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Theaters and small theaters:

The performing arts between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the collections of Palazzo Madama.

From 20 June to 9 September 2024

Palazzo Madama - Civic Museum of Ancient Art

Piazza Castello, Turin

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Palazzo Madama is pleased to present the exhibition project Theaters and Little Theaters. The arts of the stage between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the collections of Palazzo Madama, a new opportunity to discover the treasures kept in the museum's permanent collections. The exhibition presents a selection of materials related to the history of theater, including various nuclei of scenographic drawings: from the works of Filippo Juvarra for the theater of Cardinal Ottoboni contained in the first two volumes of drawings by the Messina architect, to the scenographic sketches of the Galli da Bibiena, the brothers Bernardino, Fabrizio and Giuseppe Galliari, Pietro Gonzaga and Romolo Liverani, created for musical works staged in the theaters of Turin, Milan and Parma from 1750 to the end of the following century. Alongside these graphic masterpieces are placed the painting by Giovanni Michele Graneri depicting the interior of the Teatro Regio in Turin with the representation of Lucio Papirio in 1752, and the fan depicting the Teatro Regio and the Teatro Carignano with the boxes and the names of the occupants in the theatrical season of 1780 - 1781. All these works owe their historical and bibliographic arrangement to Mercedes Viale Ferrero (1924 - 2019), a Turin scholar, daughter of Vittorio Viale, director of the Civic Museum of Ancient Art in Turin from 1930 to 1965, whose centenary of birth is celebrated this year. The exhibition is also an opportunity to exhibit a selection of nineteenth-century puppet theater backdrops, arrived at Palazzo Madama thanks to the bequest of Mario Moretti (1984). These are a series of fifteen backdrops, still mounted on the original rods, coming from the theater known as San Martiniano in Via San Francesco d'Assisi in Turin (located near the church of the Saints Processo and Martiniano, no longer existing today), where the Lupi - Franco company operated. The subjects depicted were of historical-political and patriotic relevance, closely related to the ideals of the Risorgimento, and often these objects reproduced works and dances performed in real theaters, sometimes with modifications and critical revisions. The scenes were created by the same painters who worked at the Teatro Regio and the Carignano: among others, Giuseppe Bertoja, Giovanni Venere, Giuseppe Maria Morgari.

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Theaters and small theaters:

The performing arts between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the collections of Palazzo Madama.

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