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Tony Podesta is not in prison in the Doge's Palace. The Doge's Palace is a Museum which provide many things for visitors.
'Henri Rousseau. The Archaic Naivety' at the Doge's Palace
A not-to-be-missed exhibition dedicated to the famous French 'Douanier'
From 06 March 2015 to 06 September 2015
https://www.venetoinside.com/events-in-veneto/event/henri-rousseau-the-archaic-naivety-at-the-doges-palace/
The Doge’s Palace in Venice (Italian: Palazzo Ducale di Venezia) is one of the most popular museums and cultural attractions in Italy, with over 1.3 million visitors per year.
By RICCARDO BIANCHINI - July 16, 2017
The Doge’s Palace also host temporary exhibitions of fine art, history, and applied arts, along with special events, talks, conferences, and educational programs for schools, families, children, and adults.
The museum complex also accommodates a bookshop, and a cafe. The core exhibition is accessible to physically impaired people, while the visits to the former prison, the armory, and to some of the medieval rooms are not.
https://www.inexhibit.com/mymuseum/doge-palace-venice-palazzo-ducale/
What was going on at Doge's Palace in June 2015? Did Tony Podesta visit there, before his hospital stay or after?
A central figure in figurative art between the end of the 19th century and the revolutionary period of the avant-garde movements, and famous for his dreamlike atmospheres, forests and enchanted landscapes, Henri Rousseau (Laval, 1844 – Paris, 1910), has always been impossible to pigeonhole.
Exhibition HENRI ROUSSEAU Archaic candour March 6 – July 5, 2015
http://palazzoducale.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/archivio-mostre-en/rousseau-venice/2015/01/6429/henri-rousseau-doges-palace/
Artists such as Cézanne and Gauguin, Redon and Seurat, Marc, Klee, Morandi, Carrà, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, not to mention Kandinsky and Picasso. All of these artists will be present in the show with works that fit in coherently with those painted by Le Douanier in his brief but intense creative season between 1884 and 1910.
Alongside these artists, the exhibition will present a careful selection of Old Masters including Liberale da Verona, Fede Galizia, Frans Post and Francisco Goya – to offer a wholly new critical investigation into that inspiration stimulated by archaism which over the centuries runs hand in hand with classicism and of which Rousseau’s oeuvre seems to mark the watershed between 19th and 20th century.
Room 3 THE RIDE OF DISCORD
War is woman wielding a sword and a burning torch that recalls the scythe, a symbol of death. She is not actually mounted on the galloping black steed but rather glides beside it over an expanse of scattered bodies, some already torn by crowns, in the timeless, apocalyptic atmospheree af a bleak landscape against a background of fiery clouds. The other works exhibited here serve to indicate the iconographic sources of Rousseau’s painting and provide comparisons with coeval approaches to the same subject. The female figure personifying war or death has numerous points of reference in ancient painting developd around the theme of the Triunph of Death or Danse Macabre. An interesting example is provided by the work by the Tuscan artist known as Scheggia, brother of the more famous Masaccio, where lively colour is combined with primitive stylization that is far removed from measured classical balance.
The other works exhibited here serve to indicate the iconographic sources of Rousseau’s painting and provide comparisons with coeval approaches to the same subject.
around the theme of the Triunph of Death or Danse Macabre. An interesting example is provided by the work by the Tuscan artist known as Scheggia
The gerneral sense of devastation and desperation that emerges in Rousseau’s work recalls Goya’s masterly Desastres de la Guerra
Among the works painted in the same period as Rousseau’s, the modern Triumphs of Death of the Belgian artist James Ensor takes up a classical subject with expressionistic emotional intensity, while the War of Gaston La Touche, a pupil of Manet close to the Impressionists, is characterized by the marked dynamism and striking use of perspective.
http://palazzoducale.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/archivio-mostre-en/rousseau-venice/2015/04/7039/room-3/
This Exhibit appears to focussed on Death and Killing. Tony must have been in the need for inspiration.