From 05th October 2019 to 05th January 2020, the exhibition La Pittura Rivoluzionaria nell’800 Risorgimentale (The Revolutionary Painting in the Risorgimento) will be at Palazzo Gonzaga, in Volta Mantovana, Italy.
Buy tickets online, they are also available for groups and schools.
In this exhibition, the researchers want to offer a selection of
unpublished works by important artists, each with their own personal vision and technique,
covering the entire era of the great cultural and ideological change of nineteenth-century Italian painting.
For the first time, the event offers the general public the possibility of viewing
important autograph paintings and letters from private collections never exhibited before, presenting them all together in a collective exhibition that aims to conjugate art and history.
The curators of the exhibition propose a selection of works by young artists who rejected the stereotyped subjects of the academies proposing scenes of rural life, work activities and landscapes typical of the campaigns of the time.
1861 was also a historic date for Italian art, the artists of the time found themselves united under the single flag, and the opportunities to meet and exchange experiences also multiplied from the stylistic point of view: ideas, trends, opinions spread more easily throughout the peninsula animated by a rediscovered patriotic spirit. A very strong feeling, that of the unity of our country that found a way to express itself also through painting:
the light spread over patriotic souls and also over the canvas.
The exhibition includes an
excursus of works and artists that have characterized the whole century, united by the discovery of the naturalness of light, the absolute protagonist of the technical and stylistic changes of the most important masters of the period.
Through the proposed works, important exponents of 19th-century painting will be present from
Zandomeneghi to
Pratella, from
Irolli to
Dall'Oca Bianca, passing through
Mancini,
Pompeo Mariani,
Raffaello Sernesi,
Ludovico Tommasi,
Silvestro Lega, and
Fontanesi. all historicized artists,
each of whom has shaped his own painting by light.
The paintings will be accompanied by
autograph documents of the most important figures of the period such as
Garibaldi and
Mazzini, who have indelibly marked the destiny of a country, a people and consequently the vision of the artists to their contemporaries. A temporal exhibition itinerary is proposed in order to guide the public through the evolution of the execution technique adopted by the different artists so that it can identify the evolution of painting and its interpenetration or exfoliation in the light.
The exhibition will be open Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday throughout the opening period, except on Christmas day.
Free admission for children up to 10 years accompanied.
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