In Genoa the exhibition Barocco Segreto
In Genoa the exhibition Barocco Segreto – Genoese art from private collections. On 24 June from 12 at Palazzo della Meridiana.
The Barocco Segreto exhibition in Genoa on Friday.
Event organized by Agnese Marengo and Anna Orlando will be exceptionally open for the celebration of the patron saint of Genoa: San Giovanna Battista from 12 to 19.
On the occasion of the choral celebration of the Genoa Baroque wheel by the museums, in parallel with the cheno exhibition events around the great exhibition of Palazzo Ducale,
and exactly thirty years after the historic Genoa in the Baroque Age exhibition at Palazzo Spinola and Palazzo Reale curated by Ezia Gavazza and Giovanna Rotondi Terminiello, the Amici di Palazzo della Meridiana Association presents Secret Baroque.
Genoese works from private collections, curated by Agnese Marengo and Anna Orlando and dedicated to Ezia Gavazza (1928-2019).
A journey into the more intimate side of the Baroque, to rediscover the atmosphere of the rooms of the ancient residences, of their rooms set up to intrigue and seduce or to gather in prayer.
From the galleries to the chapels of the palace passing with the imagination among the living rooms of the house to admire precious objects, whether they are for parades or for everyday use;
from the splendor of the silver to the white-blue of the majolica of vases and plates also created to amaze.
The exhibition itinerary unfolds in the five exhibition rooms on the first noble floor of Palazzo Grimaldi della Meridiana, a sixteenth-century residence and one of the 42 Palazzi dei Rolli, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006.
The free works are all from private collections and most of them have never been exhibited to the public before. Many unpublished absolute: never seen or publications in the scientific field.
Not only paintings, but also drawings, engravings, sculptures, majolica and silverware to celebrate with about fifty artifacts called to amaze the festival of the arts, to share the variety of the world and its illusions and certainties.
On display are the works of the main interpreters of that extraordinary artistic season, such as the pioneer Bernardo Strozzi, the eccentric Gio.
Benedetto Castiglione known as Grechetto, the great Valerio Castello, Domenico Piola and Gregorio De Ferrari, up to the proto-Rococo of the brothers Bartolomeo and Domenico Guidobono and many others.
A path, in a suggestive intertwining of the sacred and the profane, which develops between sculptures, refined works on paper, paintings and objects to arrive in a crescendo of emotions in the central hall with the large festive, scenographic and colorful canvases, to then return to immerse yourself in the spiritual pathos of the last room.
The exhibition is open to the public until Sunday 10 July 2022 with hours from Wednesday to Sunday and holidays h 12-19, closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Entrance ticket: € 10.00 (full), € 8.00 (reduced), € 4.00 (schools and children).