Museo Correr

The Museo Correr or Museo Correr is the Municipal Museum of Venice. It is housed in the Napoleonic wing of the Magistrates at St. Mark's Square in front of St Mark's Basilica. Namesake of the museum is the Venetian Teodoro Correr (1750-1830), who bequeathed his valuable collection of books, manuscripts, paintings and decorative arts antiquities of the city. Overall, the museum contains about 12,000 manuscripts, however, there is still no printed catalog, so that stocks hardly incorporated into the research. This should have with the online edition that is established since 2010, change. Today the museum has three different collections.

The Teodoro Corrers Foundation documents the history of Venice in various cityscapes, history images, documents, vistas from the Canaletto school, the library of the former Theatines Monastery, state robes, coins and seals, as well as documents on maritime history and historical weapons. The collection originated in a time when many families were forced to sell their stocks, which allowed Correr, to purchase a large number of works. For Foundation Corrers which comes from Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna, to a time was based on a smaller property, sold long ago when many stocks abroad and the prices were increased. However Cicogna collected targeted as a connoisseur of Venetian culture and history as Correr.

The inventory is divided into different Fondi. The Fondo Correr of 1830 has 1533 signatures. The cataloging was done by the first director Vincenzo Lazzari. 1861 came the donated by Giuseppe Maria Malvezzi Fondo Malvezzi, which consists of 160 manuscripts. The founder himself died on 15 April 1884. Again Lazzari created a catalog. 1866 came the Fondo Cicogna. Cicogna had bought with its limited resources over time than 4000 manuscripts, 40,000 printed works, including around 750 editions of Boccaccio. Giuseppe Giordani worked until 1869 in the collection. Today, 3,823 manuscripts Cicognas be found in the Museo Correr. 1879 Fondo Gradenigo Dolfin was added to the museum, an inventory of 1230 manuscripts bequeathed to the deceased on February 8, 1879 Contessa Elena Maria Dolfin. So that you satisfied the desire of her husband Vincenzo Domenico Gradenigo, which he had held in his will of 20 July 1869. The collection dates back to the core Pietro Gradenigo ( 1695-1776 ). First published in 1903 Daniele Ricciotti Bratti the accompanying catalog. Similar to other catalogs and this is now available via the Internet. 1881 was a further foundation by the Conti Francesco Lodovico Lorenzo and Dona dalle Rose, the aufgingen accordingly in Fondo Dona dalle Rose. This goes back to collections of families Tron and Dona. The staff of the Museo Giuseppe Nicoletti succeeded to 1882 the cataloging of about 500 manuscripts. Many of the pieces were acquired by Leonardo Dona (1536-1612) or even written. 1885 bequeathed Michele Wcovich Lazzari ( 1814-1886 ) a stock that forms the Fondo Wcovich Lazzari today; the transfer of the 5000 manuscripts and prints done by his widow Caterina Campagnella. 1891, the Museum of the Fondo Morosini Grimani, a family whose last member Loredana Morosini Gattersburg was passed in 1884. 1891 Although the Venetian part of the heirs agreed to the stock " gratuitamente " to let the Correr, but the Austrian part demanded a payment. So it came about processes, the museum received 2,418 books and 607 manuscripts from the Palazzo Morosini di Santo Stefano at the end. The collection went to considerable parts back to the Doge Francesco Morosini ( 1619-94 ). Inventoried the stock of Bartolomeo Cecchetti, the Director of the State Archives. The term Fondo Provenienze Various stocks are summarized, which are of different origin. This includes 3430 signatures.

The second part of the collection can be seen in the picture gallery. It includes a considerable number of works, including the most famous image of the Museo Correr, entitled Two Venetian ladies of Vittore Carpaccio, which was mistaken in the 19th century for the representation of two courtesans.

The third section of the Museo Correr is connected to the Museo del Risorgimento e dell'Ottocento Veneziano. Here the history of Venice from the end of the Republic is documented to the unification of Italy in the 19th century history paintings, costumes, documents, engravings, etc..