subject: Rimini Houses Caravaggio And Impressionist's Masterpieces [print this page] Four centuries has passed since Caravaggio's death. Rimini wants to celebrate it by organizing a great international event: "Caravaggio and Other Seventeenth-century Painters: Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford". The exhibition will take place until 27 March 2011 and it shows a selection of works from the prestigious Connecticut Museum, which is one of the most important and ancient museums of the United States, boasting a large collection of masterpieces, realized by the most renowned european sixteenth and seventeenth-century masters.
During the exhibition, placed at the fifteenth-century Castel Sismondo, the paint "Ecstasy of the Saint Francis" will be shown among the others, as the first example of holy painting realized by the milanese artist. The exhibition shows also a selection of masterpieces by painters that took their inspiration by Caravaggio: Cigoli, Morazzone, Gentileschi, Strozzi, Saraceni in Italy. The Spanish painters will be rappresented by a work of Zurbarn: Saint Serafione" (1628), which reveals the last link between sculpture and painting in the spanish art of the seventeenth-century. Ribera and Le Sueur will be rappresenting France and the Flemish and Netherlandish School with Sweerts, Van Dyck and Hals, the most important portrait painter of the first half of the seventeenth century.
During the second half of 1800's, in the ambit of the artistic life in Paris, Avant-garde and Classicism intertwine and "collide". On one hand the French "Salon", exhibition born in 1667, which displays paintings and sculptures of few French artists covered by specific and strict traditional rules. On the other side, the impressionist current, which succeeds in the "Salon", thanks to a reform that create an immediate conflict with the previous artist current . The exhibition "Paris. The wonderful years. Impressionism against Salon" retraces the artistic production of the Paris Salon and, in parallel, the French impressionists. You can observe the works of Ingres, Bonnat, Bouguereau, Gerome, Couture, and other artists who will be accompanied to the most famous exponents of Impressionism including CVan Gogh, Degas, Renoir, Gaugin, Monet.Some of these magnificent works have already been observed during the months of the previous exhibitions.
The exhibition "Caravaggio and Impressionismo" has been organized by Marco Goldin, art-director of "Linea d'Ombra" and it has been patronized by the Cassa di Risparmio di Rimini.
Exhibition Opening Hours: Monday- Friday: 9.00 am -7.00 pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday 9.00 am - 8.00 pm 1 January 2011: 10.00 am - 8.00 pm
