The landscape painting is a pictorial current that has for subject perspective views of city or landscapes, keeping the closest to reality in scientific way through the use of the optic chamber. It was already known in the XVth century, but in the XVIIth century was improved and made to common use. It consists in a system of mobile lenses that project on a sheet the upside-down image of the subject. The optic chamber totally changed the way of painting of the XVIIth century: the architecture became the first object of art, losing the role of simple backdrop on which the actions of the main characters developed. The landscape painting developed above all in Venice because of its particularity and evocativeness; this favored the development of a real Venetian school that boasted the Canaletto, Franceso Guardi and Bernardo Bellotto among its great painter. They belonged to the landscape painting the so-called "caprices", or mixture and substitution of some elements from a landscape to another.

For this exhibition our agency proposes some packages for Your stay in Verona with an overnight in a first class bed&breakfast locatedin downtown or, if you prefer, in a farmhouse in the country, i.e. Valpolicella wine region. Besides, for the arts lovers, we have arranged a guided tour in Verona with a visit devoted to this pictorial current.

Itinerary for the walking tour:
Start in Bra square in front of Gran Guardia palace and down to Riva San Lorenzo you'll reach Castelvecchio, following you'll reach Erbe square, Signori square and the Scaliger tombs. At St. Anastasia's stop behind the church to admire the Roman theater and Ponte Pietra (Stone Bridge) crossing Adige river. Along its bank up to Bridge Garibaldi reaching Cathedral square; from there back to Erbe square and end of the guided tour.

During the guided walking tour you will be shown reproductions of pictures and water-colors representing monuments or foreshortenings of the city by local and foreign painters during the period of the Gran Tour.

Price per person from € 160,00

The package includes:

- 1 overnight sharing a double room in BB basis;
- 1 entrance ticket to the exhibition "Corot and the modern art";
- 1 dinner with tasting of local products in a traditional inn/winery in the city centre;
- 1 entrance ticket to Castelvecchio and Palazzo Forti museums
- 1 walking tour of 2h30 with english speaking guide around Verona downtown

Supplement of € 45,00 per person for extended guide service for the exhibition "Corot and the modern art" (1h15)

For further information or bookings, we invite You to send Your application to:

incoming@vertours.com