Fate and destiny in art from antiquity to the present day: an exhibition in Mantua with works by Klimt, Wildt and many others

On September 8, 2018, the exhibition“Fate and Destiny. Between Myth and Contemporaneity,” which will close on January 6, 2019.

About seventy works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphics and mosaics, divided into ten sections, will analyze the theme of fate and destiny from antiquity to the present day.
The masterpieces will come from the art collections of the Fondazione Cariplo and prestigious museum institutions such as the Complesso Museale Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, the Museo della Città - Palazzo San Sebastiano in Mantua, the Museo Civico di Palazzo Te, the MAR - Museo d’Arte della città of Ravenna, the Oriani House Foundation of Ravenna, the Museum of Modern Art of Gazoldo degli Ippoliti in Mantua, the Civic Museums of Forli, the Civic Museum of Crema and the Cremasque, as well as from private collections.

Among the works on display are the Sphinx from the Museum of San Sebastiano in Mantua, the Female Portrait with Mask attributed to 18th-century painter Charles-Antoine Coypel, Jules Jean-Baptiste Dehaussy’s The Cartomancer, Giovanni Maria Benzoni ’s Eve and Vincenzo Gemito’s Study for a Funeral Monument, Adolfo Wildt’s The Pure in the Portfolio, Domenico Fetti’s The Parable of Hidden Treasure, Dream and Reality and Angelo Morbelli’s Triptych of Life. Plus The Sleeping Cupid from the collection of Vespasiano Gonzaga in Sabbioneta, Klimt ’s Nude of a Woman, and many others.

Curated by Renata Casarin, deputy director of the Complesso Museale Palazzo Ducale Mantova, and Lucia Molino, Fondazione Cariplo Collection manager, in collaboration with Michela Zurla, the exhibition will be set up in theAppartamento della Rustica and is promoted by the Fondazione Cariplo, Fondazione Comunità Mantovana and the Complesso Museale Palazzo Ducale, in collaboration with the Municipality of Mantova. It will also be opened in conjunction with the XXII edition of Festivaletteratura Mantova.

For info: www.mantovaducale.beniculturali.it

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Free entrance from the Giardino dei Semplici.

Image: 16th-century sculptor, Sleeping Cupid (Second half of the 16th century; Marble, 20 x 76 x 43 cm; Mantua, City Museum-Palazzo San Sebastiano)

Fate and destiny in art from antiquity to the present day: an exhibition in Mantua with works by Klimt, Wildt and many others

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