sabato 16 marzo 2013

Visiting Rome ...The Quirinal Stables and the exhibition of Titian


This building, which hosts important exhibitions, was built from 1722-1732 and marks the Quirinale Palace and that of the Consulta, in the large square is the Fontana die Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, with the Obelisk. The Palace, whose function was to remittance of horses and carriages, keeps building original from 1999 with exhibitions of national and international exhibitions such as the exhibition on Titian from 5 March to 16 June 2013. 

Titian was born around 1490 in Pieve di Cadore, working with Giorgione ad Castelfranco soon learned the painting techniques and from 1510 to 1511 in Padua with frescoes of the Scoular Del Santo is considered a master of the most promising. Titian was required in the courts of the Po, the Este, Della Rovere, but also by the Emperor Charles V and later by his son Philip II for his style of painting and his works will live in Venice, where he died August 27, 1576 and was buried in the Church of Santa Maria dei Frari. Today we can admire his works at the Quirinal Stables and visiting the exhibition will retrace the most salient phases of this great painter. Are preserved and exhibited forty works from various Italian and foreign cities including: La Bella at the Concert (Palazzo Pitti), the portrait of Charles V with a dog (Museo del Prado Madrid), Danae (Capodimonte), Flora (Uffizi), Self-senile (Museo del Prado Madrid), the Pala Gozzi (Ancona), Allegory of Time governed by Prudence (National Gallery London), Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese (Washington National), the flaying of Marsyas (Kromeriz Czech Republic), Man with a Glove (Louvre). In the Quirinal Stables there are spaces for: library, cafeteria, gift shop, insights on the current exhibitions. To admire the magnificent view of Rome you have to climb to the top floor, a window will quietly range of the Eternal City.



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