The relationship between Giacomo Puccini and the visual arts is investigated by an exhibition in Lucca

On view from May 18 through September 18, 2018 is the exhibition Per sogni e per chimere. Giacomo Puccini and the Visual Arts, which, on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the Maestro’s birth, explores that relationship between Giacomo Puccini and the artists of his time and the influence that the composer and his aesthetics exerted on the visual arts in Italy in the late 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century.Curated by Fabio Benzi, Paolo Bolpagni, Maria Flora Giubilei and Umberto Sereni, the exhibition is on display at the Fondazione Ragghianti in Lucca.

The exhibition features more than 120 works from Italy’s most important museums and theaters by artists close to Puccini’s themes and expressive climate, including Boldini, Previati, Chini, Nomellini, Cremona, Michetti, Conconi, Troubetzkoy, Selvatico, Cappiello, De Servi, Discovolo, Pagni, Fanelli, Rietti, De Albertis, Baletrieri, Andreotti, Hohenstein, Metlicovitz and Nunes Vais.
The operas are staged by the famous set designer Margherita Palli (her staging ofAndrea Chénier , which opened the new opera season at Teatro alla Scala on Dec. 7).

The exhibition is organized by the Fondazione Ragghianti in collaboration with the Fondazione Giacomo Puccini, the Centro studi Giacomo Pu ccini and the Fondazione Simonetta Puccini per Giacomo Puccini, and is accompanied by a catalog that stands as an in-depth study of the topics examined, with essays by the curators and other experts, devoted to the following themes: music in the visual arts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Puccini’s portraiture; iconographic cases of paintings and graphics inspired by Puccini’s works; Giacomo Puccini’s passion for and patronage of art; Giacomo Puccini’s relations with the artists of his time; Giacomo Puccini and the “painters of the lake”; Puccini’s houses: decorations, works of art, architecture; Giacomo Puccini draftsman and caricaturist for pleasure; Giacomo Puccini in early 20th century Italian culture.

Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Admission: full 5 €, reduced 3 €, free for children under 6, disabled (and accompanying person), one accompanying person per group, ICOM members, military and law enforcement with badge, accredited journalists. For information you can call +39 0583 467205, visit www.fondazioneragghianti.it or send an e-mail to info@fondazioneragghianti.it.

The relationship between Giacomo Puccini and the visual arts is investigated by an exhibition in Lucca

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