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Museums
Peek inside Grand Canal palaces donated to Venice, and you'll find they're
packed to attic rafters with Prada couture, samurai armour and the odd dinosaur.
Though he tried for 11 years, Napoleon couldn't steal all the treasures Venetians
had hoarded for centuries. Generous benefactors have restored Venice's
treasure-box museums and added plenty to them, too.
Venetian All-Star Showcases
Gallerie dell'Accademia
Watch Venetian painters set the world ablaze with satur-
ated colour and censorship-defying art. (
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Ca' Rezzonico
The sun seems to shine inside baroque Ca' Rezzonico, from Tieo-
polo's salon ceilings to the Vedutisti (Landscape) gallery. (
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Palazzo Ducale
The doge's home decor is the world's prettiest propaganda, fea-
turing Veronese, Tintoretto, Tiepolo and Titian. (
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Museo Correr
Palace rooms dedicated to pink bellinis and blood-red Carpaccios,
plus philosophers by Veronese, Titian and Tintoretto in the library. (
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I Frari
Titian's glowing Madonna outshines even Canova, Bellini and Longhena.
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Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Tintoretto upstages Veronese with action-packed
scenes of angelic rescue squads. (
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Fashion-Forward Palaces
Museo Fortuny
The radical fashion-house that freed women from corsets keeps
raising eyebrows. (
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Fondazione Prada
Futurist suits, video art and Duchamp suitcases are making
waves along the Grand Canal inside stately Renaissance palace Ca' Corner.
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