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Visit Venice
Spring 2013
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ART / EXHIBITIONSPag. 3
MUSIC, DANCE, THEATRE Pag. 17
SPORT AND FOLKLOREPag. 17
Events:
ART / EXHIBITIONS
greatest Italian photographers: Gianni
Berengo Gardin.
The most complete anthological exhibi--Gianni Berengo Gardin. Stories of tion of the master. A unique and unmissable exhibition of 130 photos, curated by
Photographer
Denis Curti (artistic director of the Casa
Casa dei Tre Oci - Giudecca
dei Tre Oci), who accompanied him on
Until May 12, 2013
an immense analogical journeyamong
the hundreds of black and white photographic prints that make up his immense
archive, to reread all his shots, including
those unpublished or rediscovered.
Gianni Berengo Gardin considers this
exhibition the most representative of his
career. On display are more than 130
analogue prints that trace his work as a
reporter and are the mirror of an artist
who has made ethics his banner.
130 photos that retrace the career of the
great Italian master who more than any
other has been able to recover and renew
the visual language of our country:Venice
and Milan, the psychiatric institutions
and the Basaglia law, the Venice Art
Biennale and the gypsies, the fundamental reportage entitled Inside the Homes
and New York, Vienna and Great Britain, his extraordinary experience with
Following the great success of the Elliott the Touring Club, which inspired him to
Erwitt PERSONAL BEST exhibition, discover the most hidden corners of our
theCasa dei Tre Oci of Venice presents, country, and the photos that have until
from Februrary 1st to May 12th 2013, a now remained unpublished and are being
world premier retrospective of one of the presented here for the first time.
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An observant narrator of everyday life, in
all its multiple aspects and its evolution,
he is an artist who has immortalised the
history of Italy in more than a million
shots.
--Maurizio Galimberti
PAESAGGIO ITALIA
Until 12th May 2013
Palazzo Franchetti
The “PAESAGGIO ITALIA” (Italian
landscapes) exhibition in Palazzo Franchetti in Venice will remain open until
12th May 2013, promoted by the Veneto
Institute of Sciences, Arts and Humanities and dedicated to the work of Maurizio Galimberti: an out-of-the-ordinary
anthological work on the theme of Italian
landscape, a portrait expressed through the Instants Artist’s Polaroid experiments. The retrospective presents over
150 images, some of the great Italian
photographer’s most significant shots; a
synthesis of the research he began in the
early 1990s, which rediscovers and narra-
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tes our country. For the first time, a large exhibition and a book document the
never-before-seen Grand Tour.
The exhibitive journey sets itself up as
an imposing kaleidoscope of images,
made up of unique, unrepeatable shots
recounting the journeys and digressions
of Maurizio Galimberti, transfiguring
the world through new eyes, communicating to the spectator the experience of
transformation and renewal matured by
the artist in these twenty years of work on
the landscape.
Thanks to the wide variety of composite possibilities explored, his Polaroids
become a treasure box of infinite views,
allowing our country to be unexpectedly
reread and rediscovered. Architecture, cities and landscapes are all offered up in
the form of single Polaroids: “mosaics”,
modified Polaroids in a Duchampesque
ready-made pop version representing those methods of technique and expression
that the artist has always preferred. That
artist who, for the occasion, offers us a
world premiere – an experiment with the
new film Impossible, first reproduction in
black and white.
--Fortuny and Wagner.
Wagnerism in the visual arts in
Italy
From December 8th 2012 to April
8th 2013
Fortuny Museum
This exhibition is the result of a long re-
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search on the iconographic and aesthetic
influence of Richard Wagner and the
‘Wagnerism’ on the visual arts in Italy
between the end of the 19th century and
the early decades of the 20th, a theme
that was never before the object of focused studies or exhibitions.
Wagnerism was a true cultural fashion
that, in its diverse expressions (literary,
musical, and painting) enjoyed widespread and profound diffusion. In the field of
the visual arts it was one of the most typical manifestations of the aesthetic style at
the turn of the eighteenth century, between late Naturalism, Symbolism and Art
Nouveau. Mariano Fortuny was one of
the leading protagonists in this field, and
his entire Wagnerian cycle – comprising
47 paintings owned by the museum –,
together with numerous engravings, will
be displayed for the first time. His works,
some of which were never exhibited before and many restored for the occasion,
will be compared to those of other Italian artists (such as Lionello Balestrieri,
Giuseppe Palanti, Cesare Viazzi, Eugenio
Prati, Gaetano Previati, Alberto Martini,
Adolfo Wildt) who were inspired by the
characters and scenes in Wagner’s operas,
whose bicentenary birth will be celebrated in 2013.
