URBINO - The art of the Renaissance, between sculpture and painting, is the protagonist of the exhibitions set up this week, but there is no lack of contemporary, with tributes to Luigi Ghirri and Federico Fellini.
URBINO - The refined language of a great Renaissance artist arrives at Palazzo Ducale thanks to the exhibition "Perugino, the master of Raphael", set up from 19 July and curated by Vittorio Sgarbi. Through 20 works, with loans from the National Gallery of Umbria, from the Museum of Ancient Art and Sacred Art of Sutri, from the treasure museum of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, as well as from the National Gallery of the Marche in Urbino, the itinerary focuses on the most shining moment of Perugino's career who for two decades managed to enjoy undisputed success and to attract commissions from all over Italy, to the point of having two shops in Florence and Perugia.
MILAN - 120 works from the most important museums in the world to tell 60 years of Renaissance sculpture: after the Louvre, the exhibition "The body and soul. From Donatello to Michelangelo" will be held at the Castello Sforzesco until 24 October. The path, studied and designed jointly by Musée du Louvre and Castello Sforzesco, is divided into 4 sections and reveals the ways in which artists of the caliber of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Pollaiolo, Michelangelo, Verrocchio, Bambaia and many others , represented the human figure not only paying attention to anatomy but also to the emotional component.
GIBELLINA (TP) - "Images Gibellina", the first open air and site-specific photography and visual arts festival scheduled until 29 August in Gibellina, opens on 30 July with a double tribute to the great Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri. 31 exhibitions make up the calendar of the event, which feature some of the main artists of the international contemporary scene, such as Bruce Gilden (USA), Stephen Gill (UK), Maurizio Galimberti (Italy), Batia Suter (Switzerland), Francesco Jodice ( Italy), Riverboom (Italy / Switzerland), Fang Wen (China), Simona Ghizzoni (Italy), Massimo Siragusa (Italy), Jun Ahn (Korea), Robert Pufleb & Nadine Schlieper (Germany), Hayahisa Tomiyasu (Japan), Giulia Piermarini / Edoardo De Lille (Italy), Cécile Hummel (Switzerland), all called to deal with outdoor installations.
SANTA SEVERA (RM) - At the Castle of Santa Severa until 19 September "The face of books. Books to see", by Giuseppe Garrera and Igor Patruno: through a selection of particularly significant covers, from the 1950s to today, some made by famous authors (from Munari to Boetti and Rotella), the itinerary tells the visual adventure of books, their being cult objects to be preserved and handed down even before being read.
NUORO - The exhibitions "Via San Gennaro", a solo show by Sonia Leimer (Merano, 1977), curated by Luigi Fassi and dedicated to the project that won the 'Italian Council of 2018, and "Vittorio Accornero - Edina Altara. Family group with images", the first retrospective entirely conceived in homage to the work and figures of Vittorio Accornero de Testa (Casale Monferrato, 1896 - Milan, 1982) and Edina Altara (Sassari, 1898 - Lanusei, 1983), curated by Luca Scarlini. Through sculptures, videos and drawings, the result of a research on the Italian memories of Little Italy in Manhattan, "Via San Gennaro" documents Leimer's interest in the investigation of metropolitan spaces,social metamorphosis and urban transformations. "Vittorio Accornero - Edina Altara.
Family group with images "instead reconstructs the profitable and eclectic career of the two great illustrators of books for children and adults, who worked in the Art Deco era, extending their activities to the entire world of applied arts.
BRESCIA - The exhibition "Federico Fellini | Behind the scenes", which documents a lesser known side of the great director, the more private one, distant from the official image, closes on 31 July at the MO.CA Center for new cultures in Brescia.
Curated by Renato Corsini, the itinerary presents about 50 shots, many of which vintage, including the sequential portraits by Sandro Becchetti, the set photographs by Tazio Secchiaroli and those of the Dufoto Agency, with the backstage of the films.
