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Exhibitions in Italy
The choice of Terra D'Arte
A small selection of exhibitions and events in Italy
Marche Art History Courses.
Dante Alighieri Camerino
12 January - 9 March 2010
This winter 2009/2010 in MARCHE for the first time short ART HISTORY COURSES at the
DANTE ALIGHIERI SCHOOL CAMERINO - each course consists of 3 lessons and 1 excursion.
Lessons are held in English (but we also talk Italian of course), No prior knowledge of art history is necessary to participate.
2010 - Celebrations in honor of Matteo Ricci.
More info soon
Macerata, Marche Italy
Matteo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit priest who travelled to China
in the 16th Century. He was a missionary, scientist, humanist,
and educator– a Renaissance Man. He ranks as the most cultivated
man of his time and "one of the most remarkable and brilliant
men of history". The founder of the modern Chinese Church,
Matteo Ricci is respected as a national figure even by the Chinese
Communist Party.
For Ricci, learning and academic excellence in the Jesuit way
served as a magnet that could draw people to God. As with all
things, learning comes from God, and finally, nothing is really
secular. An authority on mathematics, astronomy, apologetics,
literature, popular catechesis, poetry, and a lover of art and
music, Ricci fascinated and attracted the Chinese intelligentsia.
He approached evangelization primarily, but not solely, through
the scientific apostolate.
Carlo Crivelli e Brera.
Brera, Milan
25/11/2009 - 28/03/2010
The Brera is celebrating its bicentenary with an exhibition about
Carlo Crivelli (ca. 1430 - ca 1493), for which a part of the paintings
returns to Milan. Earlier, in the 19th century, Brera swopped
part of Crivelli’s artpieces -like double-figures- with paintings
from other artists. It is the opportunity to see and study the
Annunciation from London next to contemporary works of the same
artist that were commissioned for the city of Camerino (Marche):
the Triptych of St. Domenicus and the polyptych of the cathedral,
complete with the painted parts of the wooden frames. These panels
are now spread over several international collections, after that
they were, during the course of the 19th century, sawn in pieces
and sold separately.
The intention of the exhibit is not to reconstruct the career
of Crivelli, but to ponder about what drove Brera to deal with
these art works in this particular way. And to reflect on the
strategies of different international museums during the 19th
century, to be able to have as much artworks as possible – and
especially the most prestigious ones- like a match.
The exhibition features art from the last phase of Crivelli's
career, the years eighties and nineties of the fifteenth century,
so this is also a suitable occasion to observe the crucial transition
in his artistic progression, which is often not been given the
value it deserves. From the eighties Crivelli no longer paints
polyptics. He begins to paint on a singular large panels and his
new challenge is to depict the visible reality through painting
as closely as possible, in an extremely detailed way.
The polyptych of St. Domenicus is a real tour de force of illusionism,
with figures that have been created adding real three-dimensional
additions (jewelry, keys). In other works these applications in
'pastiglia', like stones, pieces of glass and metals, are excluded.
From there on it is just the real painting that creates the illusion.
To illustrate that Crivelli is very clever in creating the illusion
of different materials in his paintings, also objects from the
fifteenth century are exhibited such as brocade fabrics, ceramics,
carpets and gold, all objects that also occur in his paintings.
From these perspectives the Brera desires to show to visitors
in a small and special exhibition dedicated to Crivelli, in which
also other art works from the collection are shown, a richer and
fuller picture of Crivelli that is more consistent with the actual
artistic ‘statura’ of an uncomfortable but amazing artist.
Chagall and the Mediterranean
09/10/2009 - 17/01/2010
Pisa, Blu - Palazzo d'arte e cultura
The Palazzo Blu exhibits 150 art works, paintings, sculpture, ceramics and lithographs, from the collections of important French public museums as the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nizza, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau Cambrésis and from private collections, all art pieces created by the Russian artist from 1926 onwards. It was the first time for the artist to encounter the Mediterrean light, it's colors, it's landscape and towns, of France, Greece and the Holy Land.
The Cardinal's Rooms.
Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Guercino and
Mattia Preti for Cardinal Pallotta.
