After a year of closure, the Corsini Gallery in Rome reopens, a museum of ancient art ideally and organizationally connected to the National Gallery of Palazzo Barberini; and reopens with the first exhibition ever dedicated to a very particular artist of the seventeenth century, Plautila Bricci, painter but above all ‘architect’, as she was defined as being the first woman in Italy and Europe to boast the title of architect, to whose figure she is also dedicated to the latest novel by Melania Mazzucco, ‘L’Architettrice’, published in 2019 and since 21 October returned to bookstores for re-publication by the Einaudi publishing house in the Super Et series. “This is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Plautilla Bricci, a very particular figure of Roman art of the seventeenth century, a universal artist: a talented painter, a prolific and highly skilled draftsman as well as the creator of ephemeral apparatuses for parties and occasional celebrations, but above all ‘ architect ‘, the first woman to be an architect by profession in European art “, the curator of the exhibition Yuri Primarosa underlines to AdnKronos. An exhibition that also allows you to appreciate the new interventions of functional adaptation and conservation and protection of the works and decorative elements of the Corsini Gallery, reopened to the public. “His extraordinary artistic versatility is presented in this exhibition through 46 works, half composed of graphics from drawings and prints and half pictorial. We reconstruct for the first time the pictorial physiognomy of an artist who until now was almost exclusively known for having been the ‘architect’ of the ship on the Janiculum destroyed by the French army cannon fire in 1849. Here we operate a choice of courage, presenting to the public not what is already known but what is not yet known “, observes Primarosa. The exhibition at the Corsini Gallery offers visitors among the works on display the portrait of Plautilla Bricci – which also stands out on the cover of catalog published by Officina Libraria – from a private collection in Los Angeles; the portrait of Cardinal Mazarin painted by Pietro da Cortona; the Banner of St. John the Baptist made by Plautilla on a double panel to represent the birth on one side and the martyrdom with beheading on the opposite side, preserved in Poggio Mirteto in Sabina; the projects for the steps of Trinità de ‘Monti shared with Elpidio Benedetti, from the Vatican Apostolic Library; the Madonna with Child, the miraculous icon of the Virgin of Carmel from the Roman church of Santa Maria in Montesanto; the Lateran Lunette with the Angel offering the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Eternal Father, with the Latin inscription, ‘invenit et pixit’ or conceived and painted, with which Plautilla Bricci signed his work. the real and artistic figure of Plautilla Bricci with that of the ‘Architect’ described in the novel by Melania Mazzucco? “They are very close and at the same time very distant – explains the curator of the exhibition Yuri Primarosa to AdnKronos – Some data that we knew before setting up this exhibition were then corrected as the project was deepened together with Melania Mazzucco herself, by bringing out new elements and partly by sparing the cards, even if the novel remains very faithful to the figure of the architect. Moreover, philology cannot always arrive and explain everything and the imagination of a writer can succeed with the likely to render a truth that has remained hidden “. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)
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