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Evenemang i Rom med omgivningar: detaljer
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| From 29 February 2008 to 10 June 2008
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| Ottocento - 19th Century painting in Italy
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Ottocento - Da Canova al Quarto Stato
Scuderie del Quirinale
Via XXIV Maggio, 16
Rome, Italy
open: 10.00 20.00
“Ottocento” “The 19th century.
This is the very first time that an exhibition has been devoted purely to 19th century painting in Italy. Despite being the century in which Italy won its freedom and its national independence, in other words the era of the national reawakening, the 19th century has always seemed to coincide with Italy's loss of its former leading role, after the country's culture and civilisation had dominated the world for centuries. While opera, with Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini, was universally appreciated (and has remained so), only the sculptor Canova in the early part of the century and the painters Boldini and Segantini in the latter part have enjoyed anything like genuine international recognition.
The aim of this exhibition is to show how, in Rome and Milan, in Florence and Naples, a handful of excellent painters struggled, in an extremely tough historical environment, to realise works of art in keeping with the best Italian tradition, up to the standard of a glorious past whose splendour appeared to be fading increasingly out of their reach.
Appiani, Palagi, Hayez and the members of the Romantic School in Milan, Macchiaioli such as Fattori, Lega and Signorini in Florence, "veduta" painters from the Posillipo school and Morelli in Naples all proved capable of interpreting the slow, often golden sunset of the classical ideal and of the supposedly unchangeable rules of the Academy, managing to replace them with an approach based on truth, on the great grassroots ideals of the Risorgimento and of existential inner conflicts in the Romantics, on the simplicity of nature and daily life in the Macchaioli, or on the mysterious paths of the soul in Morelli, forging a new ideal of beauty designed to reflect the concerns of modern man.
Striking portraits like the heroic Principessa Belgiojoso, sensual female nudes by Francesco Hayez, painter of the famous Il Bacio, melancholy family scenes such as the unforgettable Canto di uno stornello by Silvestro Lega, and the dazzling small panel paintings (with the enchanting Bagni della Rotonda Palmieri the most dazzling of all) and probing portraits of Giovanni Fattori, brought together from major museums and from the most important private collections, will plunge us headlong into the passions, the hopes and the disappointments of a country struggling for its independence and for the creation of a fairer society.
A rift occurred in the world of painting after the unity of Italy (starting with the revolutionary experience of the Macchiaioli which lasted a mere 10 years) between official artists approved of by the establishment and those, in permanent conflict with society, who were trying to achieve a new way of seeing and interpreting reality.
This exhibition is designed to provide an overview of the various movements' different starting points and of the results that those movements achieved, ranging from the artistic vocabulary of the "macchia" based on a powerful synthesis of colour and shape, to the materialisation of the image through vibrant luminosity as pursued by Morelli, or to the experiments with atmosphere that typified the Scapigliatura and Divisionismo movements. The leading players in this movement - Segantini, Morbelli, Novellini, Previati and Pelizza da Volpedo, who are represented in the exhibition by masterpieces which are unforgettable also in the light of their historical significance, like the extremely famous Quarto Stato- bear witness to the thoroughly European importance and modernity of this last great season in Italian 19th century painting.
A number of absolute masterpieces of sculpture by such artists as Canova, Tenerani, Bartolini, Vela, Duprè, Cecioni, Gemito and right up to and including Medardo Rosso, will be strategically positioned at key transition points throughout the exhibition, punctuating the various sections in an effort to provide a more comprehensive illustration of the development of art in the 19th century.
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