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capital Rome. The Grand Tour

An exhibition at the Museo del Corso in Rome

In 1734, under Pope Clement XII, opened the Capitoline Museums, the first public collection of history. Nearly forty years later, in 1771, but opened the Pio Clementino, wing of the Vatican Museums, perhaps the largest collection of antiquities in the world. Nestled between these two dates, is the contribution of Rome to the root of modern culture. The international laboratory inspired by the neo-classical artists, antique dealers, scholars, writers and rebuilt by a show hosted until March 6 in the new premises of the Museo del Corso: Rome and the ancient, reality and vision in the 700 by Carolina and Valter Curzi Brook. Review refined collecting masterpieces of Vanvitelli, Sandwiches, Mengs, David, Batoni, Canova, Valadier, Piranesi, and other players in a season all too often neglected.
The rediscovery of the classical, in fact, occurred in northern Europe, dictated by the need to develop an aesthetic Journal for the industrial bourgeoisie. And in Rome was the natural capital of antiquity imaginary, frigid and artificial revisited by the demands of modern taste, where marble and antique dealers did not hesitate to act on the findings to fold an abstract ideal of perfection rational in vogue in those years. A city that the editors give us an active protagonist of the eighteenth century - thanks to people such as Mengs and Winckelmann - and not just half of The Grand Tour
the exhibition makes clear that, for example, reconstructs the laboratory Cavaceppi Bartholomew, the sculptor service of Cardinal Albani, easy restorer who works to provide more European collectors. And the valuable essays in the catalog (nearly 500 pages, published by Skira), which reconstruct the stages of intellectual discovery of a classical ideal for to invade Europe: colorless statues, colonnades, milk-white faces geometrical, primary colors and straight lines and sharp. A closer look, so, at that time Rome became the capital of a true ideological operation, where the neoclassical bent, the originals no longer be distinguished from the false and ended up invading half of Europe. And where, to subdue the desired image collections, the museum Pio Clementino offered perhaps in adaptation between container and contents, the first example of modern museology.