Raphael's Umbrian art and legacy revives in Perugia

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, the CariPerugia Arte Foundation and the“Pietro Vannucci” Academy of Fine Arts present the exhibition Raphael in Umbria and His Legacy in the Academy, which can be visited from September 18, 2020 to January 6, 2021 at Palazzo Baldeschi in Perugia. The exhibition is part of the Perugia celebrates Raphael itinerary and is part of the richer Raphael in Umbria program.

The halls of the palace will be animated between the real and the virtual: Raphael will arrive in an immersive digital version and the public will even be able to see him in dialogue with his father and Perugino. In addition, all his works related to Umbria, now preserved in the world’s most important museums, will be on view in Perugia. And his artistic legacy will be told through the production of the great masters whose inspiration he was.

The exhibition will be divided into two sections: the first curated by Francesco Federico Mancini with the direction of the Fondazione CariPerugia Arte and the contribution of the Soprintendenza Archivistica dell’Umbria e delle Marche and the Archivio di Stato di Perugia, the second with the subtitle L’Accademia di Perugia e Raffaello: From Minardi and Wicar to the Twentieth Century realized by the Academy of Fine Arts “Pietro Vannucci” of Perugia and curated by Alessandra Migliorati, Stefania Petrillo and Saverio Ricci, with the coordination of Giovanni Manuali, curator of the Academy’s Assets.

There will be animmersive experience at Palazzo Baldeschi, where it will be possible to admire all the Umbrian works of the Urbino painter, while also exploring their details: the St. Nicholas of Tolentino Altarpiece (now in fragments and virtually reconstructed through some of Raphael’s autograph drawings and an 18th-century copy), the Gonfalone of the Trinity, the Mond Crucifixion, the Marriage of the Virgin, the Colonna Altarpiece, the Oddi Altarpiece, the Ansidei Altarpiece, the Madonna Conestabile, the San Severo fresco, the Baglioni Deposition, the Madonna and Child with Saints, and theCoronation of the Virgin.

Thanks to multimedia effects, in another room of the palace, starting with famous portraits, actors in Renaissance costumes will bring the painter on stage through two dialogues: one with his father Giovanni Santi at Perugino’s workshop, the other with Perugino in a comparison of the two masterpieces of The Marriage of the Virgin.

In addition, three important works of the Umbrian Renaissance belonging to the collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia and created by three masters from whom Raphael was inspired and with whom he related when he came to Umbria: Perugino’s Madonna and Child and Two Cherubs, Pinturicchio ’s Madonna and Child with St. John by Pinturicchio, and Luca Signorelli’s St. Stephen Stoned.

In contrast, the exhibition The Academy of Perugia and Raphael: from Minardi and Wicar to the Twentieth Century is divided into four thematic and chronological sections to show how in the nineteenth century Perugia was the epicenter along with Rome of the purist current and the return to religiously inspired art thanks to Tommaso Minardi. After a series of self-portraits of the artists who were inspired by Raphael, the exhibition will address the cult of Raphael between classicism and purism, with works from the school of Baldassarre Orsini, Tommaso Minardi and Wicar; Raphael docet: the copy and the invention, which traces the long season of the Perugia Academy that flourished on the legacy left by Minardi; and Raphael in the applied arts and wall decoration, with works from the early 19th century to the early 20th century.

For more info: www.fondazionecariperugiaarte.it

Raphael's Umbrian art and legacy revives in Perugia

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