In Urbino the impossible exhibition bringing together all of Raphael's masterpieces. In 1:1 reproductions

From July 25 to November 1, 2020, the Raphael College in Urbino will host An Impossible Exhibition to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Urbino artist’s death. Forty-five of Raphael’s paintings, including the fresco of The School of Athens, will be brought together, reproduced on a 1:1 scale: visitors will thus have the opportunity to admire masterpieces scattered in seventeen different countries and in the world’s major museums, from the Uffizi to the Vatican Museums, from the Pinacoteca di Brera to the Galleria Borghese, from the Louvre to the Prado to the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and the National Gallery in Washington, DC, in a single exhibition.

The aim of the exhibition curated by Renato Parascandolo and the Marche Region is to appeal to young people and those who do not usually attend museums and exhibitions, allowing a wider audience to approach one of the greatest artists in art history, Raphael Sanzio. This is done through reproductions of his masterpieces: the dissemination of the reproductions is meant in this case to be an invitation to discover the works of art, without downplaying the sacredness of the original.

Among the reunited reproductions are the Saint Sebastian, the Three Graces from the Musée Condé, the Knight’s Dream from the National Gallery in London, the Madonna Conestabile from the Hermitage, the Lady with the Unicorn from the Borghese Gallery, the Madonna del Prato from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Muta, the Madonna of the Goldfinch, the Madonna of the Chair, Galatea from the Villa Farnesina, the Veiled, the Fornarina, and many more.

In this regard, the recently deceased scientific director of the Impossible Exhibition, Ferdinando Bologna, argued that “Impossible Exhibitions allow a deeper knowledge of the works and a juxtaposition, by comparison, of works that are normally far apart. Above all, this new generation of art reproductions, at very high definition and life-size, allows an approach to the originals that the originals themselves, in the conditions in which they are normally found, whether in museums or in their own venues, do not allow.”

For information: http://eventi.turismo.marche.it/

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In Urbino the impossible exhibition bringing together all of Raphael's masterpieces. In 1:1 reproductions

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