(by Nicoletta Castagni).
Venice in all its splendour,
immortalized by some of the most famous landscape painters
including Van Vittel, Canaletto, Bellotto, Guardi and Caffi will
be in Brescia, while in Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza) a
masterpiece by Jacopo Dal Ponte (also known as 'Il Bassano')
will be back, having re-emerged on the antiquities market only
in recent years.
These are the most interesting exhibitions this weekend,
along with one in Milan that showcases the Uffizi in a 'virtual
version'.
BRESCIA - The most beautiful and famous views of Venice by
some of the most accomplished masters of the genre such as
Canaletto, Belloto, Guardi and Caffi will be exhibited from
January 23 until June 12 at Palazzo Martinengo.
About one hundred masterpieces from between the XVIII and
the XIX centuries on loan from prestigious collections will tell
of the enchantment the city on the lagoon holds which, more than
any other, has represented an unsurpassable myth in the
collective imagination.
Under the title 'The Splendour of Venice: Canaletto,
Bellotto, Guardi and the Nineteenth-Century Vedutisti', the
exhibition covers two hundred years of history in painting and
begins with the work of the Dutch Gaspar Van Wittel, the first
of the 'Vedutisti', but also looks at the extraordinary talent
of Canaletto alongside that his father Bernardo Canal and his
nephew Bernardo Bellotto.
A great deal of space is also given to the works of
Francesco Guardi, who transformed the seductive beauty of Venice
into a vague, remote and almost alienating location, and the
nineteenth-century paintings of Ippolito Caffi, for whose works
an entire section is set aside.
BASSANO DEL GRAPPA (VICENZA) - 'The Magnificent Warrior' is
a show that has brought back to the public eye a work by Jacopo
Dal Ponte, also known as 'Il Bassano', to the Civici Musei of
Bassano del Grappa. The well-known 'Portrait of an Armed Man'
has been lent free of charge to the city museums after the
painting was recently found to have likely been by the artist.
Over time, the work had been attributed to Veronese and to
Pordenone, and had been put on auction as such. Art historians
from the University of Verona instead picked up on the
similarity between the 'magnificent warrior' now exhibited and
the figure in a painting held in the Getty Museum, leading to
the attribution of it to Jacopo Bassano. The masterpiece is in
the 'Sala dei Bassano' of the museum, in which the 27 most
important portraits made by the family of painters active
throughout most of the sixteenth century.
MILAN - The Uffizi has come in a virtual form to the
Fabbrica del Vapore in an exhibition that will run through March
10.
Entitled 'Uffizi Virtual Experience: From Giotto to
Caravaggio', the interactive exhibition on the famous Florentine
museum was created to valorize cultural and artistic heritage in
an innovative, compelling manner.
This was achieved thanks to over 1,150 extremely
high-resolution images, immersive multi-projections and enabling
technology.
The first section has immersive multi-projections; the
second on frontal didactics and the third is set up with
interactive instruments, in which visitors can explore all the
digitized works.
Didactic activities such as art lessons, readings based on
the works, group workshops and theme-based routes will be held
as part of the exhibition for elementary, middle and high
schools.
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