Il seduttore.
Il rinnovamento dell’immagine maschile al tempo di Casanova

7 March – 27 July 2025
Venice, Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo

Curated by
Roberta Orsi Landini
Chiara Squarcina

An icon of a world and a civilisation, Giacomo Casanova is a remarkable key to understanding 18th-century Europe: the world of the great courts and powerful dynasties, exciting encounters with leading figures in art and culture, the enthralling uncertainties of gambling and of the boundless, many-sided theatrical metamorphoses.

The exhibition of 18th-century garments, both male and female – partly from the collections of the Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Centro Studi di Storia del Tessuto e del Costume – takes us into the 18th-century world in which Casanova was one of the most illustrious figures.

The exhibition, organised in the rooms of the first piano nobile of the museum, already styled in 18th-century Venetian taste, helps us understand how greatly aesthetics formed an essential language, not only in seduction but above all in the social rise of the individual, in an age when appearances were the only way to assert one’s social and economic position.

Admission to the exhibition with the Museum’s hours and ticket.