The Uffizi celebrates Pietro Aretino with the first exhibition entirely dedicated to him

TheMagliabechiana Hall of the Uffizi Galleries will host the exhibition Pietro Aretino and the Art of the Renaissance, curated by Anna Bisceglia, Matteo Ceriana and Paolo Procaccioli, from November 27, 2019 to March 1, 2020. This is the first exhibition entirely dedicated to the poet, writer and intellectual Pietro Aretino (Arezzo, 1492 - Venice, 1556).

About one hundred works, including paintings, sculptures, objects of applied art, tapestries, miniatures and printed books, will be on display, divided into five sections that aim to reconstruct the world of the great 16th-century intellectual.
The most significant moments of his life will then be presented: from his beginnings between Arezzo and Perugia to the papal court in Rome, and his move to northern Italy, first to Mantua and later to Venice.

The Palatine Gallery holds his portrait by Titian, a painter known for his effigies of popes and emperors. Aretino lived and participated with his writings in a fundamental moment in Italian history and art: the rise of Michelangelo and Raphael in Rome and the spread throughout Europe of the culture that had matured in the first three decades of the 16th century in the pomp of the court of Julius II, Leo X and Clement VII. According to Giorgio Vasari himself in his Lives, Pietro Aretino lived at the height of the Modern Manner.

For further appronfondo, interviews with the exhibition curators: https://www.finestresullarte.info/1119n_pietro-aretino-rapporto-con-le-arti-intervista-anna-bisceglia-matteo-ceriana.php

https://www.finestresullarte.info/1122n_pietro-aretino-intervista-a-paolo-procaccioli.php

For info: www.uffizi.it

Image: Titian, Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1545; oil on canvas; Florence, Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti)

The Uffizi celebrates Pietro Aretino with the first exhibition entirely dedicated to him

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