| Running
Exhibition till May 18th 2008
"Sebastiano
Del Piombo. Venezia 1485 - 1547"
PALAZZO VENEZIA, ROMA
Sebastiano
Luciani, known as "del Piombo" - who famously argued
with Michelangelo regarding the execution of the Sistine Chapel’s
decorations - is a Renaissance painter from Venice who has always
been underrated by critics. Given that the Venetian Sebastiano
Del Piombo was the only painter capable of being a counterpoint
to Raphael’s poetics in the 16th century, this assessment
is unjust. The artist spent much of his artistically more mature
period in Rome and now the city has put on the first retrospective
dedicated to him featuring large canvases, life-size portraits,
paintings on wood and preparatory sketches. The show tracks Del
Piombo’s artistic development, from the warm colourful work
of his beginnings to the darker atmospheres of the later period. |
| Running
Exhibition till January 13th 2008
"Francesco
Cozza 1605-1682. A Calabrian artist in Rome - between classicism
and baroque"
PALAZZO VENEZIA, ROMA
Francesco
Cozza was born in Calabria but trained and worked in Rome and
Naples. He left an important mark on 17th century painting. A
follower of Domenichino, he was a member of the Accademia di San
Luca and the Congregazione dei Virtuosi del Pantheon in Rome,
and executed the frescoes in the Collegio Innocenziano in Palazzo
Pamphili in Piazza Navona. The show features 22 works by Cozza,
among which the "Madonna del Riscatto", "Ritrovamento
di Mosè" and "Madonna col Bambino tra i Santi
Gioacchino e Anna" |
| Running
Exhibition till May 25th 2005
"EMILIO
GRECO"
PALAZZO VENEZIA, ROMA
After
ten years from Emilio Greco's death (1913-1995), a retrospective
counting 80 sculptures (terracotta, cement works and big bronzes)
has been set up at Palazzo Venezia. Shortly his Catalogo Ragionato
delle Opere will be published. The exhibition, curated by Carlo
Pirovano (helped by a scientific committee formed by Claudio Strinati,
Francesco Buranelli, Maurizio Calvesi, Luciano Caramel, Elisabetta
Cristallini, Antonella Greco, Anna Imponente, Simonetta Lux, Bruno
Mantura, Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Livia Velani,) has been
set up with a chronological order as from the fourties and is
devided in different themes : from the series Omini and Lottatori,
to the period devoted to Bagnanti belonging to the Fifties-Sixties,
to the series of sacred works and monuments, the portraits and
the big statues of his last years . In the second half of the
XX century Italian panorama, Emilio Greco sculpture standed out
for its expressive figurativity which has distinct references
to contemporary sculptors such as Martini, Marini, Moore and Pevsner,
and to the plastic art of manieristic, baroque and antique origin.
In 1956 he was awarded a prize at Biennale in Venice which was
his first official acknowledgement. Since then he got internationally
famous, infact his works are present in the most important international
Institutions all over the world such as Tate Gallery in London,
Ermitage in St Petersburg, Puskin in Moscow, Open-Air Museum in
Hakone, American museums, Musei Vaticani, Gallerie d'Arte Moderna
in Rome, Venice, Milan, Florence. Among his most important works
are to be mentioned the airplane-monument devoted to Pinocchio,
the gothic cathedral doors (Orvieto) , the Pope burial memorial
(Giovanni XXIII) in San Pietro of which drafts are shown at the
exhibition. Greco has been particularly keen on the feminine figure,
in fact we can admire a series paintings dedicated to women like
the different version of Anna, which cover a period that goes
from 1954 to 1962 and the series dedicated to feminine heads of
1967 : Micaela, Patricia, Nadine e Maria Baldassarre. |
ROME
EXHIBITIONS AT PALAZZO VENEZIA