Saturday 30 October at the Municipal Art Gallery of the Umbrian city the exhibition that focuses on the experiences of youth and the sources that inspired Raphael will be inaugurated
Raffaello Sanzio and Luca Signorelli vis a vis. In reality, the two great painters have never met but since Saturday 30 October they are symbolically in the same room. Raffaello with what Banner of the Holy Trinity (1499 circa), Signorelli with the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (1498) for the exhibition Young Raphael in Citt di Castello and his gaze hosted by the Municipal Art Gallery of Citt Castello (Perugia), which from its inauguration at 6pm on 30 October remains open until 9 January 2022.
The dialogue between the two works is at the heart of the exhibition. With the two-sided banner of the Holy Trinity by Raphael, considered among his first paintings, the only mobile work by the master remained in Umbria, preserved – like the work of Signorelli – by the Pinacoteca di City of Castello where the artist worked between the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century.
The exhibition, promoted by the Umbrian regional committee for Raphaelesque celebrations Look at Raphael, was approved by the National Committee for the celebration of 500 years after the death of Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) and enjoys a state public contribution provided by the Ministry of Culture. Curated by Marica Mercalli and Laura Teza, it wants to reconstruct the experiences that the very young painter could live in an environment full of stimuli and full of cultural past linked to Luca Signorelli’s stay in the city: richness of his very fast, extraordinary education.
The staging, which will become permanent, proposes the two works in a dedicated room and a new path of the Museum which from now on will be accessible from the original monumental entrance, introduced by a beautiful sixteenth-century portal overlooking the recovered Piazza delle tabacchine, offering the visitor the experience of the graffiti façade designed by Vasari and of walking in a real Italian Renaissance garden.
Among the other works by Raphael on display – which return to Citt di Castello for the first time on this occasion – also the large table with theCoronation of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, damaged in 1789 earthquake and since then dispersed in fragments, here reconstructed in its main pieces. Reservations are recommended to visit the exhibition: cultura@ilpoliedro.org, 075 8554202.
October 30, 2021 (change October 30, 2021 | 11:41)
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