The Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at Ca’ d’Oro
from March 23th to July 23rd 2017
Serenissime Trame features twenty-six very early Oriental carpets, extraordinary, highly coloured textiles composed of elaborate weaves with a powerful symbolic charge. The exhibition will allow a comparison of precious products with some Italian paintings dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Most of the carpets exhibited came from the Zalesky collection and a few from the Giorgio Franchetti collection.
Romain Zalesky is a French engineer, entrepreneur and businessman and owner of the world largest carpet collection with some 1.500 items. In 2008 Mr Zalesky set up the Tassara Foundation in Breno, Brescia not-for-profit provider working mainly in the sphere of culture, education, instruction and training. In 2014 Mr Zalesky donated the foundation with 1325 antique carpets requesting that they will be exposed. The foundation is currently involved in the project of finding a suitable place in Brescia where to show the collection to the public. This exhibit is then a major event for the foundation as this is a first attempt to exhibit the precious carpets on a public display.
exhibit website http://www.serenissimetrame.it/en/the-exhibition/
Pictures of the exhibited carpets
Exhibited carpets provenance map (Zaleski collection)
 Niche Carpet ‘Transilvanya’ from Western Anatolya – 1600 ca – (Zalesky collection) |
 Silk carpet and precious spurn fabrics ‘Polonaise’ – Central Persia – 18th century (Zilesky Collection) |
 Carpet with small ‘Holbein’ patterns – Western Anatolya – 16th cent. (Zilesky collection) |
 Garden carpet with animals fight – Central Persia – 16th cent. (Zaleski collection) |
 Carpet with drakes – Caucasus – 1600 ca (Zaleski collection) |
 Carpet with medallions – Cairo – 16th cent. (Zaleski collection) |
 Carpet with palms and small cloud pattern – Isfahan – 18th cent. (Zalesky collection) |
 Carpet with birds – Ushak – 16th cent. (Zalesky collection) |
 Carpet with shrubs – Lahore – 18th cent. (Zaleski collection) |
 Carpet with arabesques ‘Lotto’ in Anatolian style – Anatolya – 16th cent. (zaleski collection) |
 Ornated carpet with ‘Lotto’ arabesques – Western Anatolya – 1600 ca (Zalesky collection) |
 G. Dai Libri_1530_Madonna dell”Ombrellino_Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
 V. Carpaccio_1502_Birth of the Virign Mary_from Accademia Carrara, Bergamo |
