Virtual Exhibition
Opus Venetum: The Forgotten Venetian Heritage
Ongoing
The virtual exhibition called OPUS VENETUM: The Forgotten Venetian Heritage is a result of a collaboration between the Ph.D. Iva Jazbec Tomaić (Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka), Ph.D. Danijel Ciković (Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka) and Ph.D. Valentina Baradel (Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali: archeologia, storia dell’arte, del cinema e della musica, Università degli Studi di Padova). The project is financed by The University of Rijeka and co-financed by the Foundation of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Francis Haskell Memorial Fund.
The implementation of this virtual exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of other foreign institutions namely Almae Matris Alumni Croaticae – United Kingdom Association of Alumni and Friends of Croatian Universities and Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée / Université Lumière Lyon 2 and is a result of several years of project work on the systematization and analysis of preserved Venetian 14th-century embroidery heritage.
The exhibition is of a permanent nature, and new content is planned to be added through the work on this topic in the coming period. The website’s content refers to the virtual exhibition, information about the project and work process as well as information about team members and finally acknowledgements with a list of institutions thanks to which the exhibition was made possible. The virtual exhibition itself consists of the following chapters: Introduction, Opus Venetum, Masterpiece of Venetian Embroidery: The Veglia Altar Frontal, The Hands Behind the Preparatory Drawing, Revealing the Secrets of the Art of Embroidery and Mapping of the 14th Century Venetian Embroidery.
Through the text and reproductions, the authors tried to give an insight into Venetian 14th-century embroidery workshop practice and to create, for the first time, a comprehensive catalogue of embroideries crafted in Venice during the 14th century. This catalogue will serve as a cornerstone for directing future research endeavours towards the proper valorisation of individual works of art and the distribution of ideas and commissioning models among the prominent representatives of the ecclesiastical and secular elites on the Adriatic.
To visit the virtual exhibition: https://opusvenetum.uniri.hr/en/