Posts Tagged ‘scuderie del quirinale’

The Risorgimento at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome

Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - October 12th, 2010

Till Jenaury 16th at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, will take place an exhibition to celebrate the 150th year from the first Italian Unit. The exhibition is called “1861, the Risorgimento Painters” and it has been set up to show to the public how the Italian art understood the events that defined, between 1859 and 1861, the modern Italian geopolitical structure.

The Scuderie del Quirinale will exhibit the artworks of Francesco Hayez, Giuseppe Molteni, Domenico e Girolamo Induno, Eleuterio Pagliano, Federico Faruffini, Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Odoardo Borrani, Michele Cammarano and Giuseppe Sciuti.

Through the artworks of these artist the exhibition celebrating the Italian Unit wants to give to its visitors an epic and an empathetic tell instead of a commemorative and a monumental one. Here you can find the famed “The Cernaia Battle” by Girolamo Induno, in which you can get a glimpse of the identification of an artist who fight in that battle. More epic and less participative the Fattori artworks who has been describe as the Italian painting’s Tolstoj. (more…)

Caravaggio’s exhibition: just another two weeks in Rome

Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - June 3rd, 2010

Harry up! There are other two weeks of time left to the end of Caravaggio, the four hundred year anniversary of death celebration. The exhibition is taking place at the Scuderie del Quirinale.

The exhibition dedicated to Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio, will end on June 13th. Claudio Strinati, Polo Museale di Roma director and exhibition’s creator, chooses for Caravaggio’s celebration to present to the roman viewers a really strict selection of ensured original works instead of an anthological selection.

What Strinati purposes to the viewer is not only a classic exhibition based on a chronological order. What drives you through Caravaggio’s works is an emotional order, made by connection and idealistic drops processed without any coherence loss. (more…)