Tiepolo and Naples Art Nouveau, the two major autumn exhibitions of the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan and Naples

Gallerie d’Italia’s Milan and Naples venues present two major exhibitions for the fall.

From September 25, 2020 to January 24, 2021, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano in Naples will host the exhibition Napoli Liberty. N’aria ’e primmavera, curated by Luisa Martorelli and Fernando Mazzocca. More than seventy works will be on display to testify to the originality of the Art Nouveau style in the capital of Campania, including paintings, precious objects of goldsmithing and semi-precious stones, graphics and advertising posters, highlighting the original features of art in Naples from 1889 to 1915. As the capital of modernity, Naples offers the Art Nouveau style ranging from the major arts to the applied arts.

The exhibition offers a look at the stay in Naples of Felice Casorati, who took part in the first experiences of the Secessionist avant-garde. The Neapolitan exhibition opens with these paintings, anticipating the works of the protagonists of Art Nouveau featured in the following rooms: Edgardo Curcio, Francesco Galante, Odoardo Pansini, Raffaele Uccella, Eugenio Viti, Costantino Barbella, Filippo Cifariello and Saverio Gatto.

A significant space will be devoted to applied arts; among the works on display will be Filippo Palizzi’s Fountain of Herons (1887).
In the Museo Scuola Officina (now Museo Artistico Industriale), at the beginning of the 20th century, the masters and students of the workshops of the Officina della Ceramica e Stipetteria became active in the production of objects in tune with the manufactures exhibited at the Universal Expositions and made floral decorations typical of the new style. In the Sorrento School of Art also updated its production of inlaid furniture: two works by Almerico Gargiulo are on display. Also on display will be manufactures of the highest quality in the sphere of precious goldsmithing and manufacture of semi-precious stones (coral, mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, a genre in which Naples becomes first in Europe. Jewelry by Emanuele Centonze, Gaetano Jacoangeli and Vincenzo Miranda will be on view, and the Torre del Greco School of Coral, which was distinguished for its refined, eclectic and modern workmanship of semi-precious stones, will also be represented. Central to this section is Vincenzo Migliaro’s painting Seductions (1906).

The exhibition closes with posters and advertising graphics in which Naples is among the major Italian centers. Works by internationally renowned artists such as Leonetto Cappiello, Marcello Dudovich, Vincenzo Migliaro, and Pietro Scoppetta will be on display.

Instead, the star of the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan’s Piazza Scala will be Giambattista Tiepolo, from October 30, 2020 to March 21, 2021: this is the first exhibition in the Lombard capital dedicated to the painter. Curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Alessandro Morandotti, with general coordination by Gianfranco Brunelli, the exhibition Tiepolo. Venice, Milan, Europe will present about seventy works by Tiepolo and important artists contemporary with him, including Antonio Pellegrini, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Sebastiano Ricci and Paolo Pagani. On the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Tiepolo’s death, his artistic career will be retraced, his major commissions in the cities that saw him as a protagonist (Venice, Milan, Dresden and Madrid).

In the exhibition itinerary from his formative years in Venice to his consecration in the great European courts, extraordinary masterpieces will be on view: from the youthful mythologies of the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice to the Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew created in 1722 for the church of San Stae in Venice, displayed next to the Martyrdom of St. Jacopo by Piazzetta created for the same site. Tiepolo’s early mature years are represented by the large cycles of canvases for the Venetian palaces of the Sandi and Zenobio families. First stop in his international affirmation is Milan. Works restored for the occasion will be on view, such as the frescoes for the basilica of Sant’Ambrogio and the fresco for Palazzo Gallarati Scotti.

It will be possible to follow the preparatory stages of the fresco for the Gallery on the piano nobile of Palazzo Clerici through some drawings and a sketch from the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. German productions, on the other hand, are represented by the sketch for a staircase of the Würzburg Residence from Stuttgart, and by the free reinvention of a subject thought up for the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland Augustus III: the Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra, documented here in the variant from the National Gallery in London.

The years in Germany and Spain were the years of close collaboration between Tiepolo and his sons, especially with Giandomenico: the exhibition closes on a confrontation between father and sons, with the Saint Francis of Assisi Receives the Stigmata from the Prado Museum and Abraham and the Angels from the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice.

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Image: Giambattista Tiepolo, Saint Francis of Assisi Receives the Stigmata (1767-1769; oil on canvas, 278 x 153 cm; Madrid, Prado) Credit Museo Nacional del Prado

Tiepolo and Naples Art Nouveau, the two major autumn exhibitions of the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan and Naples

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