ROma, 30 Apr. (askanews) -The Trinità dei Monti staircase turns 300 and the Keats-Shelley house in Piazza di Spagna, which acts as a fifth to the famous monument, celebrates them with the exhibition “The Spanish Steps, Revisited”. From 1st May to 1 November, the house-museum offers the opportunity to retrace the process of the design of the famous staircase created by Francesco De Sanctis, through projects, drawings, engravings of architects such as Giacomo della Porta, Bernini, Plautilla Bricci. And in the rooms of John Keats’ last home at the same time the works of 23 contemporary artists, called to reinterpret the staircase that connects the church of the SS. Trinità dei Monti and Piazza di Spagna.
The curator Luca Caddia explained: “In the historical section we show the unrealized projects that from the mid -16th century to the first quarter of the eighteenth century were presented to the Capitoline authorities and the king of France, and all the ephemeral apparatuses that had somehow interested the slope of the Pincio, especially in the second half of the seventeenth century”.
And among the paintings, the manuscripts, the objects of the British poets and the projects of the past are the works created for this exhibition by contemporary artists such as Elisabetta Benassi, Stefano Arienti, Elena Bellantoni, Alfredo Pirri, Cesare Pietroiusti, Margherita Morgantin, T-Yong Chung. Each of them has spent time in the home house, a privileged observation point of the staircase, as the curator Fulvio Chimento explained: “The exhibition for the contemporary part, this in my opinion is the very interesting aspect, is a brainstorming, is a horizontal dialogue, in the light of the sun, of a series of possibilities of intervention on the staircase, to make this place alive and pulsate”.
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