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Baldassarre Castiglione, the Court and the world

2020-07-18T19:16:04.128Z


'' The Rome exhibition dedicated to Raphael is a beautiful exhibition, but it says nothing that was not already known. (HANDLE)


(by Luciano Fioramonti) (ANSA) - URBINO, JULY 18 - `` That of Rome dedicated to Raffaello is a beautiful exhibition, but it says nothing that you don't already know. Ours is original and innovative, it is a new story that extends beyond painting and reconstructs a central personality of the Italian and European Renaissance ''.
   Vittorio Sgarbi, with his usual verve, skillfully turns attention to the appointment that Urbino dedicates until 1 November to Baldassarre Castiglione and to his famous `` Book of the Cortegiano '', gospel for the perfect gentleman and access key to understanding the places of the power and high society in Italy and Europe in the early sixteenth century. The character, from Mantua by birth, arrived in the Marche region in 1504.
   Very close friend of Raphael, in the Ducal Palace wanted by Federico da Montefeltro, "the most beautiful that can be found in all of Italy", he sketched the treatise on court life, followed by a long rewrite and integration work after the transfer to Rome as ambassador of the Gonzaga and concluded with publication in 1528, one year before his death in Toledo.
    His name and that of the great painter from Urbino also intertwine in the title of the exhibition, between the faces and aspects of that court life that Sgarbi has reconstructed, taking care of the story collected and refined together with Elisabetta Soletti. "The fortune of Italy were the protagonists of a unique chefece moment - explains the art historian -. The Renaissance myth was born in Urbino and it is due to them".
    In the Sala del Castellare passions, friendships and relationships of Baldassarre Castiglione with artists, sovereigns, literaries, aristocrats, popes and prelates, flow alongside highly valuable paintings, such as the two great Titians cherishing Giulio Romano and the Patriarch of Aquileia Giovanni Romani, and a selection of objects, jewels, fragmentary archaeologists, vases, mirrors, bronzes, cameos and medals to testify his passion for collecting, very widespread among nobles and aristocrats, and the antiques taste of the time.
   (HANDLE).

Source: ansa

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