(ANSA) - MILAN, 20 JUL - A journey into over sixty years of Italian Renaissance art to investigate how artists have shaped materials, from marble, to bronze, to wood, to describe human feelings, the motions of the soul. It opens to the public tomorrow, until 24 October, at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan 'The body and the soul, from Donatello to Michelangelo.
Italian Renaissance Sculpture '. The exhibition, hosted until 21 June in the rooms of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, is promoted by the Castello Sforzesco together with the Parisian museum and has as curators Marc Bormand, curator at the Louvre's disculture department, Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, former director of the Bargello Museum and Francesca Tasso, curator and responsible for the artistic collections of the Castello Sforzesco.
The exhibition itinerary, which is divided into four sections (Looking at the ancients - Fury and grace, Sacred art: moving and convincing, From Dionysus to Apollo and Rome CaputMundi) ends symbolically with the vision of Michelangelo's PietàRondanini, which is his artistic testament and on which the master worked practically until his death in 1564. In the exhibition there are 120 works from museums around the world of artists such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bramante, Donatello.
This exhibition "is not a simple collaboration but a research project that lasted years - explained ClaudioSalsi, director of the Castello Sforzesco, speaking of the collaboration with the Louvre -. This experience is not usual in museums. It is an exhibition that I believe is quite unrepeatable". (HANDLE).