Baroque architect Francesco Borromini's drawings at the Vatican Apostolic Library and Russian avant-garde art from Primitivism to Suprematism in Bologna are among the masterworks on display at exhibits across Italy opening this weekend.
Masterpieces of graphic design are also at the center of a
show in Vimercate, near Milan.
ROME - Francesco Borromini's drawings that are part of the
Vatican Apostolic Library's collection are on show through
January 5 at the Vatican Pinacoteca.
A total of 17 masterworks, including one from the private
collection of architect Paolo Portoghese, are exhibited as part
of celebrations to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the
death of the great architect and Baroque master.
The show is called 'Francesco Borromini. I disegni della
Biblioteca Vaticana' (Francesco Borromini. The drawings of the
Vatican Library') and vies to highlight the master's passion for
graphic expression.
Borromini worked over four decades in Rome on the city's most
important construction projects alongside Carlo Maderno and Gian
Lorenzo Bernini, at the service of popes including Alexander VII
and Innocent X (1644-1655) with whom he changed the
architectural landscape of the Eternal City.
Borromini had an extraordinary ability in drawing and would
call his graphic work "my children", the exhibit's curators
said.
The selection on show includes some of his most famous
projects such as the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza
Navona, the Pamhilj palace and the renovation of the Basilica
Saint Paul Outside the Walls.
BOLOGNA - 'Revolutija' is an exhibit at Bologna's Museum of
Modern Art (MaMbo) running through May 13.
It showcases 70 masterworks from the collection of the State
Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
Nathan Altman, Natalia Goncharova, Kazimir Malevich, Wassily
Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Valentin Serov, Alexandr Rodchenko are
among artists whose work is on display to highlight the
modernity of Russia's cultural movements at the start of the
20th century - from Primitivism to Cubo-futurism and
Suprematism.
VIMERCATE (MILAN) - The Must Museum starting on December 16
through March 11 next year will host an exhibit called 'Il Segno
del '900. Da Cezanne a Picasso, da Kandinskij a Fontana. Opere
grafiche' (The sign of the 1900s. From Cezanne to Picasso, from
Kandinskij to Fontana. Graphic work).
A total of 85 graphic designs by leading European artists
from the end of the 19th century through the post-WWII phase
will be on display to highlight the importance of prints for the
experimentation of new techniques and changes in style.
Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Wassily
Kandinskij, Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti and Lucio
Fontana are among artists whose work will be on display.
photo: a painting in the Revolutija show
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