23/5/2009 - 12/11/2009
Caldarola, Palazzo Pallotta
Following the success of the De Magistris exhibition, Caldarola
is hosting another important exhibition in the Palazzo Pallotta
palace, this time featuring the figure of Cardinal Giambattista
Pallotta, a refined and cultured collector from Rome in the Baroque
era.
Through a detailed investigation, the most important paintings
that once belonged to the Cardinal have been located in various
museums and private collections. Of particular interest are the
canvasses by Caravaggio, Guercino, Guido Reni, Elisabetta Sirani,
Domenichino, Sassoferrato, Mattia Preti, Carlo Maratti, Scarsellino
and D’Arpino.
Art and Illusions
Masterpieces of Tromp-l'oeil
from Antiquity to the present day
16/10/2009 - 24/1/2010
Florence - Palazzo Strozzi
Federico Barocci (1535-1612).
The Charm of Colour. A Lesson For Two Centuries.
11/10/2009 - 10/1/2010
Siena, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala.
This exhibit is dedicated to the genius Barocci who's fame during
the 16th Century was similar to artists like Raphael, Michelangelo,
Titian and Correggio in the countries of Italy, Spane, Bohemia,
Bavaria and Flanders.
The Barocci exhibit shows 34 works from museums of London, Paris,
Vienna, Rome, Napels, Florence, Perugia, Urbino, Senigallia and
Assisi. Two paintings have been restored especially for the exhibit:
The Descent from the Cross from the cathedral of Perugia, and
The Pardon of Assisi from the church of Saint Francis at Urbino.
Next to the discovering through Barocci's art works, of his charm
of light and colour, so tipical of the atmosphere that the master
from the Renaissance City of Urbino creates in his masterworks,
a part of the exhibit is dedicated to artists influenced by his
work. Artist that were contemporary to him, like Annibale, Ludovico
and Agostino Carracci, Lodovico Cigoli, Bernardo Strozzi, Guido
Reni, Pietro da Cortona, and also Rubens and Van Dyck. But also
artists of a later date were inspired by him, and are present
with their works at the exhibit, like Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Rosalba
Carriera, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The exhibit
houses a section that is dedicated to the painters from Sienna
who have contributed to the diffusion of his fame: Francesco Vanni,
Ventura Salimbeni, Alessandro Casolani and Rutilio Manetti
From Rembrandt to Gauguin and Picasso.
Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
10/10/2009 - 14/3/2010
Rimini, Castel Sismondo.
An event that cannot be missed, as it will never occur again.
Sixty five masterpieces of European painting – dating from the
sixteenth to the twentieth century – from one of the world’s most
important museums, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. An occasion
that will never be repeated, as it is the result of the American
institute’s temporary closure of a portion of its exhibition space
for renovations.
Although the works cover many important European national schools,
the exhibition in Rimini was arranged by Marco Goldin according
to a conception of continuous thematic groupings, divided into
six sections: Religious work; The nobleness of the portrait; The
intimacy of the portrait; Still lifes; Interiors; The "new"
landscape
Thus, in this arrangement, portraits by Tintoretto and Moroni
will be displayed alongside an absolute masterpiece, a wonder
among wonders, the famous portrait of Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli
painted by Degas in 1865. In addition, an incredible series of
portraits begins with masterpieces by Velásquez and Rembrandt
and ends with an unforgettable large canvas by Picasso featuring
a Cubist portrait of a woman, dating from 1910. De Hooch, Saenredam
and De Witte are represented as well, with their almost metaphysical
interiors from seventeenth-century Holland. Not to mention an
astounding selection of Impressionist works t??hat will include,
in addition to the artists previously mentioned, Manet, Sisley,
Pissarro, Cézanne,Bernard, Signac, Gauguin and Van Gogh. In brief,
a wealth of beauty that will radiate from Rimini.
46. Stagione Lirica 2010.
Macerata Sferisterio Opera Festival
A maggior gloria di Dio
29/7/2010 - 12/8/2010
Artistic director Pier Luigi Pizzi
www.sferisterio.it
