In Seravezza premacchiaioli the painters of the "school of Staggia"

Inaugurated at the Palazzo Medici Seravezza in Versilia (Read)Sample "The ways of the sun. The school Staggia and landscape in Tuscany between Barbizon and the stain”, edited by Nadia Marchioni and organized by the Foundation and the City of Medicean Seravezza and a scientific committee chaired by Carlo Sisi.
From the day of its opening, Saturday 5 July, were already so many visitors to this exhibition that brings together for the first time over 60 works of those artists who, from 1853 in the countryside near Siena Staggia, abandoned an "academic" to the landscape, to anticipate a more personal and everyday nature that will culminate later in the movement of "macchiaioli". It is a very important group of works and some of which are from prestigious museums and galleries such as the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Palazzo Pitti, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the Pinacoteca di Brera, il Museo Stibbert, the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, the Museo Civico di Pistoia. "A display of high scientific profile with the suggestion of a" pictorial journey "new and exciting", said Carlo Sisi. This group of artists, informally defined in 1873 by Signorini as "School of Staggia" and that according to the recollections of the same artist tried "The ways of the sun", had gathered around the artists of Hungarian origin Markò junior Charles and his brother Andrew, children of that Charles Markò senior in his studio in Florence from the forties, opened a school of landscape. Along with their artists such as Emilio Donnini and Serafino De Tivoli, and then Charles Ademollo, Lorenzo Gelati, Alessandro La Volpe, Curio and Michele Nuti Rapisardi. A production until now little known but which represents a crucial moment in the renewal of landscape painting in Tuscany and who took inspiration of the French painters of the Barbizon school that, from the end of the twenties of the nineteenth century, near Paris managed, withdrawing it from the true, revolutionized landscape painting. The exhibition shows for the very first time to the public six extraordinary paintings, provided by a private lender, the protagonists of this "school", Cui bra Daubigny Charles-Françios, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Jules Dupré, Constant Troyon. The heart of the exhibition, however, is formed by the works of the "school of Staggia" where he captures in full the birth of a new sensibility: the landscape is no longer the ideal nature consists in the study according to codified laws academic, nor the search for romantic sublime effects; the emotion of the artist in the face of nature is collected in abbreviated visions of ruins or farmhouses in the countryside, on the banks of a stream, at a watering hole or a dusty road that disappears into the thick of the forest. Paintings where the button is actually alive and evoked unprecedented freedom. Works such as those of Markò, Altamura, From Tivoli, Ice cream, Donnini, The Fox and Nuti including a real rediscovery: "The castle of Staggia" by Alessandro La Volpe restored for the occasion, but also other paintings that allow us to follow the geography of the Tuscan landscape, season after season, according to the movements of these artists. The Sienese countryside, the Serchio Valley and the majestic Apuan Alps, at whose feet Seravezza, dominated by the marble quarries and natural arc of Forato, was a favorite stop, at different times, De Tivoli, Ice cream, Donnini and Markò, that shook a special bond with Seravezza. To emphasize this aspect, in the first room of the Palazzo Medici, you can see for the first time the huge canvas by Andrea Markò as scenic backdrop of the local theater which is the Challenge of Barletta.
The exhibition will remain until 7 September 2014 in the Medici Palace, Viale L. Amadei, 230 Seravezza (Read), Monday to Friday from 17 to 24; Saturday and Sunday 10.30 /12.30 and 17/24. Entrance ticket: euro interest 6,00 reduced € 4,00. Information: Foundation Medicean, office exhibitions: such. 0584.757443, sito web: www.terremedicee.it – bookshop@terremedicee.it