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November 8 \u2013 January 10, 2010
\nPerugia \u2013 Italy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Italian<\/a>A very unusual art exhibition has opened in Perugia, that focuses on the birth of the movement of cultural property protection at the beginning of the 20th century against the massive acquisitions made by foreign Italian art collectors.<\/p>\n

Art works, vintage pictures, original editions of books and documents tell the visitors the story of art collecting in the Western world and the effort of the Italian lawmakers in protecting our national heritage.<\/p>\n

The symbol of the event is a 50 piece collection of Medieval ceramics made in Orvieto that was scattered across the world. For the first time in more than one hundred years they are under the same roof, the one of Palazzo Baldeschi in Perugia, Umbria.<\/p>\n

\"Italian<\/a>Around 1909 Italian art was a hot subject for European and American collectors. The pottery from Orvieto, specifically, grabbed the attention of John Pierpont Morgan, a notable collector of art objects, and Alexandre Imbert, an antique dealer.<\/p>\n

Imbert sponsored the research of a young archeologist from Orvieto and published it under the title \u201cOrvieto Pottery from the 13th and 14th centuries\u201d. The book was dedicated to JP Morgan and it has become a landmark textbook.<\/p>\n

Although it was never made clear if he acted out of love for this art or out of sheer business instinct, Imbert was admittedly the first to discover and \u201cadvertise\u201d the value and the beauty of the Medieval pottery from this region.<\/p>\n

The collection that is temporarily on display in Perugia well summarizes the characteristics of Medieval ceramics from Orvieto. Very essential graphics and a limited color range \u2013 green and brown \u2013 were used on a large number of subjects: real or fantastic animals, kings and queens, mythological heroes, flowers and plants. Typically, some pieces are adorned by decorative attachments, or protomes, in the shape of busts of humans or animals, family crests, flowers.<\/p>\n

Orvieto is now mostly\"Italian<\/a> famous for its Archaic pottery but the tradition of making clay vessels was actually born when the first inhabitants settled on the cliff dominating the Tiber valley in the south of Umbria. During the Etruscan age the local pottery production was varied and high quality. No matter which technique was used, the results were very often outstanding, especially when it came to polychrome architectural ceramics.<\/p>\n

A long tradition that came abruptly to an end at the beginning of the Renaissance, when other villages in Umbria \u2013 Deruta, Gubbio, Gualdo Tadino \u2013 became world famous for their exquisite artifacts.<\/p>\n

But the \u201cOrvieto style\u201d was not dead. It influenced the first Renaissance pottery<\/a> and inspired the research of some archeologists in the 19th century, who found the first kiln discards containing large quantities of shards that, sometimes, would fit into whole vessels. These ceramics often left Italy to find a good home in foreign Museums and collectors\u2019 shelves.<\/p>\n

Some of them are now back in their native region. It\u2019s an event we can\u2019t miss!<\/p>\n

“1909, art collection and national heritage protection. John Pierpont Morgan, Alexandre Imbert and the Medieval pottery from Orvieto”.
\nPalazzo Baldeschi al Corso
\nOpen Tue-Sun 9 am \u2013 7 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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