In the center of Rovigo, the Renaissance Palazzo Roverella preserves like a treasure chest from 23 February until 30 June the heart of Paris at the end of the 19th century, an extraordinary concentration of innovation and education, an epochal transition for the history of art and beyond.
"It is referred to as Belle Epoque only in retaliation after the First World War, in reality a period of social upheavals", explains Francesco Parisi.
Dominating that metropolis was the nest of streets like woven straw of Montmartre, where Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec spent the most intense and destructive years of his short life.
Now the multifaceted creativity of this artist, who passed away at just 37 years of age, marked by a serious genetic disease, overwhelmed by alcoholism and passions, comes back to life in a major exhibition which not only recounts his various aspects, but immerses them in the reality from which they were absolutely inspired. originality overcoming the limit that sees him consigned to history as a simple, albeit brilliant and absolutely mythical, creator of posters.
In the over 200 works collected at Palazzo Roverella in a unique study, there is not only him, there are his great artists, friends of him and those who inspired him.
The exhibition is curated by Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond, Francesco Parisi and Fanny Girard - who directs the museum dedicated to the artist in Albi - with the collaboration of Nicholas Zmelty.
Very important is the unpublished section dedicated to the French artistic movement Les Arts Incohérents, which presents absolutely unpublished works because they were thought lost and were found in 2018 in the cellar of a descendant of the artists and are exhibited here for the first time.
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