![]() ![]() 1605) painted on copper by Antonio Carracci - we find paintings on alabaster, slate and marble by Carlo Saraceni, Orazio Gentileschi, Il Caverer Arpino and many others. In the section A DEVOTION ETERNAL AS MARBLE, next to talisman-like works, which were occasionally attributed a magical power of protection against physical and spiritual evils, and dedicated to incorruptible images of devotion - often part of the furnishings of the cardinals' bedrooms, such as the Adoration of the Magi (1600 - 1620) on alabaster by Antonio Tempesta or the Madonna and Child with St. Starting from the first decades of the 17th century, depending on the geographical contexts, the choice of materials oscillates between the need to guarantee the conservation of the works and the interest in the capacity of these materials to evoke the subject itself, to confront the Antique and the other arts, contributing to the construction of the meaning of the image. 1560) attributed to Bronzino, on red porphyry or the Portrait of Pope Clement VII with a Beard (c. ![]() 1550) by Francesco Salviati, on African marble the portrait of Cosimo de Medici (c. ![]() The itinerary, divided into eight sections, begins with THE PAINTED STONE AND ITS INVENTOR, a necessary 16 th century premise that demonstrates how the use of metals and marbles as a support for painting, made it not only capable of conquering time, like sculpture, but also to make the memory of a figure long-lasting: this is revealed by works such as the Portrait of Filippo Strozzi (c. Painting on Stone in Rome in the Seventeenth Century recounts not only the ambition for eternity of works of art, but also the critical debate of an era sensitive to the competition between painting and sculpture, as well as primordial materials, extracted from mines, their adventurous journey to the artists' workshops and their place in collections, which became new venues for these debates, in palaces and villas increasingly rich in furnishings, magnets for the production of luxury goods. With over 60 works from Italian and international museums and important private collections, A Timeless Wonder. It is the collection itself, assembled by Scipione Borghese in the first three decades of the 17th century, that presents examples of stone paintings of considerable interest, while the context, the diversity of materials used in the works and their harmony with historical collections of plants, animals and other natural curiosities that no longer exist, helps to define the sense of wonder and amazement that has characterised it for centuries. The exhibition, designed to draw the public's attention to this production of singular objects, is part of a research project that began in 2021 with an in-depth study of the themes of Nature and Landscape within the Gallery's collection. Painting on Stone in Rome in the Seventeenth Century , curated by Francesca Cappelletti and Patrizia Cavazzini from 25 October 2022 to 29 January 2023. ![]() To the Venetian painter and this terrible event can be attributed the invention of painting on stone, to which the Galleria Borghese is dedicating the exhibition A Timeless Wonder. Desperate for the loss of many paintings during the Sack of Rome in 1527, the painter Sebastiano del Piombo began to paint on supports other than canvas, more resistant to dangers and time, and therefore capable of extending the life of the work. ![]()
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