Exhibition Envy--Painting and Drawing like a True Master: The Talent of Elisabetta Sirani
The Talent of Elisabetta Sirani
Uffizi
Florence, Italy
March 6-June 10, 2018
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Before I get to the overview from the exhibition's website, I must say that I am deeply jealous of anyone who gets to see this show. If this means you, let us all know, so we can eat our hearts out.
An exhibition celebrating the extraordinary
talent of the 17th century bolognese painter Elisabetta Sirani who, thanks also to a prodigious rapidity of
execution, made a great name for herself both for the ease with which she
worked, as well as the sureness of touch which is as evident in her sketches and
incisions as it is in her canvases.
Thirty Four works sourced from both public and private collections all over Italy, as well as the Self Portrait as an Allegory of Painting, from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, which are now on display in the Sala Edoardo Detti and in the Sala del Camino, on the first floor of the Galleria degli Uffizi until June 10th.
The Director of the
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Eike Schmidt has pointed out that what “is striking in
her paintings is the rather noble, even heroic quality of the female figures:
Virtuous figures who appear to be warriors (like those painted for
cardinal Leopoldo de’ Medici in 1664), saints, virgins, mothers and Madonnas,
all of which are distinguished by an intrinsic nobility, and which display an uncompromising gravitas.”
Links:
Uffizi
Photo: Portia Wounding Her Thigh by Elisabetta Sirani, Sotheby's
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