Dante e Napoleone: Miti fondativi nella cultura bresciana di primo Ottocento
Dante e Napoleone: Miti fondativi nella cultura bresciana di primo Ottocento
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Dante e Napoleone: Miti fondativi nella cultura bresciana di primo Ottocento
W033092 | $54.00
Exhibition Catalog
Palazzo Tosio, Ataneo di Brescia, 2021. Published by Skira Editore, Milan.
168 pp. 160 col., 40 b/w ills. 24 x 17 cm. In Italian. Paperbound.
ISBN 9788857246109
Paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and medals from public and private collections, in dialogue with the permanent path of Paolo Tosio's house-museum. Dante and Napoleon played a central role in the cultural and political life of nineteenth-century Italy. A role that for Bonaparte, once he left the scene and especially after his death, as happened for Alighieri, was cloaked in ideal values, rising to the dimension of myth. As always when this happens, the phenomenon says more about the era than about the characters themselves. In neoclassical and romantic Brescia, the cult of these two personalities and the ideals they embodied is testified by the collections that were established in those years, in particular that of Paolo Tosio. In collecting their memory in his palace, he not only built his own personal pantheon, but also assigned a civil function to his house, selecting and cultivating the symbolic imagery that his contemporaries had to feed on. On the occasion of the seven hundred years since Dante's death and the two hundred since that of Napoleon, the volume therefore aims to illustrate the role played in Brescia by these two emblematic figures in the process of elaborating European cultural identity. curated by Roberta D'Adda and Sergio Onger
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W033092 | $54.00
Exhibition Catalog
Palazzo Tosio, Ataneo di Brescia, 2021. Published by Skira Editore, Milan.
168 pp. 160 col., 40 b/w ills. 24 x 17 cm. In Italian. Paperbound.
ISBN 9788857246109
Paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and medals from public and private collections, in dialogue with the permanent path of Paolo Tosio's house-museum. Dante and Napoleon played a central role in the cultural and political life of nineteenth-century Italy. A role that for Bonaparte, once he left the scene and especially after his death, as happened for Alighieri, was cloaked in ideal values, rising to the dimension of myth. As always when this happens, the phenomenon says more about the era than about the characters themselves. In neoclassical and romantic Brescia, the cult of these two personalities and the ideals they embodied is testified by the collections that were established in those years, in particular that of Paolo Tosio. In collecting their memory in his palace, he not only built his own personal pantheon, but also assigned a civil function to his house, selecting and cultivating the symbolic imagery that his contemporaries had to feed on. On the occasion of the seven hundred years since Dante's death and the two hundred since that of Napoleon, the volume therefore aims to illustrate the role played in Brescia by these two emblematic figures in the process of elaborating European cultural identity. curated by Roberta D'Adda and Sergio Onger
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