News

FROM 16 JUNE TO 5 SEPTEMBER 2010
Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia - Roma

Mostra La Forma del Rinascimento
From 16 June to 5 september 2010
Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
Via del Plebiscito, 118 - Roma

tel. +39 0632810

Hours:
Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 19.00

The exhibition, organized by the Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological and the Museums of Rome, directed by Scarlett Vodret, Andrea Bregno National Committee and with the collaboration of the Fabric of St. Peter, and curated by Claudio Crescentini Claudio Strinati, is a unique event, focusing on sculpture of the Renaissance in Rome, one of the artistic languages not much frequented by the public and investigated by the activities of three great artists of the period: Donatello, Andrea Bregno Michelangelo.
Promoted by a prestigious Scientific Committee which consists of the greatest Italian and international scholars of the subject, the exhibition aims to represent a crucial moment study of the three protagonists of the sculpture of the fifteenth century, caught in that particular renewal period style, located in Rome of the new humanist Popes from Pius II Piccolomini Leo X Medici - the sixties of the fifteenth century the twenties of the sixteenth century - lived in the light of the memory of old masters, with the prospect of creating a new form of sculpture, which precisely Renaissance .
Antiquity and modernity are so connected through the work of these three great masters, which were selected sculptures often hardly visible and / or rare to find, as well as some very unusual, especially as regards the Bregno and Michelangelo, accompanied a rigorous scientific documentation that supports and confirms the assignment.
Of special interest in the exhibition for the first time in a unit, the nucleus of the fifteenth century sculptures from the Fabbrica di San Pietro in Vatican City of Mino da Fiesole and Giovanni Dalmata. Their works of these sculptors are also confronted with forms and signs of other artists of the period applied to sculpture: Leonardo da Vinci, and Andrea Sansovino Andrea Riccio, etc..
The climax of the exhibition a valuable relief in marble by Michelangelo never exhibited before, or Aeolus Wind Marine, already part of the sculptural decoration of the church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Capranica Prenestina (RM), architectural work given the same artist and commission of Porcari, Capranica , family strongly linked to Michelangelo by other patrons of art, from the most famous Risen Christ in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.
The layout was designed by Luigi Marchione, a leading contemporary designers, winning numerous European awards, among which were two David di Donatello for historical films by Ermanno Olmi, and the lighting was entrusted to the lighting designer Francesca Storaro.
The organization and communication have been given to Civita