March 8 at Palazzo Spinola is under the banner of Magdalene Doria. With gift for the ladies

A guided tour to learn about the furnishings of Maddalena Doria Spinola, the noblewoman who inherited Palazzo Spinola in 1732: this is the initiative that the National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola in Genoa is dedicating to Women’s Day 2018. The appointment is March 8 at 3 p.m.: National Civil Service volunteers will take visitors through the salons where Maddalena Doria intervened by commissioning a total renovation of frescoes and decorations. In particular, the visit will focus on theAmore e Psiche fresco by Sebastiano Galeotti (Florence, 1675 - Mondovì, 1741) and especially on the Venus, by the same author: in her hand, the goddess of beauty has roses, and each lady who participates in the visit will receive a gift of a paper flower handmade by the same volunteers.

Instead, at 5 p.m., the first meeting of the “Silver Genoa” cycle will be presented, dedicated to the Gallery’s new acquisition: the 17th-century silver plaque with a relief depiction of Genoa as seen from the sea. The first meeting (precisely on March 8 at 5 p.m.) will be with art historian Franco Boggero, who will give a lecture entitled Vita da fravego. German and Flemish silversmiths in early 17th-century Genoa: he will discuss the colony of Flemish silversmiths active in early 17th-century Genoa, as attested by a number of silverware masterpieces preserved in Palazzo Spinola, including the silverware with Columbian subjects by Matthias Melijn and Giovanni Aelbosca Belga in Palazzo Spinola, as well as by documents.It will also discuss the difficulties that “forseti” faced in getting accepted by theArte dei fraveghi, the guild of Genoese silversmiths that had strict rules for the defense of its activities (but also ingenious ways around them and sympathetic institutions such as the corporative subsidy to help the wife or daughter of a silversmith also “outsider” in difficulty, and which the declining family of Arrigo Fiammingo actually benefited from).

All information can be found on the Gallery’s website(www.palazzospinola.beniculturali.it) or on the Genoese museum’s Facebook page and Twitter account.

Pictured: the Venus of Sebastiano Galeotti.

March 8 at Palazzo Spinola is under the banner of Magdalene Doria. With gift for the ladies

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