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From july 12th to 23rd a 10 days of cinema will take place at Villa de’ Medici Gardens. The cinefestival will be offered by l’Académie de France à Rome and it will be called Étoiles Mystérieuses: it wants to celebrate two wonderful actress, Delphine Seyrig e Claudia Cardinale, through Resnais, Monicelli,Truffault and Zurlini films.
The screenings will take place in a historical garden. As the legend says, in these gardens Messalina, the roman emperor Claudio’s wife, had been killed and her ghost still inhabits this place. At that time the gardens was called Horti Lucilliani.
In 1564 Villa de’ Medici was only a little house with a little vineyard of the Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi. This modest possession was purchased by the Giovanni Ricci di Montepulciano nephews. They committed the compound enlargement to Nanni Lippi, then to his son Annibale: someone says that Michelangelo works here too.
In 1576 the Villa was purchased by Ferdinando de’Medici. He accomplished the artworks. He committed the artifact to Bartolomeo Ammanati, who completed the gardens, burying a Roman Temple devoted to Fortuna, building the Parnaso panoramic view point and establishing an open air sculpture museum with the excavations findings.
In 1737 Villa de’ Medici was acquired by Lorenas as the Tuscany Grand Duchy. They gathered together in Florence all the Medicean collections: the gardens were deprived of a lot of sculptures as the Loggia dei Lanzi’s ones, the Venere Medicea and the Vaso Medici. These sculptures are at Uffizi Museum in Florence today.
In 1803 Napoleon transferred the Académie de France à Rome at Villa de’Medici. Among the others, two great directors of the Académie were Ingres e Balthus. From that time Villa de’ Medici gave hospitality to the Prix de Rome winners.
The Étoiles Mystérieuses festival is an unique occasion to vist an historical wonderful place. Remarkable are the “silva” (the latin name for wood) and the Niobidi group, representing Tanalo’s daughter and her sons. The garden plan is the same of the Medicean age with the Parnaso, the terraces and the flowerbeds plan.
Entry 5 Euro.
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[...] Villa Medici, the French School of Fine Art in Rome, presents an exhibition, lasting till the end of September, dedicated to the visitor experience’s enrichment: he will be driven along a tour made of heterogeneous artworks by Ellsworth Kelly and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Kelly, still living, took care about the exhibition management of his unpublished artworks and about the ones of the ex school headmaster Ingres, with the help of Éric de Chassey, the today school headmaster. The exhibition wants to show the tension that ties together a figurative and pedantic production with an abstract one. Kelli’s and Chassey’s original idea was to put the viewer in the critical point of the visual contemplation, where similarities and superimpositions die to let the universal true outcropping as a truth feeling. The viewer along the Villa Medici’s tour will rebound from an artwork to another without comprehension. Reason’s faculty will be astonished between Ingres and Kelly; the heart will be satisfy by his artistic perception. [...]