Convito di Vetro, Accademia di Venezia I Photo: Matteo De Fina

On the occasion of Venice Glass Week, with the exhibition Convito di Vetro (Banquet of Glass), created in collaboration with Pentagram Stiftung and curated by Sung Moon Cho, an art historian specializing in 20th-century tableware, the Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia once again opens its doors to Murano glass. The protagonist of the monumental site-specific installation set up in Room X of the Galleries - dedicated to Paolo Veronese - is a majestic table covered by a white tablecloth on which are laid more than 200 artifacts designed by 27 artists and made by various Murano furnaces during the 20th and 21st centuries. The table is placed in front of one of the museum's absolute masterpieces, Paolo Veronese's famous 1573 canvas Convito in Casa di Levi (Banquet in the House of Levi) which depicts one of the most emblematic banquet scenes in the history of modern art. The work, originally conceived to depict the Last Supper, was censured by the Holy Office, which accused the painter of heresy for having treated the religious theme without proper decorum. The affair gave rise to the title by which the painting is now universally known.

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