(ANSA) - LONDON, APRIL 06 - Almost 90 masterpieces, including exceptional works and others less known, which reflect the eclectic and multifaceted art of an absolute genius of beauty: the National Gallery of London dedicates a sumptuous retrospective to Raffaello Sanzio, the before this taken out of Italy, which contains the twenty-year epic of the supreme painter of the High Renaissance in all its serene grace and extraordinary variety.
Originally scheduled for 2020, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the death of Urbinate (who died just 37 years old on 6 April 1520, as is known), then postponed due to the pandemic, the exhibition-event marks the return of a great cultural event in a United Kingdom now free from all anti-Covid restrictions.
Retracing in chronological order the dazzling artistic career of Raphael, it proposes not only some of his most famous paintings - from the Madonna del Cardellino (Uffizi Gallery), to the portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione (Louvre), to the Fornarina (Palazzo Barberini) - but also evidence of his multifaceted ingenuity, partly unheard of to the general public, in fields ranging from architecture to archeology, from poetry to design for sculpture, to tapestries, printing and applied arts.
With the aim of exploring every aspect of his activity, in order to show plastically how and why the master from Urbino played such a central role in the history of Italian and world art.
it offers not only some of his most famous paintings - from the Madonna del Cardellino (Uffizi Gallery), to the portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione (Louvre), to the Fornarina (Palazzo Barberini) - but also testimonies of his multifaceted genius, partly unpublished to the great public, in fields ranging from architecture to archeology, from poetry to design for sculpture, to tapestries, printing, applied arts.
With the aim of exploring every aspect of his activity, in order to show plastically how and why the master from Urbino played such a central role in the history of Italian and world art.
it offers not only some of his most famous paintings - from the Madonna del Cardellino (Uffizi Gallery), to the portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione (Louvre), to the Fornarina (Palazzo Barberini) - but also testimonies of his multifaceted genius, partly unpublished to the great public, in fields ranging from architecture to archeology, from poetry to design for sculpture, to tapestries, printing, applied arts.
With the aim of exploring every aspect of his activity, in order to show plastically how and why the master from Urbino played such a central role in the history of Italian and world art.
in fields ranging from architecture to archeology, from poetry to design for sculpture, to tapestries, printing, applied arts.
With the aim of exploring every aspect of his activity, in order to show plastically how and why the master from Urbino played such a central role in the history of Italian and world art.
in fields ranging from architecture to archeology, from poetry to design for sculpture, to tapestries, printing, applied arts.
With the aim of exploring every aspect of his activity, in order to show plastically how and why the master from Urbino played such a central role in the history of Italian and world art.
If the Hermitage in St. Petersburg has retained its Holy Family, against the background of the conflict that arose between Russia and the West, also on the ground of culture after the invasion of Ukraine, the curators David Ekserdjian and Tom Henry were able to integrate the Raphaelite collection of the Gallery (nine key works including the sublime Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, the somber Pope Julius II or the delicate Madonna dei Rosa) with loans, sometimes unprecedented, obtained from all over the world.
Thus bringing together, in a single gallery, six different Madonnas by Raphael: more than enough to guarantee the announced success of an exhibition destined to remain open to the public from 9 April to 31 July.
Exhibition that follows Raphael's adventure step by step: from Urbino, where he was born in 1483, to Perugia,
where he absorbed the style of Perugino, up to the stop in Florence, among the indelible influences of Leonardo and Michelangelo, and finally the landing in Rome, where - under the patronage of popes and patrons - he found the definitive consecration.
Focused exclusively on him, the initiative - yet another great event born under the direction of Gabriele Finaldi, the Italian-British art historian called since 2015 at the helm of the prestigious London institution - also makes use of films and recreational tools to accompany visitors.
And it finds its sublimation in the final room, dedicated to portraiture: from the Self-portrait with a Friend, arrived from the Louvre, to the portrait of Bindo Altoviti, owned by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, or the oil one by Lorenzo de 'Medici,
sold by Christie's auction house in 2007 to a private collector for the equivalent of $ 37 million at the time.
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