Un Ospite di Venezia-11-2023
Around the middle of the century, Francesco Hayez portrays Matilde, a young noblewoman from the Pirovano Visconti di Modrone family: an undoubtedly splendid work by an artist recognized as the main exponent of the Italian Romantic movement. This is the image we have chosen to open this month to introduce one of the most important artistic and cultural events of the year: the reconstruction, a hundred years later, of what turned out to be a true event, an exhibition that brought to light the Venetian art of an entire century, long overshadowed by the mythologizing of the preceding one, the 18th century.
Around the middle of the century, Francesco Hayez portrays Matilde, a young noblewoman from the Pirovano Visconti di Modrone family: an undoubtedly splendid work by an artist recognized as the main exponent of the Italian Romantic movement.
This is the image we have chosen to open this month to introduce one of the most important artistic and cultural events of the year: the reconstruction, a hundred years later, of what turned out to be a true event, an exhibition that brought to light the Venetian art of an entire century, long overshadowed by the mythologizing of the preceding one, the 18th century.
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Rediscovering
the Nineteenth century…
We are about mid-century, when Francesco
Hayez portrays Matilde, a young noblewoman
from the Pirovano Visconti di Modrone family:
an undoubtedly splendid artwork, by an artist
acknowledged as the principal exponent of the
Italian Romantic current.
It is the image we have chosen for opening this
month, in order to introduce one of the most important
artistic and cultural events of the year:
the reconstruction, one hundred years later, of
what revealed itself to be a true occasion, an exhibition
highlighting a century-long Venetian art,
eclipsed for a long time by the former Eighteenth
century's legend.
It was precisely 1923, when Nino Barbantini –
the first Director of the Ca’ Pesaro Modern Art
Gallery – today International - organised and
set up a seminal exhibition entitled “The Nineteenth-century
Venetian portrait”.
The result was an extraordinary success both in
terms of public and press, inaugurating a new
course for the Venetian Gallery and for Barbantini's
activity, aimed, during the Twenties, at planning
significant monographic exhibitions about
periods or individual protagonists in Italian art.
Today, following long-term and complex research
work which has led to sourcing 166 artworks by
52 artists, the Venice City Museums Foundation
takes us back to that historic occasion, to view
the countenances of several society, art, culture
and life figures together again in an exhibition
with that same title, from a territory extending
from Venice to Friuli Venezia Giulia.
A fascinating journey, divided in four sections,
accompanying visitors along the
century's whole span, leading
from the Congress of Vienna
(1815) to the troubled unification
of Italy, touching on the
protagonists of that age and
Nineteenth century lifestyles
of society, concluding with the
"Portrait, towards modernity",
where evident signs of change
will soon lead to a new dimension,
the Twentieth century.
To sum it up, an exhibition for all
enthusiasts, but not only, and a
unique opportunity... not to be
missed.
Fascino e attrazioni
del novembre veneziano
Con l’autunno tutto sembra rallentare, offrendo
una parvenza di pace, di tranquillità, sensazioni
oggi, purtroppo, sempre più rare a trovarsi.
Venezia sembra ancor più immergersi nel suo
elemento naturale, quell’acqua da dove è nata.
Le prime foschie lagunari e le tenue luci della
sera la fanno quasi tornare indietro nel tempo.
E’ il momento di vivere appieno la città attraverso
le emozioni che suscita ma anche per tutto ciò
che offre attraverso i suoi musei, le sue chiese, i
suoi teatri… le sue manifestazioni.
Ecco allora a seguire, come da nostra consuetudine,
qualche spunto su un’offerta che non lascia
dubbi, per qualità e forza attrattiva.
Partiamo come spesso accade da La Biennale,
l’istituzione culturale veneziana per eccellenza,
nota nel mondo per una produzione che da oltre
un secolo promuove le tendenze delle Arti e della
Cultura del mondo contemporaneo.
La Mostra internazionale di Architettura
Oltre che per l’indubbio valore intrinseco va segnalata
per il suo ultimo mese di presenza: la 18.
edizione chiuderà infatti definitivamente i battenti
il 26 di novembre.
Promossa da La Biennale di Venezia questa maxi-esposizione
si sviluppa lungo un vasto percorso
attraverso la mostra tematica, articolata tra il
padiglione centrale ai Giardini, il vasto complesso
dell’Arsenale ed alcuni spazi in terraferma.
Il laboratorio del futuro, questo il titolo assegnatole
dalla curatrice Lesley Lokko, si presenta
come una visione sul prossimo futuro del mondo
e sul rapporto tra uomo e ambiente partendo dal
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