An exceptional rediscovered masterpiece will be presented, the Venus disarming Cupid in white marble by the sculptor Giusto Le Court (Ypres, 1627-Venice 1679) which constitutes an extraordinary addition to the catalog of the Flemish artist active in Venice, the greatest exponent of the lagoon Baroque. The sensuality of Venus, the expressiveness of Cupid's face, the incomparable technical quality in rendering the softness of the flesh are just some of the hallmarks of the style of what was already called by his contemporaries "the Adriatic Bernini".
Among the sculptures to remember is also the bas-relief with the profile of a philosopher by Giovanni Bonazza (Venice, 1654 - Padua 1736), another great name on the Venetian artistic panorama of the XNUMXth century, almost a specialist in the theme of the gallery of portraits of illustrious characters of the past , some of which are kept in important Italian and foreign public collections.
The furniture collection is also superb: in fact, the magnificent pair of inlaid cabinets made by the greatest Lombard cabinetmaker, Giuseppe Maggiolini (Parbiago, Milan, 1738-1814), for Giorgio Pio Pallavicini Trivulzio on the occasion of his wedding in 1787, will be exhibited. the preparatory drawings are kept in the Cabinet of Drawings at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, as well as a very elegant lacquered Venetian console from the mid-eighteenth century, with floral motifs and a jasper top.
Among the ceramics, a fish dish from the Ferretti Manufacture in Lodi stands out decorated with a pike (around 1750), a majolica plate decorated with playing cards from the Antonibon Manufacture in Nove (around 1760), pieces of great rarity both for the subject decorative than due to the excellent state of conservation, and finally a group of four porcelain glasses decorated with musician characters from the Royal Factory of Capodimonte (1754-1757) kept in the original leather case, formerly in the collection of the House of Savoy.
And again the refined eighteenth-century Venetian lacquers, including a pair of figurines of a Turk and a Moretto, probably two Magi, the beautiful boxes and trays with chinoiserie and amorous scenes, as well as a precious collection of objects in tortoiseshell decorated with piqué in gold and mother-of-pearl, including an exceptional box containing several smaller boxes, fruit of the highest Neapolitan craftsmanship of the mid-eighteenth century.
AMART 2018, 9-12 May 2018, inauguration 8 May 2018 Milan.
