With the new year the lectures organized by the Fondazione Ragghianti restart with a rich and variegated program dedicated to the world of art.
On Friday January 16th, Annalisa Zanni, director of the Museo Poldi Pezzoli and Aldo Galli, curator of the exhibition “Le Dame dei Pollaiolo. Una bottega fiorentina del Rinascimento” will be present. It’s an unique exhibition because is promoted by a museum starting from a work of art of its own collection and represents the outcome of a scientific and historical research on one of the main art workshop of the Renaissance.
The conferences will take place at the Conference hall of the Monumental Complex of San Micheletto, in via san Micheletto, 3 in Lucca. Free entrance.
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On February 6th the Fondazione Ragghianti will host Paolo Matthiae, professor of archaeology and History of Art of the Ancient Near East and director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Syria. Matthiae , who is the only archaeologist in the world to have discovered a new city, Ebla, and an ancient civilization, during the second half of the XX century, will hold a conference titled “The discovery of Ebla and the tragedy of the artistic heritage in Syria”.
The lectures that deepen the cultural and the artistic history of Lucca, start on Friday March 13th with the seminary on Pietro Testa cured by the art historian
Giulia Fusconi co-author of the volume “Pietro Testa e la nemica Fortuna. Un artista filosofo (1612-1650) tra Lucca e Roma” , a monumental monograph, promoted by the Istituto Nazionale della Grafica which illustrates the character, the work and the activity of Pietro Testa (or Lucchesino), draughtsman, painter, engraver, one of the most interesting personalities among the graphic designers of the XVII century.
On Friday April 10th we’ll meet the curators of the Fototeca della Fondazione Federico Zeri di Bologna and on April 24th the lecture-debate “Le città d’arte tra cultura e turismo”, held by Prof. Vittorio Emiliani, will treat about the future of the art cities divided between conservation and recovery of the cultural roots and the needs of art.
The last two meetings of the series, held by Federica Chezzi and Chiara Toti, scheduled on May 8th and 22nd will investigate themes of contemporary art.
Fondazione Centro studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
Complesso monumentale di San Micheletto, Via San Micheletto, 3 Lucca
TEL. 0583/467205
info@fondazioneragghianti.it
Fondazione Centro studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
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