This is the Portrait of Countess Teresa Zumali Marsili with her son Giuseppe, painted in 1833 by Francesco Hayez (1791-1882), from the Civic Museum of Lodi.
This superb portrait, one of the peaks reached by Francesco Hayez in this genre, belongs to a particularly significant period in the career of the artist who, between the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, consolidated his undisputed supremacy as the leader of historical Romanticism, in the so-called "civil" painting, ie relating to the representation in a current key of the events of the history of modern Italy.
The review – open on Easter and Easter Monday, from 10.00 to 20.00 – explore the sacred and archetypal aspect of motherhood and its fundamental role in Mediterranean culture, through 170 archaeological and artistic masterpieces (from Rosso Fiorentino, Pinturicchio, Veronese, Moretto, to Hayez, Casorati, Ernst, Giacometti, up to Michelangelo Pistoletto and Bill Viola), from over 70 important Italian museums and collections.
The story, created from works of every era on the theme of the great mystery of motherhood, questions how much the value of procreation and the responsibility of growth have represented and continue to represent in the life of every human being. The exhibition itinerary, divided into four macro sections, accompanies the visitor through the symbols of motherhood, in that territory where thought meets technique, colors, design and where nothing must have limits, creating a space where the visitor can find its own profound and exclusive interpretation.
MATER, placed under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic, promoted by the Municipality of Parma, is conceived by Elena Fontanella, curated by Annamaria Andreoli, Elena Fontanella and Cosimo Damiano Fonseca, and boasts the Patronage of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, the Emilia Romagna Region and the Diocese of Parma, with the support of Barilla, Chiesi Farmaceutici, Iren, Opem, Conad Centro Nord, Monte di Parma Foundation and Cantine Ceci and the technical contribution of Reale Mutua, Fidenza Village, Ikea and toe.
