Until 18 July 2010
On the second floor of Palazzo Fortuny, a prestigeous and noble venetian palace, an extraordinary group of armors, helmets and accessories from the Koelliker Collection of Milan are on view.
The combat gear worn by the Samurai - the powerful warrior class that for seven centuries governed Japan - has always been considered, even in periods of peace, an important sign of command and social status, leading to the creation of armor of astonishing beauty, embellished by ornaments of considerable value.
Curated by Giuseppe Piva; produced in collaboration with the Mazzotta Foun-dation and the City of Milan.
Catalogue published by Mazzotta.

Where:  PALAZZO FORTUNY
Address: San Beneto, San Marco 3780 - Venezia
Boat stop: Rialto Boat Lines 1 - 2 ACTV St. Angelo Boat Lines 1 ACTV
Times 10am - 6pm
Closed on Tuesday 
Last admission, 5pm.
Closed Tuesday.
Info Call Center, 848082000

Until Dec. 31st, 2010
CHIESA DI SAN BARNABA, Dorsoduro 2771, Venice

On April 15, 1452 in Anchiano, a small town near Vinci, Leonardo was born the illegitimate son of a Ser Piero who belonged to a family of notaries. About his mother we know only that her name was Caterina. Leonardo grew up at home, most certainly raised by those closest to him, a grandmother and his stepmother.

In the countryside around Vinci, Leonardo began to be interested in nature, observing the flight of birds and the workings of windmills. But before too long, after the death of Ser Piero’s father, the family moved to Florence where young Leonardo began a respectable career, though with little success. In that period Florence was an open-air workshop: architectural and artistic works were underway everywhere, and Leonardo was drawn into the happenings in the artists’ workshops surrounding him. Therefore Ser Piero decided to send his son to one of the most well known workshops of the period: Verrocchio’s.

There, Leonardo remained for eight years. Due to his marked pictorial talents, he was already taking part in the Company of Artists in 1472. In this period he collaborated with his teacher on many works. 1482 signaled for Leonardo the beginning of a series of trips that brought him to visit many Italian courts and even that of the French King Louis XII. His stay at the court of Ludovico Sforza, where he acted as engineer, architect, sculptor, artist, and singer extended until 1499. It was in this period that Leonardo painted some of his most famous works: The Last Supper and The Virgin of the Rocks.

At the same time he was also intensifying his studies of machinery, architecture, hydraulics, city planning and anatomy, passing entire nights in the mortuaries of hospitals. After the fall of the dukedom, Leonardo began a period of wandering which carried him to Mantova and Venice. A year later he was back in Florence, and afterwards he entered into the service of Cesare Borgia as military engineer. Between 1503 and 1505 Leonardo returned to Florence where he began his most famous work: La Gioconda (The Mona Lisa). In 1506 he was again in Milan where he dedicated himself full-time to scientific speculation, studies in biology and physics, anatomical research, hydraulics, and geophysical mathematics. These studies also continued during his stay in Rome.

In 1517 the son of the king of France Francis I, who appreciated Leonardo’s great talent, called him to the French court. Here, Leonardo passed the last years of his life. He died in Cloux on May 2, 1519 at the age of 67 and was buried at the church of Saint-Florentin in Amboise. In his will, Leonardo left all of his writings to his favourite student Francesco Melzi, while to his other pupil, Salai, he left the paintings still in his studio, among these La Gioconda. This is the summary of an exceptional life, intense and of prodigious activity, of which remain few paintings and a great number of writings and drawings, fragments of studies and unordered notebooks.

This exhibition is made up of about 40 modesl placed on cubes or wooden foot-boards. The machines regarding the topic of the principles of mechanics are interactive and can be used by the public.

Where: Chiesa di San Barnaba, Dorsoduro 2771, Venice
Opening Times: 09:30 - 19:30 every day
Admission: Euro 8,00 / reduced Euro 5,00

23-25 April, 2010
Terminal Passeggeri 103 - Venice

Once again the Terminal Passeggeri in Venice (two steps from Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal) hosts an important exhibition with philatelist collection, historic postage stamps nad related materials that compete for the “San Marco” Grand Prize. It is a showroom of philatelist trade, postal history, numismatics, antique publications and books, postcards, call cards and other printed collector items. For small and big fan!

Time: 10:00-18:00

30th March 2010 - at 9 pm
Venice - La Fenice Theatre

Any fan of Woody Allen’s films knows that the comedy legend has always had a special place in his heart for jazz music-particularly the old Dixieland sound. What you might not know is that Woody is an avid jazz musician himself (the director plays clarinet) and his band, the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band, has been going strong for years.

Woody Allen has taken his clarinet beyond the status of prop or hobby with his famous Monday-night New York club gigs , and the New Orleans jazz septet will be now at the prestigious La Fenice Theatre in Venice with its bespectacled celebrity front-man playing it absolutely straight.

As a musician, he innovatively plays the clarinet and replicates to perfection the sounds of jazz from its origins, supported by an encyclopaedic musical knowledge that is evident in the colours of his identifiable musical selections. A can’t miss evening.

