"The fashion of Paris, until May 20 at the Museum of Palazzo Mirto, Palermo, brings together a selection of prints from the collections of the Palace Abatellis graphics and some artifacts and testimonies printed in close relation to the theme of the prints on display, which as the subject of Paris fashion plates.
The 35 works to be taken into account from 1836 to 1840, taken from magazines of the time Palermo. The phenomenon of the spread of numerous magazines, including "Pastime for the ladies," "The fairy gallant" and "The Oretea" which openly sought their audience among women, in the sense of encouraging a wider section of society time education in the arts as a tool for civil development, is already known in the aspects of bibliographic, literary, art historical and sociological.
Compared to such large distances that are framed in the critical debate on the pedagogical role that culture recognized romantic art, the exhibition of the figures provides an opportunity to draw attention to one of the most specific and ephemeral at the time considered ' Procedure for these publications, which were peculiar to the culture of the time.
The figures in "Paris Fashion" were added in support of individual magazine issues and, together with the chronicles of the theater, were in fact an important opening on the guidelines of taste, with careful look outside the island. Thanks to the cooperation of the Central Library of Palermo, which houses the originals of the journals from which the prints are from the subject of the exhibition, you can display reproductions of the originals of the journals themselves.
From the archive of the Filangieri family of San Marco, still preserved in the Palazzo Mirto, showed interesting evidence documenting the orientation of taste by the age of Palermo to the lifestyle of the French capital. 
The 35 works to be taken into account from 1836 to 1840, taken from magazines of the time Palermo. The phenomenon of the spread of numerous magazines, including "Pastime for the ladies," "The fairy gallant" and "The Oretea" which openly sought their audience among women, in the sense of encouraging a wider section of society time education in the arts as a tool for civil development, is already known in the aspects of bibliographic, literary, art historical and sociological.
Compared to such large distances that are framed in the critical debate on the pedagogical role that culture recognized romantic art, the exhibition of the figures provides an opportunity to draw attention to one of the most specific and ephemeral at the time considered ' Procedure for these publications, which were peculiar to the culture of the time.
The figures in "Paris Fashion" were added in support of individual magazine issues and, together with the chronicles of the theater, were in fact an important opening on the guidelines of taste, with careful look outside the island. Thanks to the cooperation of the Central Library of Palermo, which houses the originals of the journals from which the prints are from the subject of the exhibition, you can display reproductions of the originals of the journals themselves.
From the archive of the Filangieri family of San Marco, still preserved in the Palazzo Mirto, showed interesting evidence documenting the orientation of taste by the age of Palermo to the lifestyle of the French capital.
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