The episodes have the task of illustrating both the materials used in the works on display, their link with the historical collections and finally, telling curiosities and original stories about their finding.
La first episode - Rome delight – tells the Galleria Borghese, a refined guardian of centuries of beauty, while the others are dedicated to the protagonists of an interweaving of stories about stone painting, its materials, and the challenge launched against time and corruptibility.
The first two episodes of the series podcast "Timeless Wonders" are available on site Galleria Borghese on the main free streaming platforms.
Podcast Galleria Borghese: the program
| Episode 0 - Rome delight There are men and women inextricably linked to the places they ardently wanted and built to make them a garrison of history. Among these is certainly Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a controversial and unscrupulous character, who in Rome had the palace erected outside Porta Pinciana to give substance to his dream of beauty. Let yourself be welcomed, therefore, in this abode of art, in this temple of the universe, in this place of beauty by its own landlord: he will be able to make you enjoy the infinite delights that today as then he continues to guard like a precious casket and introduce you to the wonder that its rooms and collections still know how to arouse. Episode 1 - Painted stone: resisting time If even stones could talk… what stories would peperino tell, the tuffaceous stone of extinct volcanoes in the Lazio hinterland that for centuries has given shape to famous palaces, monuments, portals and stairways such as Castel Sant'Angelo, the Cloaca Maxima and the Sacred Wood of Bomarzo? How did it end up in the bold hands of Sebastiano del Piombo? What challenge was she involved in? Hear everything from his authentic voice, he will be able to amaze you! Episode 2 - Slate: a challenge to yourself Slate speaks volumes, the black gold of Liguria, which, with its thin, dark and compact slabs, offered itself to sixteenth-century painters as "the most precious of gems because it is able to distinguish vices from virtues" on which to paint . He will tell you about his reflecting abilities, his potential in the rendering of night scenes, but above all he will be able to captivate you with the unsuspected stories of the men who extracted it, of the bearers who took care of its transport, of the craftsmen who wisely cut it into slabs ... because behind every work of art hides a whole world made up of men and women, of hidden professionalism and skills that it is good to highlight. Episode 3 - Lapis lazuli: the most desired blue The word to the precious lapis lazuli, the rarest and most sought-after blue stone in the history of art. Coming from the distant lands of Afghanistan, since ancient times it has "frequented" the world of artists, coloring with its powder the infinite skies of medieval frescoes and the cloaks of innumerable Madonnas. Here he will be able to tell us about the markets of ancient Kabul, about the unsuspected routes of his travels in an already global market at the beginning of the modern age and about that osmosis between nature and creativity, between object and content which through its beauty takes shape between the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century. Episode 4 - The village stone: nature paints Humble, modest, not at all exuberant in terms of colors and shapes, the village stone is apparently not as beautiful as the others and, like the Cinderella of the stones, remains hidden for a long time in the bed of the Arno river. However, her enthusiastic voice tells of when someone unexpectedly discovered inside her "fantasies and jokes that nature plays" making her the appreciated protagonist of scientific cabinets and Wunderkammer and making her enter the ateliers of painters who enjoyed painting on her 4 hands with nature. |
