreria Antiquaria Hoepli in Milan in 1939-1940, and presented to the Foundation in 1962.

The exhibition is curated by Federica Toniolo, a lecturer in the History of Illuminated Manuscripts at the University of Padua, and Massimo Medica, director of the Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna, and Alessandro Martoni, Fondazione Cini Institute of Art History, who were also responsible for cataloguing the entire collection. An integral part of the exhibition itinerary, designed by the Studio Michele De Lucchi is a section with multimedia installations and reproductions created by Adam Lowe's Factum Arte.

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