Masterpieces in Enamel and Ivory.
Pietro Bagatti
Valsecchi and the d'après Miniature
Bagatti Valsecchi Museum - Milan, Italy
24 November
2004 - 6 February 2005
The Bagatti Valsecchi
Museum, located in Milan's downtown area of Montenapoleone, is one of
Europe's most important historic house museums. The Bagatti family purchased the
16th century palazzo on Via Gesù in the mid 18th century, and continued to
enlarge it until the last remodelling phase--a precocious example of unified
esthetic in the NeoRenaissance style--undertaken by the Renaissance art
collectors Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi at the end of the 19th
century.
The exhibit Masterpieces in Enamel and
Ivory, curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Sergio Rebora with the
collaboration of Bernardo Falconi and Anna Maria Zuccotti, will reconstruct the
articulated panorama of nineteenth century miniatures and artists,
including the father of Fausto and Giuseppe, Pietro Bagatti Valsecchi,
a miniaturist well-known in his day. The exhibit represents one of the
initiatives with which the museum celebrates the tenth anniversary of its
opening to the public. The catalogue, in Italian, will be available from Silvana
Editoriale.
A reminder for scholars of the 19th
century: the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum web site contains research
resources, including an on-line database of artisans working in Lombardy from
the end of the 19th century to the outbreak of WWI, as well as reference pages
on the area of Montenapoleone, important during this crucial period in
Italy's history.
For more information about the
exhibit, the museum and its activities, please see our bi-lingual web site:
http://www.museobagattivalsecchi.org. To receive
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Thank you,
Star Meyer
Bagatti Valsecchi Museum - Milan,
Italy