The exhibition will be enriched by a wide-ranging documentary section and by
a series of focuses on illustration, caricature and poster design. To round off the
exhibition and document the influence of
Wagner’s work on contemporary artists,
there will be an interesting selection of
visual works by important artists such
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as Antoni Tapies, Bill Viola, and Anselm
Kiefer.
--AMALRIC WALTER The rediscovery of the pâte de verre
2nd February – 12th May 2013
Glass Museum, Murano
The secrets and creative innovations associated with pâte de verre, one of the most
ancient and unusual ways of working
glass, is examined in a major exhibition
dedicated to the French artist, Amalric
Walter (Sèvres, 1870 – Lury-sur-Arnon,
1959) and his artistic production, with an
unprecedented and comprehensive range
of works.
Already mastered in the past by Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans,
and also known to the great glassmakers
of Murano, this technique lived through a
new flourishing period in France between
the end of the 19th and start of the 20th
century, at a time of great change in the
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visual, decorative and plastic arts. It was
in this context that after many trials and
experiments, based in part on the studies
and publications of such predecessors as
Henry Cros and Albert Dammouse, that
Amalric Walter succeeded in finding the
mysterious “binder” that was jealously
guarded by the masters.
There are over 450 objects on show, organised chronologically, covering the entire
production of the artist and highlighting
the various themes tackled with this special technique. These are accompanied by
paper documents, original photographs,
unique pieces and objects with religious
symbols, in which emerges the special alchemy of his work, formed of sweetness,
meditation, fantasy and colour.
--POSTWAR. ITALIAN PROTAGONISTS
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
February 23 – April 15, 2013
Five postwar Italian artists, presented in
the exhibition galleries, with an original
selection of works that characterize the
art of Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Piero
Dorazio (1927-2005), Enrico Castellani
(b. 1930), and Paolo Scheggi (1940-1971),
and with an additional ‘study’ exhibition
of the work of Rodolfo Arico (19302002). An exhibition narrative that looks
afresh at the notion of Italian painting in
the period of the waning of Art informel,
evident in the career of a master such as
Fontana. The other artists, deploying an
emerging pictorial language peculiar to
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the 60s, offer an international audience a
rich vein of Italian creativity, predicated
on a new concept of the art of painting,
that proposed the chromatic and symbolic force of the monochrome as in both
visual and conceptual terms.
--FRAGILE?
Cini Foundation - San Giorgio
Island
From April, 8 to July, 28, 2013
After the incredible success of the exhibition dedicated to “Carlo Scarpa Venini”,
visited by more than 46,000 people, the
Cini Foundation continues with its “The
rooms of glass” project, designed with the
objective of enhancing twentieth century
glass art with two new major exhibition
events: the first will be “Fragile?” by Mario Codognato, starting on 8 April 2013,
while in late summer there will be an
exhibition dedicated to the creations of
renowned artist Napoleone Martinuzzi
for the Venini glassworks between 1925
and 1932.
In particular, “Fragile?” will feature ap-
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proximately 30 works by some the most
interesting international artists of our
time who have also used the glass as their
poetic medium – from Marcel Duchamp
to Joseph Beuys, up to Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst, Giovanni Anselmo and Jannis Kounellis, to name just a few.
The “Fragile?” exhibition takes into account another equally important aspect
of the use of glass in the visual arts of the
1900s and the century that has just begun: the use of glass as a found object,
as a material of particular metaphorical
and linguistic qualities. Rather than the
precision or originality of the design of
the artefact, what comes into play here
is the symbolic potential of the transparency, fragility and strength (Fragile?) of
imprecision and smoothness in the construction of a situation that voluntarily
draws on the experience of everyday life
and language of contemporary art.
Among others, “Fragile?” showcases the
work of Michael Craig-Martin, Ceal
Floyer, Carsten Nicolai, Lawrence Weiner, Monica Bonvicini, Keith Sonnier,
Giuseppe Penone, Rachel Whiteread,
Luciano Fabro, Mona Hatoum, David
Hammons, Claire Fontaine, Cyril de
Commarque, Barry le Va and Joseph Kosuth.
--Birolli, Santomaso, DeLuigi Vedova: Works from XXiV Venice
Biennale
From March 7th to April 28th
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2013
Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art
In this Biennale year, Ca’ Pesaro will be
offering a cycle of exhibitions in Room 10
that focus on the city’s cultural production through some of the major events of
the late 20th century in Venice.
