The idea of Philippe Costamagna, the director of the Palais Fesch, in Ajaccio, to give his summer exhibition the title of the film by Paolo Sorrentino released in 2013,
La grande bellezza
, invites you to visit it like a Roman fantasy: festivals and fireworks in Piazza Navona, shimmering and languid cardinals, young people disguised as sultanas, eunuchs or preachers...
The subject is a real theme in the history of art, however: to show Roman art from the first half of the 18th century, a period too quickly forgotten, less famous than the time of Bernini, what is called to go quickly the "baroque", and the emergence, around 1760, of a new classicism inspired by the antique.
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Napoleon's uncle, Cardinal Fesch, was the greatest collector of all time: the museum of Ajaccio keeps around a thousand paintings among the 16,000 works he had gathered in Rome, it is the perfect setting to revive this half-century of extravagances, fantasies and parties.
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