The State Hermitage Museum in conjunction with the City Museum of Pavia spends most large-scale retrospective of the last century painting in Italy, including more than seventy works

State Hermitage Museum, November 19, 2011 - January 22, 2012
Armorial Hall of the Winter Palace

The Year of Italy in Russia and Russia in Italy in the Armorial Hall of the Winter Palace, an exhibition "Italian paintings of the XIX century. From Neoclassicism to Symbolism ", organized by the State Hermitage Museum in conjunction with the City Museum of Pavia. The exposition is the most extensive retrospective of the last century painting in Italy and includes more than seventy works, half of which comes from the collection Art Gallery of the XIX century the city's museums Pavia. In addition, the exhibit includes works from the Gallery of Modern Art in Florence, Milan, Turin, Genoa. Significance of the exhibition is difficult to overestimate, because the period is practically unknown to Russian viewers (in the Hermitage - a little more than sixty paintings by Italian artists Ottochento).

< div class = "imgcenter"> FRANCESCO HAYETS A secret denunciation. 1847-1848 Oil on canvas Source: hermitagemuseum.org

the example of the best examples of the XIX century painting exhibition shows the full range of styles and directions in which the Italian artists worked: Classicism, Romanticism, historicism, makkyayolli, symbolism.

The main features of Italian classicism were laid in the work of Antonio Canova. By type of sublimely idyllic paintings on mythological themes addressed Lombard painter Andrea Appiani, as exemplified by the painting "Juno worn when Graces." The same ancient canon of sublime harmony - in the paintings of "Paris" and "Hebe" Gaspare Landi. Eroica branch of Neo-Classicism is popular in his time painting "The Death of Caesar" Vincenzo Kamuchchini.

appeal to the episodes and heroes of national history, mostly already described in the literature, is characterized by for most of the paintings of the XIX century, beginning with Romanticism. The main artist in this direction - Francesco Hayets. In the film 'The reconciliation of Otto II and mother Adelaide of Burgundy, "he reproduced a significant but little-known event of Italian medieval history. In" Venus, playing with doves' embodied features of the famous ballerina Carlotta Chabert in "Secret denunciation" has shown Venetian, beautiful and brutal.

Vincenzo KAMUCHCHINI Death of Caesar Italy Oil on canvas Bologna Museum of Modern Art Source: hermitagemuseum.org

PHILIP PALITSTSI Girl on the cliff in Sorrento. 1871 Italy Oil on canvas International Balzan Foundation in Milan < br /> Source: hermitagemuseum.org

romantic artist willingly portrayed famous people, heroes, rebels in moments of glory, or fall. Examples of such works: "Galileo before the court Inquisition "Cristiano Banti's" Christopher Columbus on his return from America (Columbus in chains), "Lorenzo Delleani," Lord Byron in the Greek banks' Giacomo Trekura.

Romantics revived interest in the "junior "genre painting - image interiors of buildings and cityscapes (lead). The canvas" The church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice "by Ippolito Caffi experimenting with visual perception and lighting effects.

continued search for romantics at 1860 Tuscan makkyayoli Giovanni Fattoria, Silvestro Lega, Signorini Telemachus, Giuseppe abbot Odorado Borrani, Vincenzo Kabyanka. The artists have proposed a stylistic manner, replacing the traditional chiaroscuro contrasting spots ("MacKay"). In the new technique makkyayoli were genre scenes everyday life: "Singing stornello" and "The Betrothed, or bride and groom," Silvestro Leahy, "Rendezvous in the Forest" Telemachus Signorini. Landscape paintings' Rotunda bath Palmeri "brush and Giovanni Fattoria" View Castiglioncello "Abbot Giuseppe interesting because for its creation artists worked en plein air.

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Domenico Morelli Pompeian bath. 1861 Italy Oil on canvas International Balzan Foundation in Milan Source: hermitagemuseum.org

Gioacchino TOM The girls in the choir. 1878 Italy Oil on canvas International Balzan Foundation in Milan Source: hermitagemuseum.org

Trends symbolism pronounced in the triptych Giorgio Kinerka "mystery man": the artist avoids the clear characteristics of the characters, preferring to bewitch the audience esoteric symbols and the total magnetic the atmosphere.

In the last decades of the XIX century European artists experimenting with new means of expression. In Italy, Angelo Morbello develop separate smear technique (Divisionism), which is an example - the picture on the social theme of "For 80 centesimi ! ". Divizionistom was Giuseppe and Pelitstsa Volpedo yes, symbolically embodied the ideals of humanism high in" The Runaround ».

exhibition" Italian paintings of the XIX century. From Neoclassicism to Symbolism "is a response to greater exhibit, opened in March 2011 in Castello Viskonteo "Leonardeski from Foppa to Dzhampetrino: paintings from the Hermitage Museum and the City of Pavia," which was attended by twenty-two paintings from the Hermitage collection.

Curator from the State Hermitage Museum - Natalia Demina, researcher at the Department of Western European art from the Museum of City of Pavia - Suzanne Dzatti, director of the city's museums Pavia.

for the exhibition catalog was published in Russian scientific and Italian (publishing house "Skiri" Milan - Geneva), with articles Matstsokki Fernando, Professor, University of Milan, Francesca Porreko, keeper of the city's museums and Susannah Pavia Dzatti.

Source : hermitagemuseum.org