The Fondazione Cini is housed in the magnificent Monasterio de San Giorgio Maggiore, created by Andrea Palladio on the idyllic Isola San Giorgio Maggiore, the centerpiece of the Venetian Lagoon.
Paolo Veronese’s magnificent Wedding at Cana was created for its dining hall before being removed by Napoleon to the Louvre in Paris, where it is now the view Mona Lisa enjoys.
The once renown Renaissance library is now home to the largest repository and reference library on Italian art. It is funded as a study center, in memory of an only son lost to war it is now open to scholars by appointment.
Although altered in some respects by later architects several times in its long history, San Giorgio Maggiore still remains one of the most beautiful and important Palladian structures in the Veneto. Its sublime, classic beauty has inspired architecture for 500 years.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the silence.
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