The origins and the first Biennials
Deliberated by the Municipality of Venice on April 19, 1893, to celebrate the silver wedding of King Umberto and Margherita di Savoia, the first national biennial art exhibition was inaugurated two years after April 30, 1895. A special statute was drawn up which provided for the invitation to the major Italian and foreign artists, leaving space also for the works of uninvited Italian painters and sculptors; each artist could participate with a maximum of two works never exhibited in the national territory.
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