On August 15th, free admission to the Gallerie d’Italia, the Intesa Sanpaolo museums in Milan, Vicenza and Naples
the Galleries of Italy, the museums of Intesa Sanpaolo a Milan, Vicenza and Naples, will remain exceptionally open on Sunday August 15 with free entry, proposing to those who choose to stay in the city a Ferragosto in the name of art. TO Milano the museum will be open from 9:30 every 19:30 with the exhibition Painting is back. Eighties, painting in Italy, an unprecedented look at Italian painting through a path created by Luca Massimo Barbero. More than forty years after those polymorphic and vital Eighties, the exhibition offers a first investigation of the protagonists of that decade, who provocatively understood painting as a happy and rapacious ability to paint the world with a new vitality and who, immediately, had international visibility and overwhelming fame.
The permanent collections will also be open to the public ‘From Canova to Boccioni’ e ‘Shipyard of the 900‘. ‘From Canova to Boccioni’ proposes a path that, starting from Neoclassicism, documented by Canova’s bas-reliefs, reaches the threshold of the twentieth century with Boccioni’s pre-Futurist canvases, passing through a century of Italian painting. The selection of works from the ‘Cantiere del’ 900 ‘, the project dedicated to the enhancement of artistic heritage of the 20th and 21st centuries from Intesa Sanpaolo, focuses on a selection of masterpieces from the 1950s and 1980s, with works by Fontana, Burri, Vedova, Afro, Dorazio, Schifano, Manzoni. Always at Gallerie d’Italia in Milan, on the day of Mid-August at 10:30 there will be a guided tour of the 19th and 20th century collections.
A Naples, the Galleries of Italy will be open to Mid-August from 10.00 to 20.00 with the exhibition Los Angeles (State of Mind), new chapter of the review curated by Luca Beatrice and dedicated to the great international cities that, at the end of the 20th century, changed the history of art. A visit to Zevallos Stigliano Palace it is also an opportunity to admire the absolute masterpiece of the collections Intesa Sanpaolo, the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula by Caravaggio, and magnificent examples of Neapolitan art from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century including the important nucleus of works by Vincenzo Gemito, ‘scugnizzo sculptor’ who unveils the famous portrait in the room dedicated to him della Zingara together with famous sculptures such as the Fiociniere.
A Vicenza, the Galleries of Palazzo Leoni Montanari will be open from hours 10.00 to 18.00. Available to the public Seeing the Invisible, a selection of seventy Russian icons from the collection Intesa Sanpaolo exhibited in a renewed permanent setting that leads the visitor to immerse themselves in Russian-Orthodox spirituality through a suggestion of images, sounds and scents. One room is dedicated to an interesting dialogue, until 3 July 2022, with the works of contemporary artist Valery Koshlyakov. Visitors will also be able to admire a selection of Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics and the 18th century Veneto collection, an authentic journey into 18th century Venice with paintings by Guardi, Longhi, Carlevarijs. Furthermore, the eighteenth-century sculptural group The Fall of the Rebel Angels, an amazing pyramid of sixty figures carved in a single piece of Carrara marble, made in the mid-eighteenth century by Agostino Fasolato, does not cease to amaze. Always at Vicenza museum the August 15 at 11.00 there is a (free) activity for families’Fairy tales in the Court: in the kingdom of dragons’, an animated story inspired by the mythical protagonists of the decorations of the baroque palace.