It will examine a fundamental group of
works which entered the Gallery’s collections in 1948, during the24th Venice Biennale. These are Trinité-sur-Mer
– Breton port (1947) by Renato Birolli
(Verona 1905 – Milan 1959), Homage
to Sara (1948) by Mario Deluigi (Treviso 1901 – Venice 1978), Interior (1947)
by Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice 1907
– 1990) and The ford (1948) by Emilio
Vedova (Venice 1919 – 2006), which for
the museum represent the start of its most
recent history, coinciding with a broadening of its identity to include some of the
most incisive works of the post-war period, with a focus that was at once international, national and local.
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--Fashion Vocation: Agatha Ruiz
de la Prada
From March 8th to May 5th 2013
Museo Correr
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and creative genius of this artist, who
combines glamour, fashion and cuttingedge design in a wholly original manner.
The initiative is part of the larger “DoVe –
Donne a Venezia Creatività, economia e
felicità” event promoted by the Assessorato, which sees a number of Venetian cultural institutions collectively involved in
focusing on the role of women in society.
--Rudolf Stingel
From 7th April to 31st December
2013
Palazzo Grassi – François Pinault
Foundation
Organised by the artist himself - with the
coordination of Elena Geuna - the exhibition dedicated to Rudolf Stingel, opening
5th April 2013, will extend throughout
the building’s entire exhibitive area, involving entrance hall and the first and
second floors. It will be the first time that
the entire museum area is dedicated to a
single artist.
The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Assessorato alla Cittadinanza delle donne and Assessorato alle Attività Culturali del Comune di Venezia
are celebrating the 8th March with an
exceptional representative, fashion designerAgatha Ruiz de la Prada, who will be
displaying a selection of her creations in
the Ballroom of the Correr.
These garments will enliven a creative,
colourful “fête dansante” in which the
protagonists will be the forms, colours
Rudolf Stingel, born in 1956, lives and
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works between New York and Merano,
where he was born. His work has been
at the centre of one-man exhibitions in
many international institutions.
The project is part of a programme of monographs of great contemporary artists,
opened in April 2012 with Urs Fischer
(“Madame Fisscher”), and presented in
alternative and addition to the thematic exhibitions of the François Pinault
Foundation collection.
The “Rudolf Stingel” exhibition will stay
open in Palazzo Grassi until 31st December 2013, for the duration of the 55th
Biennial of Contemporary Art: for the
occasion, there will also be a new exhibition in Punta della Dogana from 31st
May 2013.
--Manet. Return to Venice
From 24th April to 18th August
2013
Doge’s Palace
Manet. Return to Venice is the name of
the exhibition the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia will host from 24th April
to 18th August 2013 in the monumental
rooms of the Doge’s Palace, planned with
the special collaboration of the Musée
D’Orsay in Paris, which possesses the largest number of masterpieces by this extraordinary painter.
The exhibition arises from a need to undertake a critical survey of the cultural
models that inspired the young Manet
when he embarked on a career as painter early in life. These models, which have
hitherto referred almost exclusively to
the influence of Spanish painting on his
art, actually included much Italian Renaissance art, as the Venetian exhibition
will show: alongside his masterpieces,
there will also be a series of exceptional
studies inspired by great 16th-century
Venetian paintings, from Titian to Tintoretto and Lotto in particular. The Venetian exhibition will also highlight his
close links with Italy and Venice.
Curated by Stéphane Guégan, with the
scientific direction of Guy Cogeval and
Gabriella Belli, the exhibition will be a
major event.
The project has been made possible
thanks not only to the exceptional loans
from the Musée d’Orsay, but also from
many other international institutions.
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--Venice at the time of Manet, in
photographs of the period
From April 24th to September
15th 2013
Palazzo Ducale, Appartamento
dogale e Sala dello Scrutinio
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the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
vast archives and in particular from the
Archivio Fotografico Naya, focus on the
experiences and routes Manet followed in
a city by then resigned to its loss of any
major political or economic role and already looking to reconstruct the myth of its
historic and artistic past.
--DISCOVERING VEDOVA
From May 18th to October 13th
2013
Museo Correr e Ca’ Rezzonico
An encounter with Vedova’s work always
produces new, stimulating critical perspectives, especially if this occurs within
monumental, historically rich spaces like
the rooms of the permanent collections of
the Museo Correr and of Ca’ Rezzonico,
as is the case with the project by the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova,
curated by Germano Celant.
The major exhibition dedicated to Edouard Manet in the Doge’s Palace provides
the opportunity to present the history
and atmosphere of Venice in the mid-19th
century, experienced by the French artist
during his stays in the city. During these
visits, the Frenchman was fascinated by
the city and the history of its monuments
and works of art, which influenced his
own manner, leaving visible traces in his
production.
