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The Scuola dei Calegheri of Venice is mentioned for the first time in a document, a brotherhood of artisan shoemakers, whose task is to satisfy the capricious needs of the Venetian patricians in terms of footwear. The image shows the seal of the brotherhood.
Category: Footwear Sector
©Acrib
The Great Council of the Republic of Venice abolishes the law that prevents its citizens from purchasing land on the mainland.
Category: Venezia
© Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Vittore Carpaccio, The Walking Lion of Saint Mark, 1516
The war of Padua ends. With the conquest by the Serenissima of Padua and the entire Veneto, the “Stato da Tera” of the Venetians is officially born. From this moment begins the race for the construction of prestigious houses along the banks of the river Brenta.
Category: Venezia
© Site: One Venetian curiosity at a time – http://stedrs.blogspot.com/2017/02/santilario-di-fusina-dove-iniziava-e.html
Jacopo Foscarini is born to Alvise and Marietta Donà in Venice in the family palace in Santa Sofia.
Category: Foscarini Family
© Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Portrait of the Podestà Jacopo Foscarini, 1575
The Holy League, which unites all the states in defense of Christianity, wins the battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman Empire, managing to block the advance of the Turks in the Mediterranean basin.
Category: Venezia
© Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Andrea Vicentino the Battle of Lepanto, 1603
After the Battle of Lepanto, the sea captain Jacopo Foscarini replaces Sebastiano Venier as head of the Venetian fleet. Thanks to his skills as a patient negotiator, he will have the task of quickly restoring peace in the Mediterranean.
Category: Foscarini Family
©Naval History Museum, Venice, Domenico Tintoretto, Portrait of Jacopo Foscarini
Visit of Henry III of Valois to Venice. At the end of the trip, the new king presents Jacopo Foscarini with the privilege of adding the lilies of France to his coat of arms as a sign of gratitude for the services received during his stay in the city.
Category: Foscarini Family
©Gemälde Galerie, Dresden, Palma il Giovane, The reception of Henry III at Ca’ Foscari, 1595
Jacopo Foscarini completes the renovation of a country house along the banks of the Brenta River, where he already owns a farm, entrusting the task to the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi.
Category: Villa
©Vincenzo Coronelli, Palazzo Foscarini, 1711
Alvise Foscarini, nephew of Jacopo, has completed the decoration of the Foresteria in Stra, entrusting it to the painters Domenico De Bruni and Pietro Liberi, to celebrate the wedding of his son Gianbattista with the noble Venetian Chiara Soranzo.
Category: Villa
©Villa Foscarini Rossi, Stra, Sala delle feste della Foresteria, Ceiling with celebration of the virtues of the Foscarini family, Domenico de’ Bruni and Pietro Liberi, 1652.
Marco Foscarini, a cultured nobleman and distinguished man of letters, is elected doge. He will remain in office for only one year, due to a sudden death and will be the third to last doge of the Serenissima Republic.
Category: Foscarini Family
©Sala dello scrutinio of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, speaking portrait of doge Marco Foscarini
On October 17, 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte, with the Treaty of Campoformio, put an end to the Republic of Venice, ceding it to Austria. Among the various disastrous consequences of this event, there will be the abolition of the confraternities.
Category: Venezia
© Archives Nationales de France, Treaty of Campo-Formio between the French Republic and Austria. Act drawn up in French on 26 Vendemiaire Year VI (17 October 1797), in Campoformido, Italy.
The main body of Villa Foscarini, (passed on to the Garzoni family, then to the Negrellis), was renovated, adapting it to the taste of the time and the needs of the new owners.
Category: Villa
© Villa Foscarini Rossi, Stra, Egyptian Room in the main building, Venetian school, 1830s.
Giovanni Luigi Voltan, returning from the United States, opens the first European mechanized factory to produce footwear in Stra in Riviera del Brenta.
Category: Footwear Sector
©G.Fontana, G.Franceschetti, G.Roverato, “100 years of footwear industry”, Acrib, 1998
Between the end of 1943 and the final stages of the Second World War, the right wing of the Foresteria was hit by mistake by a bomb launched by the Allied forces. The real target was probably the bridge over the Brenta canal, a strategic point connecting the two banks of the river.
Category: Villa
Narciso Rossi begins producing his own footwear with the help of two partners.
Category: Rossimoda
F.Jori, “1961/2001 – 40 anni di Acrib”, Acrib 2001
Luigino Rossi, son of Narciso, joins his father in the business with his two brothers Dino and Diego.
Category: Rossimoda
© Rossimoda Spa
Rossimoda, thanks to the agreement with Yves Saint Laurent, obtains the first licensing contract with a fashion house for the production and marketing of footwear.
Category: Rossimoda
©Jeanloup Sieff ©Yves Saint Laurent
Luigino Rossi purchases the Villa Padronale and the Guesthouse of the architectural complex of Villa Foscarini and undertakes a colossal work of recovery of the two now dilapidated buildings, under the direction of the architect Vincenzo Testoni.
Category: Villa
©Architect Vincenzo Testoni
The Footwear Museum of Villa Foscarini Rossi, a testimony to the entrepreneurial journey of the Rossimoda factory, opens to the public after 4 years of careful restoration.
Category: Rossimoda
©Foto Dives ©Villa Foscarini Rossi
The French luxury financial group LVMH acquires control of Rossimoda and Villa Foscarini Rossi.
Category: Rossimoda
©Rossimoda Spa
Start of the project to digitize the company archive, still in progress. It currently has over 17,800 photographed and catalogued models of the precious historical deposit preserved in Rossimoda.
Category: Rossimoda
©Villa Foscarini Rossi
The Footwear Museum becomes independent from the Rossimoda factory, with the ambition of becoming a cultural reference center for all the brands that the LVMH group produces in the Riviera del Brenta.
Category: Villa
©Villa Foscarini Rossi
All the heating, cooling, lighting and curtain systems in the Museum are replaced, to adapt them to the needs of protection and enhancement of the footwear collection housed inside.
Category: Villa
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