The Experience of Art. Virginia Bertone talks about Antonio Fontanesi
26.10.2023 from 18:00 to 19:30
The Experience of Art
26 October 2023, 6pm* – 7.30pm
Virginia Bertone, I dipinti di Antonio Fontanesi nella Collezione Cerruti
Sala delle Orchidee – Villa Cerruti
On 26 October 2023, from 6pm to 7.30pm, Virginia Bertone, Chief Conservator of the permanent collections of the GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin and Managing Director of the Palazzo Madama – Civic Museum of Ancient Art of Turin, will focus on the group of five paintings by Antonio Fontanesi, one of the greatest innovators of landscape painting of the 19th century. The works collected by Cerruti will allow us to retrace his entire career.
The conferences, for a maximum of 16 people, are held in the Sala delle Orchidee of Villa Cerruti and include a special visit to the Villa.
Reservation is required on the page https://www.castellodirivoli.org/tickets/#
The cost of the full ticket is € 26.50; reduced ticket € 19.50 (journalists, groups of 3 or more people, Abbonamento Musei Piemonte Valle d’Aosta); € 10.00 for university students up to the age of 26 and equivalent institutions. The ticket includes admission to Castello di Rivoli which can be visited on the same day, before the meeting. The Museum closes at 5.30pm, but it is possible to go to the Ticket Office in the Manica Lunga until 5.45pm.
The shuttle to the Cerruti Collection leaves at 5.55pm from the square in front of Castello di Rivoli.
To collect the ticket, it is necessary to go to the Castello di Rivoli Ticket Office at least 15 minutes before the departure of the shuttle.
* Tickets must be collected by 5.45pm at Castello di Rivoli Ticket Office
Virginia Bertone
Chief curator of the permanent collections, managing director of the Biblioteca d’Arte e Archivio Fotografico, GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, and managing director, Palazzo Madama – Museo d’Arte Antica, Turin. She graduated in Medieval Art History under Enrico Castelnuovo at the Università degli Studi di Torino. She has also studied 19th- and early 20th-century art and has curated exhibitions on Italian landscape painting, Massimo d’Azeglio and Antonio Fontanesi.
[Image: Antonio Fontanesi, Autunno (Autumn), c. 1874-1875, Collection Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte, long-term loan Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, ph. Alessandro Fiamingo]