Uffizi: a Rubens to reflect on the absurdity of war. Lectio magistralis online

As part of the Ministry of Culture’s #museumsagainstwar campaign with which the world of culture and museums in Italy intends to express its opposition to the war and full solidarity with Ukraine, the Uffizi Galleries is offering for Tuesday, March 1 at 1 p.m. a special Facebook Live lecture on a famous painting that becomes very timely in this present.

The work in question is The Consequences of War by Pieter Paul Rubens, housed in the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti.
Delivering the special lectio magistralis Rubens at Pitti: a painting against war, which will exceptionally replace the weekly live broadcast of Uffizi On Air, will beMarco Collareta, full professor of the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa: an appointment intended to make people reflect on the absurdity of war through art.

Rubens’The Consequences of War is “an extraordinarily topical painting,” commented Uffizi Galleries Director Eike Schmidt, “capable, through its expressive power, of making us feel the pain, brutality and tragedy of war, and of making us reflect on its absurdity.”

Pictured is a detail of the painting The Consequences of War.

Uffizi: a Rubens to reflect on the absurdity of war. Lectio magistralis online

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