Prints, guides, publications and, especially, photographs of the period drawn from
The project rediscovers and at the same
time stresses the work of Emilio Vedova
and, with some of his most forceful works, makes possible a comparison with the
glorious artistic history of Venice within
two of its leading museums: Ca’ Rezzonico with its visionary works by Tiepolo,
and the Museo Correr, which conserves
exceptional examples of great Venetian
art dating from the 16th to 18th century.
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--VENICE BIENNALE
55th International Art Exhibition
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico
1st June – 24th November 2013
This festival will take place from 1st June
to 24th November 2013 in the Gardens
and the Arsenal (preview 29th, 30th and
31st May 2013), as well as in various places around Venice. It is entitled “Il palazzo enciclopedico” (The Encyclopaedic Palace), after Marino Auriti’s 1955 project
that patented an imaginary museum
containing all of humanity’s knowledge,
bringing together the biggest discoveries
of humankind, from the wheel to the satellite.
As Massimiliano Gioni, new curator of
the Art Sector of the Biennial, explained,
“today, deluged as we are by information,
the attempts to structure knowledge into
omni-comprehensive systems seems even
more necessary and even more desperate. The 55th International Art Exhibition
will explore these flights of imagination
in an exhibition that – as Auriti’s Palazzo
Enciclopedico –combines works of contemporary art and historical findings, discovered objects and artefacts.”
“Just like in the theatres of the memory
designed in the 1500s by the Venetian
Giulio Camillo – interior cathedrals in
which to order knowledge into images –
the “Il Palazzo Enciclopedico” exhibition
will try to outline the cartography of an
image-world, creating a bestiary of the
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imagination.”
--SEGUSO. Art Glass 1031 - 1973
From May 18th to September
29th 2013
Glass Museum, Murano
This exhibition results from long research
by Belgian scholar Marc Heiremans, an
expert in the history of contemporary
Murano glass, into one of the finest glass
makers of the 20th century: “Seguso Vetri d’Arte”.
Through a selection of masterpieces, it
examines the evolution of a family business, a ‘dynasty’ specialising in working
glass that made a vital contribution to the
development of this art during the 20th
century. The family forge, in whichAntonio Seguso, his son Archimede and his
grandchildren work, became a company
in the early 1930s during a period of great
innovation, experimentation and manu-
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facturing design.
Covering a chronological period ranging
from the creation of the company to the
period in which the members of the family separate, stimulated to try different,
independent roads, the exhibition traces
out the fundamental artistic contribution
made by this famous glass maker.
--Tapies. The Gaze of the artist
From June 1st to November 24th
2013
Palazzo Fortuny
Antoni Tàpies’ ‘gaze’, his way of perceiving things, of looking around himself
without limits of time and space, in a
striving for answers about the universe,
human nature, art, the mystery of life. A
year after the deathof the brilliant Cata-
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lan artist (Barcelona, 1923-2012), a key
exponent of international informal art,
the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
and Vervoordt Foundation pay tribute
to him through a fascinating exhibition
aiming to reveal the profound essence of
the art produced by this major figure in
20th century art.
The exhibition will include key works by
the great artist himself, together with a
group of works from his own collection
and those of some of the most noted contemporary artists, invited specifically to
explore the themes and ideas of Tàpies’
art.
--Anthony Caro. Sculptures
From June 1st to October 27th
2013
Museo Correr, Venezia
The splendid rooms of the Museo Correr
will be the setting for the first major Italian retrospective dedicated to one of the
greatest of living sculptors: Sir Anthony
Caro (New Malden, Surrey, 1924).
The versatile British artist, who has made
an important mark in the history of art
since the 1960s, has radically “revolutionised” his art. After a strictly figurative
beginning, under the influence of his teacher, Henry Moore, he drifted away from
sculptural tradition to create revolutionary assemblages, welded and bolted together, painted in bright colours and positioned on the floor within the viewer’s
space; these were abstract works but rich
in ideal content. This new, fascinating
sculptural language established him as
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a key figure in the development of 20th
century sculpture alongside David Smith,
Mark Di Suvero and Richard Serra.
--ROYAL PALACE - Imperial
Apartments in St.Mark Square
Re- open after restoration
Correr Museum
from April 1st to October 31st
10 am – 7 pm (ticket office 10 am – 6 pm)
from November 1st to March 31st
10 am – 5 pm (ticket office 10 am – 4 pm)
Sissi’s myth is commemorated in Venice
with the inauguration and the opening to
the public of the rooms reserved to the
Princess Sissi in the Imperial Apartments
of the Royal Palace in Venice, in S.
