(toskanews) — Un Vermeer in Turin: for the first time a work by the Dutch artist arrives in the Piedmontese capital and brings that unique light, that look that has become in some way a paradigm, as well as that sense of subtle mystery typical of his painting. Palazzo Madama thus inaugurates the «Encounter with the masterpiece» cycle.
“There Woman in blue reading a letter from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until June 29th in Turin at Palazzo Madama – he told askanews Clelia Arnaldicurator of the exhibition — really offered the opportunity to study our collections and match the painting with everything that could help contextualize it.” The story focuses on seventeenth-century Dutch woman: educated figures, who read, speak, write and play.
The painting is splendid, but what is very interesting is the whole story built around it: from the life-size reproductions of Vermeer’s other paintings to the exhibition of drawings, fabrics, maps and pigments. A journey that amplifies the emotion of the single work.
«We have many activities, workshops and conferences – he explained Anna La Perlaof Educational Services — but above all a small one competition dedicated to schools in which we ask the kids to imagine the contents of the letter. What’s inside? Feelings, situations, emotions.”
There Woman in bluewith that house dress of an unforgettable color thanks to the use of lapis lazulidoesn’t stop reading his letter. We will never know his story, but at Palazzo Madama we can enter his world.
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