(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 22 - In the exuberant festoons that frame the large loggia of Villa Farnesina, at the epoch stage of great luxury for the parties and receptions that the banker Chigi, his wealthy owner, organized frequently to maintain his many and important relationships, the very good Giovanni Da Udine also wanted to mention the fruits and vegetables that had just arrived from the Americas, absolute first fruits for the Roman aristocracy, such as yellow squash, courgettes, corn.
And America somehow returns and pays homage to the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael, author of many wonders of this villa, with a comic story published by Mickey "Uncle Scrooge and the stone of the beyondblù" that the Accademia dei Lincei, today owner of the sumptuous mansion of which Virginia Lapenta is curator, she will put on show in February, exhibiting cartoons and sketches.
And not only that, because in the phantasmagoric residence of the banker Agostino Chigi who wanted to marry his beautiful Francesca Ordeasca there, what must have been the in situ laboratory of the divine painter at the time with some of the objects that we find in his paintings will be reconstructed for the occasion. , the jewels that he made to wear to his models, from Fornarina to the very beautiful and unfortunate Ordesasca, the bride who made such a mandal and who died mysteriously, very young, shortly after Raffaello and the same banker her husband.
Needless to say, the most interesting detail of that reconstructed shop will be Raphael's colors, the pigments he used, and above all the elements recovered from the Latin recipe that were used to reproduce the precious bluegizio, the historical pigment that he recreated on purpose to use in the fresco dedicated to the Triumph of Galatea.
A curiosity? A great lover of antiquities and a passionate scholar, Raphael actually did not know Latin.
However, he had brilliantly solved the problem by hiring a translator who was always with him, a permanent collaborator of his shop.
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