Also this year La Milanesiana, conceived and directed by Elisabetta Sgarbi, achieves success at the Teatro Ventidio Basso in Ascoli Piceno with three events held from Wednesday to Friday.
In the first event Vittorio Sgarbi spoke with Paolo Del Debbio and Stefano Papetti (curator of the Municipal Collections of Ascoli Piceno), for an evening titled after Sgarbi’s publication ’The Closest Sky. The Mountain in Art’ (La nave di Teseo), a journey through art history, following in the footsteps of René de Chateaubriand, to tell about nature and the mountain as interpreted by the greatest artists, from the 14th century to today.
From the first painter to depict it, Giotto, to the Dolomites in the paintings of Mantegna, from the purity of Masolino’s landscapes to the harsh views of Leonardo, where rocks frame timeless virgins, to the ethereal Alpine watercolors of Dürer traveling from Venice to Germany.
Famous and lesser-known masterpieces
Alongside the celebrated masters, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Turner, Friedrich, Sgarbi recalls masterpieces by lesser-known artists, such as Ubaldo Oppi, Afro Basaldella, Tullio Garbari.
A journey crossing the Alps and other peaks of Italy told through the realism of Courbet and the symbolism of Segantini, in the colors of Van Gogh, in the expressionism of Munch and the ghosts of Böklin, in the insights of Italo Mus, Dino Buzzati, Zoran Mušič.
The awarding of the commemorative medal
The meeting was opened by Francesca Filauri, president of the Cultural-mente Insieme Association. Sabrina Colle read excerpts from the book ’The Closest Sky. The Mountain in Art’. Music by Hildegard de Stefano on violin.
The Commemorative Medal due to Second Lieutenant Giuseppe Sgarbi for his participation in the war campaigns 1940-43, within the Historical-Cultural project: ’The war memory of Italians in the world’, was presented to his children Vittorio and Elisabetta Sgarbi.
