Stories of people and works of art interwoven into a rich web of relations. Such an original and impassioned system is presented by the exhibition “Patrons, Collectors, Philanthropists. From the Medici to the Rothschilds”. From 18 November 2022 to 26 March 2023, the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan will be offering the opportunity to examine first-hand the history of commissioning, which brings famous artists into contact with great art enthusiasts, in particular the famous bankers who have given their names to vast and precious art collections, now shared among private and museum collections.
“Patrons, Collectors, Philanthropists. From the Medici to the Rothschilds” at the Gallerie d’Italia
Gallerie d’Italia will host an exhibition that brings together the lives of well-known artists with their great patrons, bankers who gave their names to vast and extremely rich art collections.
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- Valentina Petrucci
- 31 October 2022
The Medicis, the Giustinianis, the Torlonias, the Rothschilds; families that made their mark in the history of art and beyond, as well as refined philanthropists and collectors such as Enrico Milyus, a German banker and entrepreneur who lived in Milan, a friend of Alessandro Manzoni and a patron of Francesco Hayez, John Perpont Morgan, an American businessman, whose collection was mostly donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, or the Italian Raffaele Mattioli, the “humanist banker” and admirer of Giacomo Mazù, Renato Gattuso and Giorgio Morandi. Portraits of art and of life that use well-known works to provide an account of history and the production mechanisms that surround them. It is an itinerary that begins with the Renaissance and ends in the twentieth century, from Verrocchio, via Michelangelo Buonarroti, Agnolo Bronzino, Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, Antoon Van Dyck and Francesco Hayez, right up to the more contemporary Giorgio Morandi.
Tazza Farnese, Prima metà del II sec. a.C.
Michelangelo Buonarroti , Madonna della scala, 1490 ca
Antonio del Pollaiolo, Ercole e Anteo, 1475 ca.
Agnolo di Cosimo detto il Bronzino e bottega, Ritratto di Lorenzo il Magnifico, 1552-1553
Caravaggio, San Gerolamo Penitente, 1605
Angelika Kauffmann, Ritratto del conte Josef Johann von Fries con il Teseo vincitore del Minotauro di Canova, 1787
Johann Carl Schultz, Veduta del Duomo di Milano, 1829
Francesco Hayez, La fuga di Bianca Capello da Venezia, 1853-1854
Giovanni Migliara, La filanda Mylius a Boffalora Ticino, 1828
Francesco Hayez, Ritratto di Luigia Vitali Mylius Vigoni, 1832
Francesco Hayez, Sansone uccide un leone, 1842
Angelo Inganni, Veduta sulla Piazza del Duomo con il coperto dei Figini, 1838
Gaspare Vanvitelli, Veduta di Napoli con Largo di Palazzo, inizio del XVIII secolo
Giovanni Boldini, Ritratto di Fattori nel suo studio, 1866-1867
Giorgio Morandi, Natura Morta, 1946