(ANSA) – MILAN, 18 NOV – One hundred and thirty works from Italy and all over the world to tell the experience of the Grand Tour, when our country, between the end of the seventeenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century, was an obligatory stop of intellectuals, artists and aristocrats who made their training journey. The exhibition that will be held from 19 November to 27 March 2022 at the Gallerie d’Italia in Piazza Scala in Milan, the Intesa Sanpaolo museum, is entitled ‘Grand Tour. Dream of Italy from Venice to Pompeii’.
The exhibition – created under the high patronage of the Presidency of the Republic and in partnership with the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg – tells of an Italy of poignant beauty, with its cities and Mediterranean landscapes, that the artists have portrayed almost as a suspended place, the frontier of ancient myth, of stratification of memory and knowledge. The main destination of the Grand Tour was certainly Rome but the rediscovery of the two cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried by the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, made Naples the other essential destination of this educational and training trip.
It is no coincidence that the symbolic work of the exhibition according to Fernando Mazzocca, curator Stefano Grandesso and Francesco Leone together, comes from Herculaneum. “The seated bronze Mercury that was discovered in Herculaneum in the villa of the Papyri, – he explains – is the first great discovery in a place that still today gives us many masterpieces. The story of the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum is linked to the Grand Tour and is very well documented on display “.
Works by Canaletto, Panini, Joli, Lusieri, but also Hubert Robert, More, Wilson, Volaire, and Batoni, one of the greatest portrait painters of all time, are exhibited, as well as masterpieces from all over the world also from the collections of the Queen of England. “Another step forward in the commitment that Intesa Sanpaolo has been implementing for years by investing and promoting culture in Italy – comments the Minister of Culture Franceschini -. Intesa Sanpaolo has indicated a path that is part of a tradition, that of Foundations, which has been and is very important in our country “. (HANDLE).
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