As a traditional Christmas exhibition from a single work, the Museo Diocesano “Carlo Maria Martini” in Milan is exhibiting Titian ’sAnnunciation from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte until Feb. 6, 2022. As part of this, the museum is organizing a series of four online meetings to bring the public closer to the work and the artist, as well as to initiate reflection on the themes addressed in the exhibition project.
The first meeting was held on Nov. 15 by art historian Stefano Zuffi, who talked about the direct testimonies that poets, writers, antiquarians and artists have left about him. The next meeting will be held on Nov. 22: Diocesan Museum director Nadia Righi will go over the iconographic theme of the Annunciation and its evolution throughout the history of art, then focus on the works of Titian, his style and meanings.
On Nov. 29, it will be the turn of Arianna Piazza of the Diocesan Museum’s Educational Services: in the meeting entitled Around Titian we will approach the artist with caution, thus grasping the recurring themes and the scope of inventions, without being dazzled by the complexity of his painting. The figure of Titian will be addressed through some masterpieces and through the interpretations of great critics. Finally, the last meeting will be an introduction to the exhibition Titian and the Image of Woman: Beauty, Love, Poetry, which will open in Milan in February. Sylvia Ferino Pagden, curator of the exhibition, will address the theme of female beauty in Titian’s works.
All online meetings take place on Mondays on the Zoom platform. They will start at 6 p.m. and plan to last one hour. The entire cycle of meetings costs 10 euros (it is not possible to purchase the individual meeting) and only online purchase through the electronic ticket office is active.
With the purchase of the cycle Around Titian’s Annunciation you can help support the Museum’s Twentieth Anniversary initiatives: a series of celebratory initiatives strongly identifying and indicative of the path taken from its foundation to the present. Indeed, during the period from November 2021 to May 2022, there will be a series of exhibitions, side events, and in-depth discussions dedicated to the museum, its history, its collections, and its activities in the first two decades of its opening.
Image: Titian, Annunciation, detail (c. 1558; oil on canvas, 280 x 193 cm; Naples, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, on deposit from the church of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples)
The Diocesan Museum of Milan offers a series of online meetings on Titian's Annunciation |
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