Le vie del sole (The roads of the sun) – The “Staggia school” and landscape in Tuscany between Barbizon and the “macchia”.

From 5 July to 7 September the exhibition Le vie del sole (The roads of the sun) – The “Staggia school” and landscape in Tuscany between Barbizon and the “macchia” is on show at Palazzo Mediceo in Seravezza (UNESCO heritage site).

The focus of the exhibition, subdivided in three sections, is on 19th century Tuscan painters. In fact, the mid-1850s constituted a crucial moment in the renewal of landscape painting in Tuscany.

The first section outlines the scenario of romantic landscape painting in Florence between 1830 and 1860, with works by Bezzuoli, Morghen, Signorini and Carlo Markò senior.

The second section presents a selection of previously unseen paintings by painters from the Barbizon school who, from the end of the 1820s, ventured into the forest of Fontainebleau, near Paris, where, through direct observation surrounded by nature succeeded in revolutionising landscape painting.

The final section is dedicated to the artists linked to “Staggia school”, dominated by the figures of Altamura, De Tivoli, the brothers Carlo and Andrea Markò, Gelati, La Volpe, Donnini and Nuti. The academic laws were abandoned to make space for the new sensitivity of the artist, enamoured by nature and capable of bringing it alive with abbreviated views of country ruins or farmsteads, on the pebbly shore of a creek, at a watering hole or a dusty road disappearing into the thick of a forest.

With this exhibition, Seravezza aims to pay homage to these artists, intimately tied to its natural scenery.

Inauguration Saturday 5 July 2014, 18.00.
Hours: Monday to Friday: 17.00-24.00 | Saturday and Sunday: 10.30-12.30 – 17.00-24.00.