Leggere Palazzo Te con la LIS
Federica2025-04-07T10:57:33+02:00Il tema dell’inclusività nei luoghi della cultura invita le istituzioni a porsi delle domande e a ricercare le soluzioni più idonee e contemporanee per poter pervenire all’abbattimento effettivo delle barriere architettoniche sia funzionali che cognitive. Proprio in quest’ottica Palazzo TE ha deciso di declinare i nuovi contenuti realizzati per l’accoglienza ai visitatori e [...]
Jacopo Zucchi, Cupid and Psyche
Federica2025-04-01T15:21:11+02:00The sole painting signed by Zucchi and associated with the marriage between Ferdinando I de’ Medici and Christine of Lorraine depicts the moment in Apuleius’ Fable of Psyche when the young woman embarks on a quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious lover who visits her without revealing himself. A drop of boiling [...]
Aby Warburg in Mantova. Ovid Austellung, 1927
Federica2025-04-01T15:28:02+02:00The photograph of the Ovid exhibition (Ovid Austellung) held by the German art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) in the elliptical room of the Warburg-Haus library in Hamburg serves as a useful basis for discussion on the exhibition layout and its dialogue with the frescoes, images and events at Palazzo Te. Held between 29 January [...]
Tintoretto, Minerva e Arachne
Federica2025-04-01T15:23:22+02:00The so-called loves of Jupiter are the subject of a tapestry woven by the skilful Arachne, the central character at the heart of a myth concerning artistic creation: ‘Arachne was famous not because of class or lineage, but because she was an artist’, writes Ovid, who praises her remarkable craftsmanship and likens the art [...]