Tickets: from Euro 30,00 to Euro 90,00
For any information : Circuito Hellovenezia 041 24 24

WOODY ALLEN AND HIS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND

Sunday, April 4th 2010 - starting from 12:30 hrs.

We invite you to celebrate Easter together with us savouring our local and international specialties: the classical lamb, the traditional Easter Cake “Colomba” and much more.  You will be served with a very special menu studied by our Chef for this occasion. And our Maitre Filippo is at your disposal for any request.

This is our special wish for all of you:

“As spring comes to the world
bringing sunshine and gladness…..
this comes to you
bringing wishes for joy.”

Happy Easter!

A tribute to an exceptional american artist, Jim Hodges, with his first personal exhibition in Italy.
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in collaboration with Centre Pompidou Paris, Musée national d’Art Moderne and Camden Arts Centre London, offers to the public an original collection of 60 works, where drawing, poor materials or rich ones, as fine silver or gold thread, merge into a - sometimes very simple and some others sophisticated - melting pot which approaches big themes such as love, life, death, fragility or time.

The collection of drawings from the Venetian nineteenth century at the  Correr Museum is one of the biggest on the graphic scene of that century. The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia is presenting a vast exhibition of these drawings at the Correr, most of which are on display for the very first time, including works by artists such as Caffi, Pividor, Guardi, Moro, Bosa, Vervloet to name but a few.

The works on display all in some way connected to Venice: either the subject of the works is Venetian, or they were conceived and completed in Venice, or they are about Venice, inspired by the city and its monumental and social aspects as a subject of exercise or poetical sensations. The Venice that appears in the nineteenth-century drawings of the Correr is surprising: both modern and ancient, distracted and suffering, secret and well-known; it reveals the nerves and muscles of a body in suffering that refuses to yield, full of life and dynamic.

Above all, there are outbursts of reality, of what is true, going beyond rhetoric and regrets, beyond nostalgia and laments. A Venice that is unusual and full of fascination during the years of Ruskin and the first big, controversial restoration projects, the affirmation of tourists seeking sensations that differ from those of the Grand Tour of the Enlightenment. It is a season of studies and research; a nineteenth century that is starving for history and industry, contradictory and fragile, unsure and headstrong. In a word, Modern.

Information Museum Correr,

Venezia from19 December 2009 through 11 April 2010

Opening times from 10am to 5pm

Ticket 4 €

Christmas is almost upon us already and it is time to make all the arrangements to enjoy a perfect celebration.

You’ll want to party in style. Somewhere memorable. Somewhere different. Somewhere unique.

We, at the Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal, have got the right settings, food, wine and ambiance to make your Christmas holiday in Venice a memorable one!

Check out our special menus for Christmas Eve Dinner and Christmas Day Lunch and also our EARLY BOOKING PROMOTIONS!

CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER

December 24th, 2009

Amuse buche

Tartare of Atlantic salmon with its caviar served on crunchy potatoes and winter greens

Green and yellow noodles with Barbel fish sauce, served with chanterelle mushrooms and Roman Broccoli

Fillet of Turbot passed in Castelluccio lentil sauce with crunchy leeks

Grapefruit sorbet served in its fruit

Chicken stuffed with dumplings and horse chestnuts, glazed with Nosiola, served with wafer potatoes and water cress onions

Flan of plain and white chocolate panettone with exotic fruit salad

Selection of whimsical pastries prepared by our dessert confectioner

Euro 65,00 per person, drinks not included

CHRISTMAS DAY LUNCH

December 25th, 2009

Amuse buche

Pumpkin and smoked cheese flan with fresh foie gras flavoured with Recioto Soave wine

Tortelloni with potatoes and capers served with mountain cheese sauce

Fillet of Gilthead wrapped in artichokes served with Vichy carrots

Mandarin orange sorbet

Christmas turkey served with red Treviso chicory flavoured with truffles and potato wafer

Traditional Panettone with cream and chocolate sauces

Selection of pastries

Euro 65,00 per person, drinks not included

EARLY BOOKING SPECIAL DISCOUNT:

If you reserve before November 30th you will get 15% discount (Euro 65,00 –> Euro 55,50);

if you reserve after Nov. 30th and before December 8th you will get 10% reduction (Euro 65,00 –> Euro 58,50).

Enjoy a glittering Christmas in Venice!

The exhibition traces the history of the Great Renaissance architect’s ties with Venice.
It is part of Palladio’s 500th birthday anniversary and on view are over 300 works - prints, manuscripts, documents and drawings - that offer a view of the Venice environment in Palladio’s time and during his activity in the city.

Special attention is paid to Palladio’s work of redesigning the unique and symbolic Venetian urban scene of St.Mark’s Basin, with its facade of San Giorgio Maggiore, the votive Church of the Redentore on the island of Giudecca, and the Zitelle Complex, producing a breathtaking result of extraordinary innovative force.

The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Marciana National Library and the University of Venice (IUAV) and offers a compelling multimedia section.

Open from 2nd November 2009 to 10th January 2010

From 10 am to 5 pm

Admission Euro 13,00