A glass zoo – and Tennessee Williams has nothing to do with it. They are monkeys, dogs, giraffes, cats, geese, fish, butterflies: a zoomorphic universe made of Murano glass and patiently collected over 30 years by Pierre Rosenberg, famous director of the Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the greatest historians of the art of our time, member of the Académie française.
The collector
In his long and brilliant career, the internationally renowned scholar has collected an extraordinary collection of paintings and drawings of the French seventeenth century, as well as thousands of books and documents that have accompanied him in his career. But the collector’s passion also led him to create another collection, much more personal, which binds him hand in glove with Venice.
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An ironic and private collection, made for love and “divertissement”, piece by piece: that of Murano glass animals. An immense collection, which counts over 2000 pieces distributed between the Parisian and the Venetian home of the professor who finally allowed himself to be persuaded to present to the public a selection of 750 pieces, set up in a playful and fun way at the Stanze del Vetro, on the island. of San Giorgio in Venice.
For children
“The Glass Ark. Pierre Rosenberg’s collection of animals “is an exhibition to be savored, conceived first of all for children, but also for the adults who accompany them, in a spectacular setting by Denise Carnini and Francesca Pedrotti who transformed the Glass Rooms into many scenarios suitable to host, window after window, the animals of the jungle, those of the farm, of the savannah, of the swamp, marine and domestic animals, of the forest and of the poles. In the background the noises of real environments and the sounds of real animals: a playful and immersive experience also completed by an animated fairy tale created by Giulia Savorani and projected in the exhibition.
It was not an easy task for the curators Giordana Naccari and Cristina Beltrami to convince Pierre Rosenberg to carry out this exhibition: the glass animals in his collection had never left the home but today, to those who ask him what their fate will be in future, the professor smiles and replies: “Who knows … it would be nice if a part remained in Venice”.