Mark’s Square, after a restoration of nine
estraordinary spaces.
Princess Sissi sojourned for 38 days in the
Imperial Apartments in the Royal Palace, in occasion of her first visit in Venice
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in 1856, the visit recalled in the fourth
episode of the famous film by Ernest Mirischka. Then, Elisabeth chose Venice to
live after the death of her daughter Sofia,
between October 1861 and May 1862.
The nine rooms now opened to the public, give back to light decorations by
Giuseppe Borsato, ornamentations by
Giovanni Rossi, golden stuccos. New tapestries have been collocated in
the rooms, close to the original
ones, expressly realized and donated by Rubelli – Venice. To
recall the original atmosphere,
precious fittings dated to the
Napoleonic period and in Imperial style have been collocated
in the Apartments.
Come back to life the Empress’
Audience Room and the Studio,
the Empress’ bedroom with its delightful
boudoir and the Antechamber. The Empress’s Bathroom is personalized by a decoration representing “The Goddess protecting the Arts“, with a face recalling the
beautiful Empress. Also, of great impact
for richness of decorations, tapestries and
furnishings, the “public” spaces,as the
Dining -room for week-day launches,the
Lombardy-Venetia Throne Room and the
Oval Room.
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MUSIC, THEATRE, DANCE
--LE MUSICHE DEI GRIMANI
A REVIEW OF RENAISSANCE
AND BAROQUE MUSIC
Until June 2013
In Palazzo Grimani (Venice, Campo Santa Maria Formosa), an interesting Review
of renaissance and baroque music concerts, organised by the School of Ancient
Music in Venice and entitled LE MUSICHE DEI GRIMANI (the music of the
Grimani family), started in January of
this year and will last until June 2013.
Palazzo Grimani is not only particularly
suitable for music from the architectural
and acoustic points of view, but it also
played a crucial part in the history of
music in general and of that in Venice in
particular.
In the 1600s, the Grimani family were
among the first to dedicate a theatre - the
San Giovanni e Paolo - to public works;
they then built the most sumptuous of
all of Venice’s theatres, the San Giovanni
Grisostomo; in the 1700s, they dedicated
their San Samuele Theatre to melodrama. This brought them into contact with
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many famous musicians (from Monteverdi and Cavalli, to Handel, Hasse and
Galuppi).
The twelve music programmes, each an
hour long, are accompanied by an historical research on the musical environment
of the Grimani family and on their connection to the various repertoires, which
will be presented as an introduction to
the concert. The pieces will be performed
under the care of the teachers of the School of Ancient Music of Venice and guest
musicians and played on original instruments or exact copies, played how they
were in the past. The scores have been
taken from facsimiles of the originals or,
where unavailable, scientifically accurate
editions.
SPORT AND FOLKLORE
--Vogalonga 2012
Sunday, May 19th, 2013
The Vogalonga is a 30km paddling/
rowing race through the city of Venice
and the lagoon up to Burano. Almost all
rowed or paddled boats can participate,
and there’s even a separate category for
kayaks. There are usually well over one
thousands boats in the race, of many
types.
All participants are issued a diploma of
participation. The Vogalonga is not a
competitive race and there are no winners.
It’s all about being there.
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FESTA DELLA SENSA
11/12th May 2012
Every year Venice attracts millions of visitors to events that are famous the world
over. The Festa della Sensa, is one of the
city’s best known festivals that bring to
life its thousand year history and its close
ties to the sea and the art of “Voga alla
Veneta” rowing.
The Sensa (Ascension Day) Festival was
celebrated by the Venetian Republic on
the day of Christ’s Ascension. Sensa is the
Venetian dialect word for ascension.
It commemorates two important events
in the life of the Republic: one on 9 May
in the year 1000, when Doge Pietro Orseolo
II came to the rescue of the inhabitants
of Dalmatia, who were under the Slav
menace. The second event took place in
1177, when, in the reign of Doge Sebastiano
Ziani, Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa signed the peace treaty in Venice that put an end to
the century-long diatribe
between the Papacy and
the Empire. The rite of the
Wedding with the Sea used
to take place
on the occasion of the
Ascension Day Festival.
Every year on that day the
Doge on his state barge, the
Bucintoro, sailed to Sant’Elena, at the level of San Pietro di Castello Church. The
Bishop waited to bless him
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on a boat with gilt sides. To emphasise
the Serenissima Republic’s dominion
over the sea, the Festival culminated with
a kind of propitiatory rite: the Doge sailed to the channel between the lagoon
and the sea and threw a gold ring into the
water.
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