Giovanni Buffa & Guido Zuccaro, Glass round, "Medusa"

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Titolo dell'opera:

Medusa

Acquisizione:

Mitchell Wolfson Jr. 2007 Genova - donazione

Autore:

Buffa, Giovanni - Zuccaro, Guido

Epoca:

Inventario:

GX1993.396

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 56

Tecnica:

vetro dipinto

Ultimi prestiti:

Prima Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Decorativa Moderna - Torino, Parco del Valentino - 10/05/1902 – 10/11/1902<br>Famiglia Artistica - Milano

Descrizione:

"[...] the horrendous image, which the serpents encircle ironically, is held suspended by the hand of Perseus and stands out against the sky in all its petrified terror. Already exhibited at the Famiglia Artistica in Milan, it received confirmation of its success in Turin". It was with these words that Alfredo Melani commented in September 1902 on the participation of the leaded glass tondo - made by Guido Zuccaro, on a cartoon by Giovanni Buffa, for the G. Beltrami Vetrate Artistiche in Milan - at the First International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin.
In discontinuity with the past experiences of historicist matrix, this exhibition, whose official programme foresaw, in the name of a total adhesion to modernity, the strict exclusion of works marked by "simple imitations of styles of the past", represented the first exhibition of international scope organised in Italy after unification. Adhering to a strand of research that was very much in vogue at the time, in which the model of the demonic and mutant woman - in its disturbing physiognomic correspondence with the animal world - had by then taken over from the traditional angelic and idealised female portrait, this painted and leaded glass tondo presented clear expressive and iconographic analogies with the literary and mythological transpositions of international Symbolist culture, from Franz von Stuck to Gustave Moreau.

Cappuccini Provincial Archive

The historical archive of the Province of Genova of the Friars Minor Cappuccini holds records dating back to 1538, the year when the monks arrived, called by the hospital’s administration to take care of the sick.

Within a century the Province had monasteries spread throughout the Ligurian region, from Sarzana to Mentone, and as far north as Ovada and Voltaggio. The documents testify of the monks’ apostolic activity in the area, the missions in Africa and South America and more generally their relationship with the population and the civil and religious institutions.

The papers reflect the historical events of five centuries, with first-hand reports not only of devotional aspects and charitable practices, but also of works of art, of political and social change and of the recent world wars. The documents are varied in kind and consist of correspondence, notarial deeds, papal seals, decrees, memoirs, monks’ biographies, records of ordinations, paperwork concerning building and restoration work on the church and monasteries, and photographs. The overall quantity comes to around 4000 archival units, all reorganised and inventoried with CEIAr software.

The inventories of the monasteries’ archival assets are published on the Cultural Heritage of the Church website www.beweb.chiesacattolica.it. The Provincial Curia fund, holding the oldest documents relating to the government of the province, the missions and the lives of the monks, has not yet been published but does have a digital inventory.

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Created by Arturo Codignola with criteria which no longer meet the dictates of contemporary archival theory (as entire series of documents were then taken from the Historical Archive of the Municipality), it was first catalogued with scientific rigour by Bianca Montale, when she was director of the Istituto Mazzini (1956-1970).

In 2011, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the identification and computerised filing of documents was completed, sponsored by the Istituto in collaboration with and under the general supervision of the Archival Superintendency for Liguria, and entirely financed by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

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Richard Miller "Mulino a Vento"

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Vecchia olandese

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Signora con bambina

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Ritorno dalla pesca

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Titolo dell'opera:

Ritorno dalla pesca

Acquisizione:

Luigi Frugone 1953 Genova - legato

Autore:

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin

Epoca:

Inventario:

GAM 1589

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 45; Larghezza: 75

Tecnica:

olio su tela

Descrizione:

The painting depicts some fishermen dragging their boat ashore after a long day at sea, with the late evening sun casting long shadows. In the early 20th century, Sorolla's brushstrokes become looser, quicker and more full-bodied, and he builds the image by zones of light and shadow, moved by a thick, serpentine mark, according to a painting style that puts patches of colour before drawing. In ‘Return from Fishing’, signed and dated 1904, the artist achieves vibrant chromatic effects thanks to a palette in which ochre, blue and white colours chase one another in every element of the representation; the chromatic and formal balance of the composition is animated by the vast portion of shadow cast by the figures and the boat on the seashore in contrast to the glare of the light on the water and the other parts of the painting.

Sonnellino in barca (1869)

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