Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Exhibition in Como: Portrait of a Lady - Fabric, fashion, painting in the nineteenth and twentieth century

A date with fashion & culture nell'affascintantissima location of Villa Olmo Como from April 1 to June 24, 2011, The Studio Museum of Textiles at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, the exhibition Boldini and the Belle Epoque will devote an exhibition and a series Meeting of the female figures that have characterized the decades-at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century, addressing the issue in several ways.

The Lord of mostraRitratti-fabric, fashion and painting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries present nuclei of tissues, groups of clothes and accessories from the collections of MUST, the Silk Museum and private collections Italian. An interesting aspect of the show is that the tissues will be present in the portraits painted by the must live through the archives from private collections.

A unique opportunity to see other times as the fabrics and printed silks, ribbons, embroidered tulle, lace, veils, trimmings and more. Furthermore, a series of conferences bringing to light the female figures of unquestioned elegance that have been able to gain notoriety for their beauty, femininity, but also a strong personality.

So we'll see figures of elegant portraits painted by Tissot of the Italian bourgeoisie League, De Nitti, Morelli, the Parisian Madame Greffulhe, immortalized by Proust's Recherche in the guise of the Duchess of Guermantes, the Emilie Flöge Vienna, Klimt's muse, the Marchesa Luisa Casati Stampa, which was the nomad of the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, painted a portrait of Donna Franca Florio Boldini and descendant of a family of Sicilian, nicknamed Star of Italy by Kaiser Wilhelm II and the only by Vate.

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