The countdown has started for the end of Il Settecento a Verona, the exhibition that since November 26th and still until April 9th introduces its visitors to the rich artistic period of the eighteenth century in the city of Romeo and Juliet. The showing entitled "The nobility of painting" focuses on the contribution to Italian art that has resulted from the Settecento in the city and how Verona differentiated itself once again from the powerful influence of Venice.
In the Verona art galleries of Palazzo della Gran Guardia it is therefore possible to discover the work of artists from city like Antonio Rotrari and Giambettino Cignaroli, to whom organizers have dedicated a vast space where visitors can see paintings, designs and old documents that help reconstruct the story of art in Verona.
Among these works, some of the portraits that made Rotari famous and that won him not only Catherine the Great , Empress of Russia's respect, but also that of the vast majority of the European artistic community." The portraits of young females showcased in the exhibition surprise for its capacity of transmitting the feelings and the various models' state of mind.
Il Settecento a Verona also dedicates a special space to the Venetian artist Giambattista Tiepolo, one of the most significant representatives of the art from Italy in the century of lights and who exported the prosperity of Italian art in countries like Spain.
Within the Tiepolo room it is particularly interesting to see the virtual representation of "Trionfo di Ercole", Hercules' Triumph, a fresco painted in 1760 that was destroyed during the Second World War that has been rebuilt thanks to photographic documentation and new technologies. The fresco is now visible as it should have been in the ceiling of the Palazzo Canossa in Verona, its original place.
The Veneto Region was, in fact, one of the most important centers in all of Italy for the development of this movement that overcame the previous period starting in the seventeenth century when the region started differentiating itself from the rest of the country mostly in terms of color palettes.
Another section is dedicated to the genre of veduta, a movement originated in the 1500 that flourished in the eighteenth century and that meant the upgrade of landscapes from background image to true stars of paintings that are now showcased as some of the main works of art and what to see in Verona guides.
Among these, some of the works painted by Luca Carlevarijs and Bernardo Bellotto.
The exhibition that is going to remain open until April 9th in Verona is one of extreme importance for the richness of works it shows, and is of mandatory visit for lovers art lovers who find themselves in Verona during the months of Spring.
