ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI – PALAZZO DUCALE - GENOA
from 16/11/2023 to 01/04/2024
Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman admitted to an art academy, the first recognized as an artist, the painter who chose to make her passion for art his reason for living is at the center of the exhibition of the Palazzo Ducale.
A model of tenacity and genius, courage and determination, Artemisia Gentileschi was marked by the suffering of her mother’s untimely death and a controversial relationship with her father. Victim of violence, she was forced to be the protagonist of a trial from which she emerged both winner and loser, deeply wounded in her soul.
In the course of the exhibition, special attention is paid to the troubled relationship with his father Orazio Gentileschi - an illustrious painter of the time, friend of Caravaggio and teacher of Artemisia - which then gave rise to a real rivalry. Several close comparisons between paintings of the same subject make it possible to understand how the artistic talent of the girl was able to overcome the language of her father. The two artists are also put in dialogue with the style of Caravaggio.
Between exciting family events, revolutionary artistic solutions, dramatic images and female triumphs, the exhibition – curated by Costantino D'Orazio – offers a faithful portrait of the complex personality of one of the most famous artists of all time, through more than 50 paintings of all time. European.
In her paintings, Artemisia Gentileschi teaches us how a gesture can contain the expressive force of the character and be the fulcrum of the opera scene. His paintings emerge, highlighted with strength and skilfully by effects of shadow and light, resolute gestures and looks full of pain, pride, courage, tenacity, anger.
Ignored for centuries, rediscovered about fifty years ago, the Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi is honored at the National Gallery in London until January 24, 2021. An extraordinary retrospective in the image of the painter.
A very nice exhibition!
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VILLA CROCCE - GENOA
permanent collection
The Villa Croce Museum, housed in a 19th century neo-classical style villa located on its own grounds, opened its doors in February 1985 and hosts an exhibition programme covering all year long research into contemporary artistic research.
In addition to exhibitions, the museum houses permanent collections of up to 4,000 works of art that were essentially Aniconic from the 1930s to the present day. The collection Cernuschi Ghiringhelli (wife of the Milanese painter and gallerist Gino Ghiringhelli.) includes, among others, works by Fontana, Licini, Manzoni and Reggiani is the core. Villa Croce also houses a specialized library of nearly 30,000 volumes.
Each year, temporary exhibitions are organized; the annual program is mainly focused on contemporary research, with incursions in the fields of music, cinema, theater and literature. These initiatives are also accompanied by historical exhibitions devoted to characters, movements and situations that have marked the evolution of artistic research.
A museum not to be missed!