The Tarbouche. When an Accessory Becomes a Symbol

Fifteen of the fezzes here were made by people who don't usually make fezzes. In 2015 Mouna Rebeiz asked about forty designers, Marni, Jimmy Choo, René Caovilla and Zaha Hadid among them, to rework the red conical hat men across the Islamic world have worn since the 14th century.

Her own paintings move the hat onto someone else. Rebeiz, born in Beirut in 1957 and trained in old-master technique in Paris, paints monumental female nudes, often posed as the Three Graces, each wearing the man's tarbouche. There are more than thirty works, some painted for this show after she studied a rare doge's cap in the city's civic collections. You reach them in a palazzo full of 18th-century gowns, so the hat is read as costume. In a city selling carnival masks on every corner, it's a whole show about one hat.

It's included in the €15 museum ticket (€7.50 reduced). Closed Mondays; from 1 November the museum shuts at 17:00, and the show ends 8 November.