Guido Cagnacci\u2019s \u201cDeath of Cleopatra\u201d, from the Pinacoteca di Brera, will be on show at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York until 19 January. The work by Cagnacci, a painter from the Baroque period (1601-1663), is characterised by the use of the chiaroscuro technique and by the sensuality released by most of his subjects. He was one of the painters of reference of the Seicento, playing a central role in depicting great devotional stories. But Cagnacci\u2019s ingeniousness did not stop here. The painter\u2019s talent reached its apex with the so-called \u201cquadroni\u201d (\u201cgiant pictures\u201d) of Forl\u00ec and the Glory of Saints Valerian and Mercurial, in which he created heavenly scenes with crystal-clear skies, impossible albeit real, in which space is dilated into a mental dimension capable of containing the overwhelming physicality of the figures. Cagnacci is not widely known outside the restricted circle of museum curators, collectors, and scholars. However, he is nonetheless a great artist and the fact that three important cultural institutions in New York have decided to host three of his masterpieces is reason enough to celebrate. The \u201cDeath of Cleopatra\u201d is the painting on show at the Italian Cultural Institute while the Norton Simon Museum has exceptionally lent the \u201cScolding of Mary Magdalene\u201d to the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum displays another version of the Death of Cleopatra.<\/p>\n
The exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York is part of the project to rediscover and shed new light on the artistic production of Guido Cagnacci for the American public, which began in October with the exhibition curated by the Frick Collection of the \u201cScolding of Mary Magdalene\u201d from the Norton Simon Art Foundation of Pasadena. The exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York follows the painting\u2019s recent restoration by Letizia Lodi and was organised in conjunction with the Pinacoteca di Brera. It will be supplemented with a publication edited by Lisa Hilton and Letizia Lodi and published by the Skira Editore publishing house. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guido Cagnacci\u2019s \u201cDeath of Cleopatra\u201d, from the Pinacoteca di Brera, will be on show at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York until 19 January. The work by Cagnacci, a painter from the Baroque period (1601-1663), is characterised by the use of the chiaroscuro technique and by the sensuality released by most of his subjects. […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[397,32],"class_list":["post-52023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-america-settentrionale","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}