(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 13 - Reflections on time and life, on the nature that surrounds us and that conditions our existence, love, passion, marriage, death.
An exchange between museums starts with the arrival in Rome of "Ninfa epastore", a splendid work of the extreme maturity of Titian, loaned by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the small, dense exhibition that opens from 14 June to 18 September at the Borghese Gallery From Rome.
With four large canvases placed in dialogue with each other in the room where paintings from the Venetian school and Titian were already exhibited in the collection at the Roman museum.
"For us an exhibition dossier", explains the curator MariaGiovanna Sarti, "a small review that allowed us to put the works around some themes always present in the painter's production into dialogue, almost a red thread that accompanies him from his beginnings to the extremes of maturity ".
The exhibition, she emphasizes, was also an opportunity for a diagnostic study of some canvases and studies that will soon be published.
In the large room on the first floor of the opulent residence of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the focus of reflection starts from four large canvases: next to the Nymph and Shepherd who has just arrived from Vienna there are on one side Amor Sacro and AmorProfano and on the other Venus who blindfolds Amore, two large canvases by the Venetian artist to which is added, directly opposite the Nymph, a seventeenth-century copy of The Three Ages of Man, a masterpiece by Vecellio whose original is preserved in Edinburgh.
"The idea is that of an encounter that generates a dialogue", repeats Sarti passionately.
A comparison that tells of a way of understanding painting and at the same time opens a split on the Venetian sixteenth century with allegories that reflect on the meaning of life, of the world and of a nature that is never confined to a side role.
A reflection in which other works from the museum's collection also participate, including Adam and Eve by Marco Basaiti, two other Titian, Christ scourged and St. and a satyr).
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