To the many Roman lazy people and not only, this article of mine is dedicated which invites everyone to visit these which are real artistic events that collect the works that are normally found in the most important museums in the world.
– Let’s start immediately with “Inferno” curated by the French writer and art historian Jean Clear at the Scuderie del Quirinale which will be visible until January 23, 2022.
The exhibition was born on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of the great Dante Alighieri and is a journey into his fantastic world.
The visual path starts from the door of Hell by Auguste Rodin and from the “fall of the rebel angels” by Andrea Commodi and, passing through the medieval works that had the task of terrorizing the people, then continuing on to those of the Renaissance and the Baroque arrives at the twentieth century and its psychoanalytic interpretation.
The artists are among the most important of the various historical periods and among them Botticelli, Beato Angelico, Bosch, Bruegel, Goya, Manet, Delacroix, Rodin, Cezanne, Von Stuck, Balla, Dix, Richter and Kiefer.
In the rooms of the second floor we find the hell caused by wars and the holocaust.
A warning for everyone. A hope for a better future than from the dramatic words of Primo Levi’s book “If this is a man” finally leads us to see the stars again with Kiefer’s space works.
– The exhibition “A silent revolution. Plautilla Bricci painter and architect “curated by the young Yuri Primarosa is in progress at Palazzo Corsini and can be seen until April 19, 2022.
Plautilla Bricci is the first female architect in pre-industrial Europe.
Her figure has recently begun to make itself known thanks to the book “l’Architettrice” written by Melania Mazzucco.
The curator’s study and research work, done with love and wonder, leads us to get to know this important figure of the seventeenth century. A non-rebellious and extreme figure like that of Artemisia Gentileschi but still free, a word that at that time was almost unpronounceable for a woman. Among his pictorial works you can admire the Madonna del Rosario and the St. Louis IX of France between history and faith painted for the church of St. Louis of the French in Rome and designed to be placed next to the Contarelli chapel.
There are several projects of her work as an architect, including the one for the steps of the Trinità dei Monti and the Palazzo del Vascello on the Janiculum which unfortunately was destroyed.
If you are lucky, you may be able to take a guided tour that the young curator Yuri Primarosa occasionally organizes. It’s very interesting. Don’t miss it.
– Klimt. Secession and Italy at Palazzo Braschi curated by: Franz Smola (curator of the Belvedere in Vienna), Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli and Sandra Tretter. Until March 22, 2022. It is not only an exhibition on his figure but also on the period he lived with very beautiful works also by other artists who shared his artistic path and with over 200 works exceptionally coming from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, and from the Klimt Fundation as well as from the private collection of the Neue Gallerie Graz. One-of-a-kind works are exhibited such as Judith, the Bride and Portrait of a Lady, this work stolen from the Ricci Oddi Modern art gallery in Piacenza in 1997 and recovered in 2019.
You will also be able to see beautiful works by other artists and among them Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Johann Victor Kramer, and others and his works compared with many Italian artists including Vittorio Zecchin and Vittorio Casorati.
You will find postcards of his travels in Italy but above all three of his important paintings considered scandalous for their time, the so-called Paintings of the Faculty – medicine, law and philosophy, which were then destroyed in a fire that broke out in the 1945 in the castle of Immendorf in Austria and of which only a few black and white photos remained.
Thanks to artificial intelligence, the Google Art & Culture Lab Team has digitally reconstructed the color panels, giving back to light what must have been the original works.
-Caravaggio and Artemisia: Judith’s challenge. Violence and seduction in painting between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries curated by Maria Cristina Terzaghi at Palazzo Barberini until March 27, 2022.
A real comparison between many artists on the theme that starts precisely from the famous work by Caravaggio entitled “Judith and Holofernes”. Twenty-nine works from museums around the world represent how much Merisi was an inspiration for his contemporary colleagues and beyond. There are four sections that involve the viewer. In the first room we begin to see the first diversifications on the theme as early as the sixteenth century by various painters. To admire the version of Tintoretto and Lavinia Fontana.
In the second dedicated to Caravaggio his Giuditta stands out at the back of the room. Then there are the works of other artists who were inspired by him. Among these Trophime Bigot, Valentin de Boulogne, Louis Finson, Bartolomeo Mendozzi, Giuseppe Vermiglio and Filippo Vitale.
Do you think that Merisi’s work was initially attributed to Orazio Gentileschi and thanks to the art historian Corrado Ricci and the restorer Pico Cellini who accidentally managed to admire it at the home of an old man in Via Giulia who, almost frightened, showed him the painting “very dirty but that makes a huge impression”.
The third room is dedicated to the painter Artemisia Gentileschi, an extraordinary female figure with a strong role despite the physical violence she had to suffer and who in her work exactly embodies the figure of Judith who cuts off the head of Holofernes.
She who, in order to maintain her freedom and independence, marries a homosexual. They dialogue with her work, Giuditta and the maid with the head of Holofernes made by her father Orazio Gentileschi and with the beautiful works of Giovanni Baglione, Johan Liss, Bartolomeo Manfredi, Pietro Novelli, Mattia Preti, Giuseppe Vermiglio and Biagio Manzoni.
In the fourth and last room the theme of Judith and Holofernes meets that of David and Goliath, who have in common the victory of virtue, cunning and ingenuity over the violence and arrogance of the wicked who is beheaded.
You can admire the David with the head of Goliath by Valentin de Boulogne and the Salome and the servant with the head of the Baptist by Rustichino.
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