"Il Guercino Found. When the war stops Love"
by
Federica Gasparrini and Maurizio Marini
Rome, March 22 / June 12, 2011
PRESS CONFERENCE
Sala Paolina
National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at 18.30, the Special Division for Historic, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological and the Museums of the City of Rome, directed by Ross Vodret, Dionysos and Sphaerica Art Fund, opened the exhibition "Il Guercino Found
When Love stops the war."
The event is sponsored by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage, the Council Presidency Regionale del Lazio, e dall'Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali del Comune di Roma.
In mostra fino al 12 giugno 2011, l'opera inedita del Guercino dal titolo, " Marte Furibondo Ritenuto da un Amorino "; questo grande quadro, siglato e documentato, è offerto allo studio e alla pubblica fruizione, nella sede che è apparsa la più idonea per esprimere le sue valenze espressive e concettuali, appunto il museo romano di Castel Sant'Angelo.
Disperso nei meandri del collezionismo internazionale e nel disinteresse per l'arte del Seicento, viene svelato al pubblico all'interno di una struttura di allestimento che segue il movimento della conchiglia di Venere, Context and returns a visual narrative in the making, such as Mars, which outlawed war, moves to the amorous.
Il Guercino, nickname was never more wrong, is among the painters of the seventeenth century, the Baroque Age, one of the leaders of this century that extolled the maximum values \u200b\u200bof the senses: from painting to music. Guercino, alias Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Cento Ferrara, 1591 - Bologna, 1666), like Guido Reni, Lanfranco and Domenichino, is among the leading exponents of the "Scuola Bolognese" conceived as the axis of the renewal of contemporary painting from time impantanatasi stagnant swamp in imitation of the style of Michelangelo and Raphael, pure models now emptied of all content.
On the one hand the phenomenon and dramatic chiaroscuro of Caravaggio painting of the second Nature, the other as Painting Idea of \u200b\u200bLudovico, Agostino, and above all, Annibale Carracci and his disciples, to give to the Baroque, the new "facies" .
Il Guercino is among those moved by the chiaroscuro of the great Ferrarese Dosso Dossi, mold you into forms and colors with which selected by fellow countryman Pope Gregory XV, 1621 to 1623, when the pope dies, the soul altars Guercino and wall surfaces of Rome, the famous Casino Boncompagni Ludovisi, known as the Aurora "from the picture that the artist performs in competition perfect with the same subject by Reni fresco in Palazzo Rospigliosi.
The Mars found, however, relevant to a more mature phase, remaining in his studio in Bologna until the end.
Nevertheless, the message is imprinted by Guercino in complete perfection.
The big armed figure of the god of war, against a background of sky obscured by the smoke of powder exploded.
However, the powerful body, enhanced by the luster of the breast and thighs of steel, is moving dynamically into an invisible Venus. So that the background of an ideal Castel Sant'Angelo a Cupid strives to destroy a cannon, a weapon of war and death to be banished.
Organization Sphaerica
Catalog De Luca Editore (Rome)
Info
CASTEL SANT'ANGELO
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00186 - Rome
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