Elena Volpato, curator of the exhibition “Ripensando il Romanticismo nell’arte contemporanea”, in conversation with Prof. Claudio Zambianchi
The true invention of European Romanticism is landscape. The generation of Northern Romanticism profoundly challenged history painting; the landscape genre, until then considered inferior, was given new purposes and new possibilities.
Landscape painting became capable of addressing the same themes concerning human destiny, politics and morality that had previously been considered the exclusive domain of the highest genre in the academic hierarchy. The great Romantic landscape is Northern: German, with Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge; and English, with Joseph M.W. Turner and John Constable.
The conference, lasting approximately one hour, will begin with these artists and draw comparisons with examples of French painting and works from other countries.
26 June – 6:30 p.m.
Free admission.
