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Intesa Sanpaolo's Gallerie d'Italia: free admission on mid-August

Free admission to the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan, Vicenza and Naples on Sunday 15 August

Intesa Sanpaolo's Gallerie d'Italia: free admission on mid-August

Milano the museum will be open by 9: 30 19 to: 30 with the exhibition Painting is back. The eighties, painting in Italy, an unprecedented look at Italian painting through a path created by Luca Massimo Barbero. More than forty years after those polymorphic and vital eighties, the exhibition proposes a first investigation into the protagonists of that decade, who provocatively understood painting as a happy and rapacious ability to paint the world with a new vitality and who immediately had international visibility and an overflowing reputation.

The permanent collections 'From Canova to Boccioni' and 'Cantiere del 900' will also be open to the public. 'From Canova to Boccioni' proposes a path that, starting from Neoclassicism, documented by Canova's bas-reliefs, reaches the threshold of the twentieth century with Boccioni's pre-futurist canvases, passing through a century of Italian painting. The selection of works by '900 construction site', the project dedicated to enhancing Intesa Sanpaolo's artistic heritage of the XNUMXth and XNUMXst centuries, focuses on a selection of masterpieces from the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, with works by Fontana, Burri, Vedova, Afro, Dorazio, Schifano, Manzoni.

Also at the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan, on August XNUMXth at 10:30 there will be a guided tour of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth century collections. The activity is free with reservations required on the toll-free number 800.167619 or by writing to info@gallerieditalia.com.

Napoli, the Gallerie d'Italia will be open on August XNUMXth from hour to hour 10.00 20.00 with the exhibition Los Angeles (State of Mind), a new chapter in the exhibition curated by Luca Beatrice and dedicated to the great international cities which, towards the end of the 900th century, changed the history of art.

A visit to Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano is also an opportunity to admire the absolute masterpiece of the Intesa Sanpaolo collections, the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula of Caravaggio, and wonderful examples ofNeapolitan art from the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth century including the important nucleus of works by Vincenzo Gemito, the 'sculptor street urchin' who unveils the famous portrait of the Gypsy along with famous sculptures such as the harpooner.

Vicenza, the Galleries of Palazzo Leoni Montanari will be open from hour to hour 10.00 18.00. Available to the public see the invisible, a selection of seventy Russian icons from the Intesa Sanpaolo collection exhibited in a renewed permanent setting that leads the visitor to immerse themselves in Russian Orthodox spirituality through a suggestion of images, sounds and perfumes. One room is dedicated to an interesting dialogue, until 3 July 2022, with the works of contemporary artist Valery Koshlyakov.

Visitors will also be able to admire a selection of Attic and Magna Graecia pottery , Venetian eighteenth-century collection, an authentic journey through 700th century Venice with paintings by Guardi, Longhi, Carlevarijs. Furthermore, the eighteenth-century sculptural group does not cease to amaze The Fall of the Rebel Angels, an amazing pyramid of sixty figures carved in a single piece of Carrara marble, created in the mid-eighteenth century by Agostino Fasolato.

Always at the Vicenza museum on August 15 at 11.00 hours family-friendly activity is plannedFairy tales in the Court: in the kingdom of dragons', an animated story inspired by the mythical protagonists of the decorations of the Baroque palace. The activity is free with reservations required on the toll-free number 800.578875 or by mail at information@palazzomontanari.com. Recommended age: 5-12 years.

How to visit safely, information and reservations on www.gallerieditalia.cominfo@gallerieditalia.com, Toll Free Number 800.167619

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