{"id":171267,"date":"2026-01-22T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2026\/01\/abu-dhabi-vedutisti-italiani-fra-settecento-e-ottocento-in-mostra\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:12:38","slug":"abu-dhabi-vedutisti-italiani-fra-settecento-e-ottocento-in-mostra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2026\/01\/abu-dhabi-vedutisti-italiani-fra-settecento-e-ottocento-in-mostra\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi: Italian Vedutisti of the 18th and 19th Centuries on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Italian Cultural Institute of Abu Dhabi<\/strong> and the local <strong>Embassy of Italy<\/strong>, in collaboration with the <strong>Hampel auction house<\/strong> of Munich, present to the Emirati public the exhibition <em>\u201c<strong>Italian Masters in Abu Dhabi<\/strong>,\u201d<\/em> dedicated to the timeless charm of Italian cities as seen through the eyes of the great masters of <strong><em>vedutismo<\/em><\/strong> between the 18th and 19th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>From 30 January to 13 February 2026, visitors will be able to embark on an ideal journey through <strong>Venice, Rome, and other celebrated urban settings<\/strong>, through a selection of works that portray Italy as a privileged destination within the European imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Works by great masters such as <strong>Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Vanvitelli, Ippolito Caffi<\/strong>, and <strong>Thomas Patch<\/strong> recount the refined and elegant tradition of the <strong><em>veduta<\/em><\/strong>: a form of <strong>painting that is both documentary and poetic<\/strong>, capable of depicting architecture, light, everyday life, and monumental perspectives with extraordinary precision. During the period of the <strong>Grand Tour<\/strong>, between the 18th and 19th centuries, travel to Italy was a fundamental part of the cultural education of European aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals. <em>Vedute<\/em> thus became visual \u201csouvenirs\u201d of the journey\u2014images to be collected, exchanged, and preserved as symbols of knowledge and refined taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Cultural Institute of Abu Dhabi and the local Embassy of Italy, in collaboration with the Hampel auction house of Munich, present to the Emirati public the exhibition \u201cItalian Masters in Abu Dhabi,\u201d dedicated to the timeless charm of Italian cities as seen through the eyes of the great masters of vedutismo between the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":171270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[32,6],"class_list":["post-171267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171269,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171267\/revisions\/171269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}