Time.news – LItaly restarts in the name of the Supreme Poet. “The celebrations of the seven hundred years since Dante’s death have become a moment of national pride and intersect with the country’s desire to restart, to get out of the pandemic, to get closer to culture, to have Italy as we have known it over time, ”he noted the minister of culture, Dario Franceschini, at the inauguration of the exhibition entitled “The Triptych of the Centenary” dedicated to Leonardo, Raffaello and Dante which opened at the Accademia dei Lincei, in Rome.
The exhibition
The exhibition offers a review of the taste and aesthetics that presided over the celebrations of the centenaries of Leonardo (1919), Raphael (1920) and Dante (1921). Those were the years in which the country, released from the Great War, needed to reconstruct its own national identity by appealing also to a glorious past not only of beauty, but of ingenuity and ethics and that was able, however, to look to the future with a spirit of innovation and change.
The celebrations were not only an opportunity, as in the present day, to deepen studies and research but sources of inspiration for the artists of the avant-garde and not, and involved every area of human making reaching the whole population through postcards, objects, furniture, architecture, magazine and newspaper covers and paving the way for new styles and trends that incorporated and reused the lessons of the greats of the past who were celebrating themselves.
A century later
“The program of initiatives carried out by the Accademia dei Lincei, which joins those organized by the Dante’s Committee, is extraordinary. The exhibition “, continued the minister,” is fascinating because it allows us to go and rediscover and review what happened a century ago during the celebrations of Leonardo, Raphael and Dante in 1919, 1920 and 1921 “.
“The pandemic – underlined Franceschini – was a moment of rupture: we are at the beginning of a new period and none of us know if what we have behind us will close with a parenthesis and everything will return as before or vice versa, as happened for wars, it will leave profound changes. Certainly it leaves – he concluded – a great desire to start again and this exhibition fully enters this climate of restart “.
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