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Commissariat of Fabio Benzi, Paolo Bolpagni and Maria Flora Giubilei with an exhibition design of the famous scenographer Margherita Palli, exhibition Per sogni e per chimere. Giacomo Puccini and the arti visive [Dreams and Chimaeras: Giacomo Puccini and the Visual Arts] runs until September 23 at the Fondazione Ragghianti in Lucca
With 120 works and a staging in collaboration with the main organizations retaining the legacy from Puccini, the exhibition explores the profound influence of the great composer He had on Italian art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries during the transitional climate between late naturalism, Scapigliatura, Symbolism and Art Nouveau.
The core of the exhibition consists of portraits with paintings and sculptures of artists such as Giovanni Boldini, Lino Selvatico, and Leonetto Cappiello, and famous and beloved operas of Puccini.
Leonetto Cappiello, "Ritratto caricaturale di Giacomo Puccini", oil on canvas, Collezione Edda Bresciani, Lucca. (With the permission of the Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca)
Another theme presents the works of many of the artists with whom Puccini made contacts during his stay in Milan in the 1880s or who fell under his influence. decoration of its houses in Versilia. The exhibition also includes the Galileo Chini vases and Carlo Bugatti's furniture as well as the works of Plinio Nomellinim Duilio Camellotti, Libero Andreotti, Gaetano Previati and the group of Tuscan painters Ferruccio Pagni, Angiolo and Ludovico Tommasi and Francesco Fanelli – who formed around the Bohemian Club in Torre del Lago. All this is complemented by a vast selection of photographs, famous posters of Puccini operas created by outstanding poster artists such as Adolfo Hohenstein and Leopoldo Metlicovitz, costumes and stage sketches.
Lina Rosso, "Piano Puccini", 1918, oil on wood. (With the permission of the Fondazione Simonetta Puccini by Giacomo Puccini)
Per sogni e per chimere. Giacomo Puccini and the arti visive
under the direction of Fabio Benzi, Paolo Bolpagni and Maria Flora Giubilei
Fondazione Centro Studi sull & Arte Licia and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
Monumental Ensemble of San Micheletto, Via San Micheletto 3, Lucca
May 18 – September 23, 2018
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