Vittoriano
The VIVE Institute offers its Sunday free-of-charge visitors a cycle of visits, different every month, so that each time they can admire different works and aspects of the museum's many collections. Each cycle includes four different routes, of half an hour each, and focuses on three works chosen as particularly illustrative. An invitation to return each month, by taking advantage of the free Sundays, to discover more treasures and explore new themes each time.
This month concludes the short cycle dedicated to the stories of private collectors who have decided to donate all or part of their art collections to the Italian State. This is the case of Prince Ladislao Odescalchi (founder of the town of Ladispoli and a great lover of antique weapons), the commendatore Gustavo Corvisieri (a Roman antiquarian with a profound knowledge of ceramics) and illustrious foreigners such as his friends Enrichetta Hertz (to whom belonged the beautiful antique head in the Altoviti Room), Ludwig Mond and Frida Löwenthal (who once owned Jacopo Sansovino's sketches of the Stories of St. Mark). Different are the vicissitudes of the Museum founded in the Collegio Romano by the Jesuit father Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680): a veritable chamber of wonders where medieval art treasures such as the small pyrite sculpture attributed to Nicola Pisano or the Byzantine ivory casket with the Stories of David could be admired, as well as those of the dramatic dispersion of the Stroganoff collection (from which comes the Bust of Marino Grimani by Alessandro Vittoria), opposed in vain by the then young critic Roberto Longhi.
WHEN: 6th November
TIMES: 10:00 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:15 a.m., 3:30 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 5:00 p.m., 5:45 p.m.
At 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. - Athanasius Kircher: Medieval Art
At 10:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. - Ladislao Odescalchi: The Armoury
At 11:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. - Gustavo Corvisieri: Ceramics
At 12:15 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. - Grigorij Stroganoff, Enrichetta Hertz, Ludwig Mond and Frida Löwenthal: Sculptures
WHERE: Palazzo Venezia.
MEETING POINT: via del Plebiscito, n. 118.
