Venice will celebrate Renaissance painter Andrea Meldolla, known as Schiavone, with an exhibition containing 140 works coming from international and Italian museums debuting at the Museo Correr on November 28. Schiavone was born in 1510 in Zara, which at the time was a Venetian-ruled city in Dalmatia, and died in Venice in 1563.
The exhibition tells the story of a master of a painting technique “pittura a macchia” (stain painting) that was unusual for the time, and which evolved into the Macchiaioli school, using shadow and light to produce the core elements of a work of art and lending itself to the idea of a sort of “informal Renaissance” in Venice at the time of Schiavone’s life.
The exhibition ‘Splendors of the Renaissance in Venice. Andrea Schiavone among Parmigianino, Tintoretto and Titian’ is sponsored by the Civic Museums Foundation of Venice (MUVE) in collaboration with 24 Hour Culture, while the curation was entrusted to Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo and Lionello Puppi, under the scientific direction of Gabriella Belli, director of MUVE.
The show is of huge interest as it brings the general public’s attention back to an unconventional, enigmatic painter, and an often unsettling and controversial one, but at the same time an artist with a very modern sensibility.
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