Anghiari, a medieval Tuscan village famous for the pitched battle in the fifteenth century between Florentines and Milanese, becomes the city of women. It does so with an exhibition that, until next 8 March, will populate four spaces of its historic center with dozens of works depicting the female image from Renaissance to date. Women between myth, biblical and evangelical representations and much more.
Anghiari city of women
Stories of Women, this is the title of the exhibition consisting of paintings, drawings and sculptures, located between the Battaglia and Anghiari Museum, the Palazzo Taglieschi Museum, the Church of Sant'Agostino and Palazzo Pretorio. Works that synthesize five centuries of Western culture through the iconographic representations of Eva, Maria, Maria Maddalena, Santa Caterina, and again Leda, Medea, Penelope (just to name a few), made by great masters such as Michelangelo, Dürer, Jacopo della Quercia, Giovanni dal Ponte, Goya, Manet. All this up to the contemporary recovery of more archaic figurative forms of femininity carried out by the Romagna sculptor Ilario Fioravanti. The result is an exhaustive story in images between historiography, legend, allegories, symbolism, spirituality.
Created by the Municipality together with the Museo della Battaglia and Anghiari with the curatorship of art historians Benedetta Spadaccini and Gabriele Mazzi, the exhibition was born, not surprisingly, from the idea of two women. They are Alberica Barbolani da Montauto and Ilaria Lorenzini, respectively councilor for culture and tourism of the Tuscan city. “As always happens - explains Alberica Barbolani da Montauto - the events arise from long periods of preparation, reflection and study. In this case there are many factors that combine to compose this exhibition, the first of which is the trust in dialogue and in the search for common objectives. Goals that, when they are noble, are found ”.
(Photo Facebook Museum of the battle of Anghiari)
