Giovan Battista Marino (1569-1625) was one of the most important poets of the 17th century, known for his great work Adone (1623) and for La Galeria (1619), a collection of hundreds of poems composed in relation to just as many works of art.
\nHe bore witness to the greatest art collections of his age, sparking a lifelong admiration which he carried through Italy and France, before returning to Rome in 1623, at the height of his fame. It was a dramatic return, however, due to the accusations of heresy which forced the poet into the
\nhumiliation of a public retraction and exile to Naples, where he died in 1625. In this eventful life, Marino crossed paths with the leading artistic protagonists of his age, forming relationships with many artists from whom he collected drawings and paintings. The aim of this exhibition is to
\nuse the lens of Marino\u2019s verses to reveal the relationship between art and literature in the early 17th century, the very moment that Baroque literature was born.
\nThe exhibition also endeavours to relate Marino\u2019s ideal collection with the one Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577-1633) began to assemble. The poet and the cardinal \u2013 both art lovers and among the most influential people of their age \u2013 collected and commissioned paintings from all over Italy, despite the distance between them due to their enormous social difference. Nonetheless, the two did not have a good relationship. Marino tried many times to endear himself to the powerful cardinal, but Borghese, unable to tolerate the erotic nature of Marino\u2019s poems, remained one of his key adversaries and one of those primarily responsible \u00a0or the Inquisition\u2019s accusations which would lead to his condemnation in 1623. As presented in this exhibition, the enmity between the cardinal and the poet dissolves in the name of their mutual passion for the splendour of works of art\u2014described, celebrated, and collected.<\/p>\n
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Giovan Battista Marino (1569-1625) was one of the most important poets of the 17th century, known for his great work Adone (1623) and for La Galeria (1619), a collection of hundreds of poems composed in relation to just as many works of art. He bore witness to the greatest art collections of his age, sparking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-approfondimenti"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n