Vicenza: La fabbrica del Rinascimento

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I creatori dell’Egitto eterno. Scribi, artigiani e operai al servizio del faraone

Vicenza, 11 dicembre 2021 - 18 aprile 2022. Alla metà del Cinquecento a Vicenza accade qualcosa di unico, per certi aspetti incredibile. Fra le aree più dinamiche in Europa per la produzione e per il commercio della seta, la città, forte di una ricchezza crescente, scommette sulla trasformazione...

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I creatori dell’Egitto eterno. Scribi, artigiani e operai al servizio del faraone

Vicenza, 11 December 2021 - 18 April 2022. Something unique, indeed in some ways incredible, took place in the mid-16th century in Vicenza. Among the most dynamic areas in Europe for the production and trading of silk, the city, thanks to its increasing wealth, took a gamble on the...

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transformation of its image from a “provincial location”, through avant-garde art and architecture, into a true capital of culture. Cultured and cosmopolitan clients, Vicenza’s nobility believed in the visions of a group of talented, ambitious young artists, who would become famous all over the world. What bound them together was their passion for new art nourished by that of Antiquity, born in the Rome of Michelangelo and Raphael, the art that Vasari was to define as the “modern manner”. It was very clear to the young artists that the resounding strength of this new language would enable them to challenge and undermine the venerated and celebrated masters and their traditional models, which were dominant in Venice at the time.

It was the genius of the architecture of Andrea Palladio, of the painters Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Bassano and the great sculptor Alessandro Vittoria.