Schools closed and museums closed? In Rome, Raphael's frescoes open for DaD

Coming from Rome is an idea to. obviate the problem of closed schools and closed museums due to the health emergency, in one fell swoop. Villa Farnesina, the splendid 16th-century residence of Agostino Chigi (now the property of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei), designed by Baldassarre Peruzzi and home to frescoes by Raphael (his is the splendid and celebrated Loggia di Galatea), Sodoma, Sebastiano del Piombo and other greats of the time, opens for the... distance education. In fact, the villa’s management offers tour guides, secondary and high school professors and university lect urers the opportunity to conduct tours or lectures remotely directly from the villa. That is: the guide or professor goes to the villa’s premises in presence, and from there they can hold their meeting or lecture. This is the offer and contribution that the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei intends to offer as a sign of its closeness to the world of schools and culture in general.

The Villa is closed, like all museums, but it will be open on an extraordinary basis for the referent of the visit or distance learning lesson every Wednesday from 11 to 12:30 p.m.: guides and teachers will have to reach the institute equipped with their own instrumentation (tablet or smartphone and Covid emergency personal protective equipment), and the digital activities will be usable free of charge at school or at home through the platforms used by the relevant institutes.

Finally, Villa Farnesina also offers an additional possibility: at the end of each visit or lesson, a 15-20 minute window of time will be granted during which activity participants can ask questions to the curators and researchers who worked on the creation of the exhibition Raphael in Villa Farnesina: Galatea and Psyche, which opened last Oct. 6 but closed shortly afterwards again due to the anti-Covid provisions that imposed the lockdown of cultural venues.

Image: the Loggia of Galatea at the Villa Farnesina. Ph. Credit Miguel Hermoso Cuesta

Schools closed and museums closed? In Rome, Raphael's frescoes open for DaD

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