Pesaro. Civic Museums of Palazzo Mosca, 3 paintings lent by the municipal administration for the Senigallia exhibition ‘Views on the Nineteenth Century. Italian art in the Marche collections’.
Pesaro 2024’s relations with the rest of the Marche and Italy also pass through the loans of works of art which strengthen the dialogue between cultural institutions and fuel the scientific debate.
For this reason, 3 paintings destined to be admired in Senigallia on the occasion of the ‘Views on the Nineteenth Century’ exhibition are leaving today (Thursday 20 June), from the storage rooms of the Civic Museums of Palazzo Mosca. Italian art in the Marche collections’ set up at Palazzetto Baviera which intends to retrace the variety of languages and stylistic experiments that characterized nineteenth-century Italy from Romanticism to the discovery of the landscape. The exhibition opens on June 29th and will be open to visitors until November 3rd, thus enriching the cultural offer spread across the Marche region as is in the spirit of Pesaro 2024.
Part of the Galluppi and Vinciguerra collections, the works were selected because they were in line with the exhibition itinerary which aims to compare the noble production of figure painting with the revolution of landscape painting and with portraits of the Macchiaioli style, from the setting paintings historical and romantic portraits, to the more experimental and anti-academic tendencies. On the other hand, it is a precious opportunity to make artefacts visible to the public that are usually not usable because they are stored in storage.
The paintings on loan are: Raffaello Sernesi (Florence 1838 – Bolzano 1866) attr, Seascape, oil on canvas, 1864-1866, 43×36 cm, from the Galluppi collection; Giacomo Favretto (Venice, 1849 – 1887), Preparatory sketch, oil on canvas, sec. XIX, 40.8×43.5 cm (with frame) from the Vinciguerra collection; Silvestro Lega (Modigliana, 1826 – Florence, 1895), Sketch, oil on panel, sec. XIX, 39×31.7 cm (with frame) from the Vinciguerra collection.
