The Carracci Gallery “Away” To Louvre – Mondo – Arte.it

World – “The privileges of beauty are huge” He called an ecstatic Jean Cocteau who visited the Carracci Gallery, Temple of Wonder and Flagship of Palazzo Farnese in Rome.
Yet the fame of this extraordinary treasure chest commissioned to Annibale Carracci by Cardinal Odoardo, in view of the wedding of his brother Ranuccio Farnese with Margherita Aldobrandini, nephew of Clement VIII, in 1597, have been crossing the Alps becoming an inspiration model for numerous Settings Throughhout Europe, from the Gallery of the Mirrors of Versailles to the Foyer of the Opera Garnier.
The Gallery Painted by Annibale Carracci, By His Brother Agostino and Their Students, With His Magnificent Time of 20 Meters Frescud With Mythological Subjects Tasks from Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Now Relives at The Louvre Museum Thatt it, A Pussy It, A Exhibition Using an Important Collection of Preparatory Designs, From the Rapid Sketch That Outlines The Very First Ideas of the Artist, Cartons of Several meters per side, on which the drawing is in scale with the Fresco.

Very sought after by the most demanding collectors, these drawings soon became authentic symbols of prestige and power. Nowadays, the Louvre Museum, heir of the French Royal Collections, houses the largest collection in the world of these drawings, together with the British royal collections, of which 25 works in Paris were expected, specifically for the exhibition.

Annibale Carracci, study for Satyr sitting in the left corner of the Frame of Polypheme and Galatée, Paris, Louvre Museum, Department Graphic Arts © Louvre Museum, Dist. Grandpa Palaisrmn / Suzanne Nagy

The exhibition will repeat De Charme after the Carracci Gallery, who also presents a replica of the Farnese Gallery for the first time, recently restored, commissioned by Louis XIV in the now disappeared Palazzo Delle Tuileries. Visitors will meet personally with an exceptional collection of large cartoons, designed by the first inhabitants of the Académie de France in Rome, who proves, through the vastness of this copying company, the admiration that revolves around the famous Carracci gallery.

Another goal of the path will be to present the fascinating personality of Annibale to the public, in addition to the vault of the gallery, the Camerino ceiling, the small room that the artist has devoted to experimenting his ideas.
After the drawings for the gallery, they will emphasize the efforts of stylistic and intellectual renewal for the dressing room, in addition to other works by Annibale that were carried out before his departure to Rome, supported by a forty -year -old who had no longer dyed behind it.