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La Tempesta, by Giorgione, preserved in the Accademia Galleries, one of the symbolic paintings of the Manfrin Collection.

One of the eighteenth-century cultural venues that went down in history for the importance of the works on display and the relevance of its visitors.
Girolamo Manfrin was one of the few who, at the end of the eighteenth century, wanted to invest and believe in art as a source of Venetian pride to be passed on to new generations.

Close to the fall of the Serenissima Republic, Count Girolamo Manfrin, an entrepreneur in the tobacco sector, acquired a palace in Cannaregio from the Venier family in 1787, now known as Palazzo Priuli Manfrin.

In this building, Manfrin kept and exhibited some of the most significant paintings of Venetian painting, establishing himself as one of the most important Venetian art collectors of the late 18th century. Thus wrote Francis Haskell del Conte in "Patrons and painters: study on the relationship between art and Italian society in the Baroque age" (Florence, 1966): "almost w

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