A major exhibition in Bologna on Vittorio Corcos tracing his entire career

From Oct. 22, 2020 to Feb. 14, 2021, Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna is hosting a major exhibition on Vittorio Corcos (Livorno, 1859 - Florence, 1933), with more than forty major works to trace his entire career. Entitled Vittorio Corcos. Portraits and Dreams, is curated by Carlo Sisi and is divided into six sections that recount the presence of the Leghorn painter in the figurative cultural context from the second half of the 19th century to the first thirty years of the following century.

Corcos, a pupil of Domenico Morelli and friend of De Nittis whose Paris salon he was a frequent visitor to, is one of the most appreciated interpreters of the sentiments and customs of the Belle époque, as well as one of the greatest portrait painters of the time, who was distinguished by his clean style, characterized by the delicacy of the stroke, the almost photographic meticulousness in the depiction of objects and luxurious fabrics, but also by the psychological depth of the gazes that gives the subjects a mysterious magnetism. For this reason the women painted by Corcos, one of his favorite subjects, were called “creatures that have in them something of the ghost and the flower.”

Among the portraits in the Palazzo Pallavicini itinerary is a portrait of soprano and film actress Lina Cavalieri (whom Gabriele D’Annunzio considered “the highest testimony of Venus on earth”), and a painting entitled Dreams, which as a result of great public and critical attention was immediately acquired by the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. This painting features one of the most intriguing and at the same time talked-about female figures of her time: a woman with a pensive and introverted gaze, considered by critics of the time to be too outspoken for her bold and unconventional pose. Also on display will be landscapes that are part of her production set in the light of the Leghorn coast: these are works that reveal her closeness to the poetics of naturalism and genre painting.

The selected works come from the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, the Uffizi Galleries, the Gallery of Modern Art in Milan, the Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum and the Goldoni Art Gallery in Livorno, the Livorno Foundation, the Società of Fine Arts and the Matteucci Institute in Viareggio, the Studio d’Arte dell’800 in Livorno and the Quadreria dell’Ottocento in Milan, the Accademia di Belle Arti and the Sistema Museale d’Ateneo of the University of Bologna, the Franco Maria Ricci Collection and other private collections.

Opening hours: Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, December 24 and 25. Ticket office closes 1 hour earlier (7 p.m. last admission). Special openings from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. (7 p.m. last admission): Nov. 1, 2020; Dec. 7, 8, 21, 22, 26, 28, 29, 30, 2020; Dec. 31, 2020 (11 a.m. until 5 p.m. last admission 4 p.m.); Jan. 1, 2021 (2 p.m. until 8 p.m. last admission 7 p.m.); Jan. 4, 5, 6, 2021; Jan. 23, 2020 from 11 a.m. to midnight (last admission 11 p.m.).

Tickets: Full € 13, Reduced € 11 (ages 6 to 18 and under, over 65 with ID, students up to 26 and under with ID, military with ID, tour guides with ID, practicing journalists and publicists with ID who are regularly registered with theOrder, disabled companions in the company of the disabled person, ICOM members with card, ITALO ticket having as destination/origin Bologna with previous/next date of maximum 3 days), groups of at least 10 people € 10 (1 free companion), school groups € 5 (2 free companions for each class), Bologna Welcome and Bologna Card Cultura holders € 10, University Thursdays (with card) € 9. Free for children under 6, disabled with certificate. Family ticket with children aged 6 to 18 and under: Parent € 10, Minors aged 6 to 18 and under € 8. Open ticket with reservation without time and date restrictions valid until the end of the exhibition: € 16.

Image: Vittorio Corcos, Dreams (1896; oil on canvas, 161 x 135 cm; Rome, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art)

A major exhibition in Bologna on Vittorio Corcos tracing his entire career

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