Project
“Diplomatic and Cultural Relations between the Habsburgs and the Serenissima: The Role of Venetian Painting at the Eighteenth-Century Imperial Court in Vienna”.
The project is financed through the APART-GSK Funding Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) (2023‒2027)
During the early modern era, the relations between Vienna and Venice were characterised by complexity and breadth. Unfolding across multiple spheres, from the political and diplomatic to the cultural — between which points of intersection often arose — these relations were also an expression of often diverging, if not opposing, and varied interests.
The Settecento saw the consolidation of important artistic ties between Venice and Vienna. Their relationship provided an artistic and cultural connection based on a deep mutual interest in propagating cultural models from the Veneto area beyond the Alps. This cultural transfer process took place through networks of diplomatic, artistic and patronage ties.
The project aims to investigate Venetian painting as the protagonist of the cultural transfer phenomenon between Vienna and Venice during the 18th century.
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