The dawn of a museum. Castel Sant’Angelo is told – Rome – Arte.it

Roma – The “Leap of the Quail” comes out, popular pleasure of Rome practiced by the boys at parties. Bartolomeo Pinelli, the “Painter de Trastevere”, as he remembered in a sonnet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, in 1822 he immortal him in a waterfall, together with the Sunday storytellers who speak to the “employees” of the campaign collected in Piazza Barberini.

The picturesque Rome that is depicted in the watercolors of Ettore Roesler, who instead invites you to dive through the street of the Klokken tower in Borgo, one morning of 1881, is perhaps one of the most interesting parts of the exhibition Castel Sant’Angelo 1911–1925. The Dawn of a MuseumOpen in the monumental rooms of the castle until 15 February.

Perhaps because it returns a precious visual testimony of the city that is slowly disappearing under the new regulations plans of 1873 and 1883. But also because, in an artistic context that is dominated by large historical and patriottic painters, the Roman painter has chosen to represent the home country in his daily life, popular Traditions, craftsmanship.
His watercolors symbols of a popular and authentic Rome are just a few of the testimonies that mark the path that is being promoted and created by the Institute of the Ministry of Culture Pantheon and Castel Sant’anangelo – Direction National Museums of Rome – focused on interim by Luca Mercuri. An exhibition that wants to celebrate the hundred years from the founding of the National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo, which took place with Royal Decree of 4 May 1925.

The retrospective exhibitions of Castel Sant’Angelo

The route invites you to cross the complex history of the building, now Imperial Mausoleum, now fortification, so papal residence, prison and barracks. The birth of the museum marks the moment when the monument acquires a purely cultural dimension that becomes a public institution that is committed to improving the building and the collections that owners contact all public and international public.

The origin date from 1911, when the historic exhibition is set up in Castel Sant’Angelo on the occasion of the fifty -year of the unification of Italy. Since then, the castle has become an exhibition space, inaugurated by a retrospective exhibition about Italian art that compiles archeology, figurative art, decorative art, historical institutions and thematic paths. The ambitious cultural project had to be conceived as a compelling experience that is able to breathe new life into centuries of Italian history and art, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Innovative for that time, the set -up left the chronological order to privilege a strong suggestive impact.

The exhibition Castel Sant’Angelo 1911–1925. The Dawn of a Museum – An opportunity to recall the beautiful rooms of Clement VIII, the Justice Room, to the apartment of Clement VII and the Apollo room – reminds him of that experiment, atmosphere and suggestions in a contemporary key.
“Opgevat als een eerbetoon aan de tentoonstelling van 1911, rekent het initiatief – Luca Mercuri – keert terug, in een kritische en eigentijdse sleutel, de experimentele geest van dat buitengewone tentoonstellingsbedrijf, in staat om wetenschappelijke rigor en verhalende impact, geheugen en innovatie te combineren. Behandelt niet alleen een tentoonstelling, maar van een echte culturele operatie die ook dankzij excellentieleningen centraliteit terugkeert naar de Public function of the museum: Save and at the same time share the heritage, restore the past to look at the future “.

Pietro Bracci, San Michele Arcangelo, 1736, cut and golden wood in Foglia, Rome, Castel Sant’angelo, inv. CSA IV/108

In a linear institution, where unfortunately the captions are graphically unclear, theElijah in the desert Through the Uffizi, the work of Daniele Da Volterra, a student of Michelangelo, who tributes to the “Michelagiolesca” section of 1911. View of the Tiber In Castel Sant’Angelo del Vanvitelli, from the National Gallery or Antica Art or Palazzo Barberini. After the procession of weapons and historical weapons, in ideal dialogue with the “Men in poor” of 1911, we come across the most interesting Invention prisoners Through Giovan Battista Piranesi that ideally draws inspiration from the historic prisons of Castel Sant’Angelo.

The prints, specially drawn by the direction of the Calcography for the 1911 exhibition, are now exhibited in an environment that highlights the link with the prison function of the monument, flanked by objects that evoke its history.
The story of the life of the castle extends in the Apollo room, where the large plastic by Castel Sant’Angelo was moved in 1911, in dialogue with the marble busts of Adriano and Antonino Pio, linked to the foundation and the history of the mausoleum.
A jewel is the golden wooden angel of the arms that peek from a lateral compartment, like an intimate counterpoint.