Since February 5 2021 the halls of Royal Palace di Milano will host a unique exhibition dedicated to the greatest female artists who lived between the 500th and 600th centuries: Artemisia Gentileschi, Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Elizabeth Sirani, Faith Galicia, Giovanna Garzoni and many others.
With the exhibition The Ladies of the Art. Stories of women between '500 and '600, the art and the amazing lives of 34 different artists are being rediscovered today through over 150 works, testifying to an intense all-female creative vitality, in a unique tale of exciting stories of already "modern" women.
There are the best-known artists but also those less known to the general public, there are new discoveries, such as the Roman noble Claudia del Bufalo, who becomes part of this history of female art, and there are works exhibited for the first time as la Altarpiece of the Madonna dell'Itriaby Sofonisba Anguissola, built in Sicily, in Paternò, in 1578 and never left the island before; just as Rosalia Novelli's altarpiece leaves Palermo for the first time Immaculate Madonnae Saint Francis Borgia, the only certain work by the artist, dated 1663, from the Church of Gesù in Casa Professa; or the canvas Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherineby Lucrezia Quistelli from 1576, from the parish church of Silvano Pietra near Pavia.
Under the curatorship of Anna Maria Bava, Joy Mori e Alain Tapie, the works selected for the exhibition come from ben 67 different lenders, including - at national level - the Uffizi galleries, the Capodimonte Museum, the Brera Art Gallery, Castello Sforzesco, the National Gallery of Umbria, the Borghese Gallery, the Royal Museums of Turin and the National Art Gallery of Bologna and - from abroad – from the Musée des Beaux Arts in Marseille and the Muzeum Narodowe in Poznan (Poland).
The exhibition is promoted by the Municipality of Milan-Cultura and created by Palazzo Reale and Arthemisia and adheres to the schedule Women's talents, promoted by the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Milan and dedicated to the universe of women, focusing attention, throughout 2020 and until April 2021, on their works, their priorities and their abilities.
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