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With Poetry and Painting in the 17th Century. Giovan Battista Marino and the Marvelous Passion, the exhibition scheduled from November 19, 2024, to February 9, 2025, the Galleria Borghese explores, through an original project, the connections between poetry and painting, sacred and profane, literature, art, and power in the early 17th century.<\/p>\n

Following the path offered by the\u00a0texts of Giovan Battista Marino<\/b>\u00a0(1569-1625), the exhibition traces a journey through the great Renaissance and Baroque art, from\u00a0Titian<\/b>\u00a0to\u00a0Tintoretto<\/b>, from\u00a0Correggio\u00a0<\/b>to the\u00a0Carracci<\/b>, from\u00a0Rubens<\/b>\u00a0to\u00a0Poussin<\/b>, celebrating the\u00a0greatest Italian poet of the 17th century<\/b>\u00a0and his 'marvelous' passion for painting.<\/p>\n

Curated by\u00a0Emilio Russo, Patrizia Tosini<\/b>, and\u00a0Andrea Zezza<\/b>, the exhibition focuses on the golden age of the Baroque\u00a0in painting and literature<\/b>, a period during which the\u00a0relationship between the two arts<\/b>\u00a0finds perhaps its highest expression in the life and works of the poet.<\/p>\n

Known for his poem\u00a0Adone<\/i>\u00a0(1623), centered on the love story between Adonis and Venus, Giovan Battista Marino is also the author of\u00a0La Galeria<\/i>\u00a0(1619), a collection of 624 poetic compositions dedicated to an equal number of works of art, divided between Paintings and Sculptures, Fables and Histories. This collection was crafted with a\u00a0play of reflections<\/b>\u00a0and a continuous expressive challenge between poetic texts and works of art, real or imaginary.<\/p>\n

The life and literary production of Giovan Battista Marino are closely tied to the masters and masterpieces of early 17th-century figurative art, with whom he came into contact in the intellectual circles and most important courts of the time: that of Matteo di Capua in Naples, of Pope Clement VIII Aldobrandini in Rome, of Giovan Carlo Doria and Giovan Vincenzo Imperiali in Genoa, and of Carlo Emanuele I in Turin. In these environments, surrounded by rich collections, the poet\u00a0established direct relationships with artists<\/b>\u00a0such as Cavalier d'Arpino, Bernardo Castello, Caravaggio, Agostino Carracci, Ludovico Cigoli, and Palma il Giovane.<\/p>\n

In 1615, persecuted by the\u00a0Inquisition<\/b>, Giovan Battista Marino was forced to leave Italy, finding refuge in Paris at the court of Louis XIII and Maria de' Medici, where he remained until 1623. There, he met\u00a0Nicolas Poussin<\/b>, for whom he wrote a kind of letter of introduction that the artist would take with him upon his arrival in Rome. With this symbolic passage, the final phase of the poet's life becomes linked to the pivotal Roman sojourn of the great French painter.<\/p>\n

With its unique collection of masterpieces initiated by Cardinal Scipione Borghese in the early decades of the 17th century, the care of the works, and the distinctly Baroque scenographic display,\u00a0Galleria Borghese<\/b>\u00a0represents the ideal\u00a0context<\/b>\u00a0to revisit the figure of Giovan Battista Marino as a poet and his relationship with the figurative arts, and how, in the 17th century, the latter began to mutually influence literary production.<\/p>\n

Divided into\u00a0five sections<\/b>, the exhibition path opens with several\u00a0great masterpieces by Correggio<\/b>,\u00a0Titian, and Tintoretto<\/b>, collected in the section titled\u00a0Poetry and Painting in the 17th Century. Introduction to Giovan Battista Marino<\/i><\/b>, which introduces the viewer to the\u00a0relationship<\/b>\u00a0between\u00a0poetic tradition<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0figurative tradition<\/b>\u00a0already present during the 16th century. This relationship becomes the lens through which to observe Baroque art, of which Giovan Battista Marino, with his interests and transversal connections, was an exemplary representative.<\/p>\n

In the section\u00a0La Galeria and Giovan Battista Marino's Dialogue with Artists<\/i><\/b>, dedicated to the collection\u00a0La Galeria<\/i>, the exhibition retraces Giovan Battista Marino's relationship with the great art of the Renaissance and Baroque through a close comparison between paintings, sculptures, and their literary transpositions. Here, masterpieces by\u00a0Luca Cambiaso<\/b>,\u00a0Titian, Palma the young, Peter Paul Rubens, Cavalier d'Arpino, Alessandro Turchi, and Pietro Bernini<\/b>\u00a0are displayed, all artists in some way connected to the life and writings of Giovan Battista Marino.<\/p>\n

In the section on\u00a0The Massacre of the Innocents<\/i><\/b>, named after one of the poet's masterpieces, another theme addressed by Giovan Battista Marino is explored, starting from the figurative tradition. The work was published posthumously only in 1632, but at the beginning of the century, the biblical theme had also regained popularity in painting, thanks to large-scale works created by, among others,\u00a0Guido Reni, Giovanni Battista Paggi, Nicolas Poussin, and Pietro Testa<\/b>, who grappled with the representation of a horror capable of evoking wonder.<\/p>\n

The section titled\u00a0Adonis between Sacred and Profane<\/i><\/b>\u00a0collects works related to the myth of Adonis\u2014a beautiful youth loved by Venus, destined for a tragic end\u2014who is the protagonist of the homonymous poem by Marino, which can be considered\u00a0the symbolic work of 17th-century<\/b>\u00a0Italian literature, a triumph of poetry that blends sacred and profane elements, constructed as tableaux or arrangements of poetic pictures. This section features masterpieces by\u00a0Palma the young, Scarsellino, and Poussin<\/b>\u00a0related to the myth, works that range from the most sensual outcomes, characteristic of the love story between Adonis and the goddess, to the more tragic aspects concerning his death and the lamentation of Venus, which also subtly reference sacred representations.<\/p>\n

The final section of the exhibition,\u00a0Farewell: The Apotheosis of Giovan Battista Marino and the Discovery of Nicolas Poussin<\/i><\/b>, pays tribute to the most significant legacy of Giovan Battista Marino's artistic passion: the insight into the greatness of the young\u00a0Nicolas Poussin<\/b>. The meeting between the two at the court of Maria de\u2019 Medici in Paris is the premise for Poussin's journey to Rome and the subsequent creation of several works such as\u00a0The Lamentation over the Dying Adonis<\/i>,\u00a0The Parnassus<\/i>, and\u00a0The Inspiration of the Poet<\/i>, all clearly linked to the\u00a0celebration of Marino's poetry.<\/b><\/p>\n

With\u00a0Poetry and Painting<\/i>\u00a0in the 17th Century: Giovan Battista Marino and the Marvelous Passion<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0Galleria Borghese<\/b>\u00a0invites the public to explore the fascinating intertwining of words and images that captivated Giovan Battista Marino, leading to the rediscovery of the\u00a0seminal legacy of a scholar<\/b>\u00a0who was able to weave together the beauty of poetry and the allure of the figurative arts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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