Intesa Sanpaolo adheres to the new edition of “Invitation to the Palace”, the national event promoted by the Italian Banking Association to enhance the architectural, historical and artistic heritage of Italian banks. This year we celebrate the XX edition which will maintain a mixed modality like last year.
Saturday October 2 will be open free of charge, in compliance with the anti-contagion rules, the three Galleries of Italy (Milan, Vicenza and Naples), the Savings Museum in Turin and there Ivan Bruschi House Museum of Antiques of Arezzo. Until Saturday 9 October 2021, the event will take place in digital form with podcasts, videos and virtual visits on the portals of banks, foundations and the Bank of Italy.
Among the novelties, the initiative "The paths of art with an invitation to the palace": a virtual journey to discover the stories and beauties of the palaces through podcasts created by Abi Servizi in collaboration with the journalist and popularizer Nicolas Ballario.
Furthermore, the event has the patronage of the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Tourism. Followed by the face-to-face initiatives in Intesa Sanpaolo museums, all free.
In Milan, the galleries offer numerous temporary exhibitions: the weekend of "Invito a Palazzo" is the last chance to visit the exhibition "Painting is back" which traces the vitality of the 80s with the curatorship of Luca Massimo Barbero. "Passo a due", the photographic exhibition of portraits of Roberto Bolle made by the otographer Giovanni Gastel in the beautiful nineteenth-century cloister while, in the Sala delle Colonne, a project by the artist Francesca Leone curated by Andrea Viliani: Francesca Leone. On the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to Jeff Koons which always opens on 2 October at Palazzo Strozzi, of which Intesa Sanpaolo is the Main Partner, the Galleries offer the exhibition of the work of the American artist Gazing Ball. Centaur and Lapith Maiden. It will also be proposedA museum plus palaces”, a journey to discover the architectural complex of the Gallerie d'Italia with free guided tours lasting 60 minutes.
While, at the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, flash visits dedicated to the history of Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, with particular reference to the architectural transformations of the building, its decorations and the vicissitudes of the owners who lived there over the centuries. Together with the magnificent Baroque palace revisited in Art Nouveau style, the exhibition itinerary sees the presence, together with the masterpiece of Intesa Sanpaolo collection the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula by Caravaggio, of over 120 works from the Neapolitan and southern areas in a chronological arc that goes from the early 600s to the early 900s.
In Vicenza, on the other hand, the Galleries of Palazzo Leoni Montanari propose the guided tour "A Palace and its collections: from the beauty of the Baroque residence, to the new exhibition proposals dedicated to the collection of Attic and Magno-Greek ceramics and the collection of Russian icons" and "Family lab. Fantastic Beasts at Palazzo Leoni Montanari. On the back of a seahorse”, activities for children (5-12 years) and families. Throughout the day, it will also be possible to admire the permanent collections with the Venetian 700th century and "The fall of the rebel angels" by Agostino Fasolato, a sculpture with over 60 subjects carved in a single block of Carrara marble, Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics in the exhibition with didactic function Clay. Stories of vases and the new installation of Russian icons Seeing the invisible, in dialogue with the exhibition of the contemporary Russian artist Valery Koshlyakov. Celestial architectures.
The Savings Museum, located in the heart of Turin, offers the “Legonomics laboratory”, to bring children aged 6 to 12 closer to some basic contents of economics such as inflation, GDP, unemployment, costs of climate change, gender differences. In addition, guided tours of the collection of piggy banks are planned "From the past to the future".
For the first time under the aegis of Intesa Sanpaolo, Ivan Bruschi's Casa Museo dell'Antiquariato is open to the public in Arezzo, in the historic Captain's Palace headquarters of the Foundation of the same name. The proposal for Saturday 2 October includes: at 11.00 a face-to-face educational workshop for families: "Pack your suitcase, let's leave for a trip to the East!". At 16.30 pm the guided tour of the exhibition “L'Oriente in Casa. Works from the collection of Frederick Stibbert”, deepened then at 17.30 with online and face-to-face interventions.
The following are foreseen for all locations: display of the Green Pass, controlled and limited access, temperature measurement, use of the mask during the entire stay.
