As part of the exhibition Altino before Venice, The conference by Margherita Tirelli, former director of the National Archaeological Museum of Altino, on the theme “On the trail of Altino between the Lagoon and Venice” will be held on April 4th, at 4.30 pm, at the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro in Venice. The conference will focus on the history of the many “pieces” of Altino, slabs, stones, altars, dismantled and reused in the buildings of Venice, and still visible today, such as in Santa Maria Formosa, at the Mangilli Valmarana palace in Santi Apostoli, up to the basilica of San Donato in Murano, whose portal is flanked not by normal pillars but by an Altinate funerary altar divided into two parts.
«Venice used everything that could be used in Altino» explains Tirelli. A Roman city abandoned in the 7th century AD and never inhabited again until the beginning of the last century, equipped with monumental buildings, a forum, a necropolis. In the absence of available quarries, it became a construction material for Venice in the Middle Ages and again in the Renaissance. Not only for functional purposes, as cornerstones, but also to embellish churches and buildings, in a city that did not have a monumental past. The conference by Margherita Tirelli, co-curator of the exhibition, will be an opportunity to delve deeper into the key themes of the exhibition, which can be visited until 14 April 2024, from 10:00 to 18:00 from Tuesday to Sunday, with free admission. at the Scuola di San Teodoro in Venice (campo San Salvador, 4810).
