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closed Raphael and friends from Urbino

Curated by: Barbara Agosti, Silvia Ginzburg

The show

Raphael, a genius who found in Urbino that "culture and culture environment" that allowed him to become what he was.

In Urbino, and in the Marches, he immediately breathed art, in the very active workshop of his father Giovanni Santi, first of all. Not less than from the confrontation with the artists involved in the Corte dei Montefeltro and in the Duchy, artists who brought him closer to the new twenties that on the change of the century, between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, revolutionized art in Italy and in Europe.

"Raphael and the friends of Urbino" (National Gallery of the Marche - Palazzo Ducale di Urbino, from 3 October 2019 to 19 January 2020) is promoted and organized by the National Gallery of the Marche, directed by Peter Aufreiter, and is curated by Barbara Agosti and Silvia Ginzburg.

"He investigates and tells, for the first time in such a complete way, anticipates the Director Aufreiter, the world of Raphael 's relations with a group of industrious artists in Urbino who accompanied, in dialogue but from different positions and stature, his transition towards the modern way and its stylistic developments during the memorable Roman season ".

The role played by the Umbrians Perugino and Luca Signorelli in the formation and in the first part of Raphael 's activity and in parallel with the more mature fellow citizens Girolamo Genga and Timoteo Viti, artists who had to intersect with the Florentine period and with the first times of his presence, was fundamental. Roman by Raphael.

"It is by starting from the common background, from shared experiences, and from the comparison with the different reactions in the face of similar solicitations of figurative culture, that the exceptional 'detachment' made by the young Raphael stands out, and that we mean the characters and limits of the path of the contemporary artists from Urbino who at that time were most connected to him, ”underline the curators of the exhibition.

"In the new dimension of school assumed by the work of Raphael during the pontificate of Leo X are the premises for the subsequent developments of modern painting in the duchy of Urbino, with the emergence of the personality of Raffaellino del Colle from the rib of Giulio Romano and above all with the moving homage to Raphaelesque formal and decorative models attempted by Genga in the aftermath of Raphael 's death but in full continuity and contiguity with his magisterium ".

“The exhibition is therefore - the Curators reiterate - an opportunity to measure, in a specific context of extreme importance such as that of Urbino and in its major stages, the great transformation that involved Italian figurative culture in the passage between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. To these scans correspond, in the historiographical reflection built by Vasari and endorsed by subsequent studies, the initial moment of the adhesion of the painters of the late fifteenth century to the first innovations introduced by Leonardo, or to the adoption of that "sweetness in united colors," that he began to use Bolognese Francia and Pietro Perugino in his affairs; and the peoples in seeing her ran like mad to this new and more alive beauty, it seemed to them absolutely that it was never possible to do better ”.

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Piazza Rinascimento 13
61029 Urbino

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