Vittoriano
On Friday, June 21, SISCA - the Italian Society for the History of Art Criticism - which counts among its members the most authoritative scholars of art history, museography and the history of art criticism, met at VIVE, which hosted its semi-annual assembly at the Sala della Crociera of the Palazzo del Collegio Romano.
Established in 2005 and chaired by Professor Massimiliano Rossi, Professor of Museology and Art Criticism and Restoration at the University of Salento, SISCA is a nonprofit association aimed at fostering a fruitful dialogue between universities and public and private institutions. Its purpose is to promote scientific research, methodological debate on criticism and art history, in its multifaceted aspects: from the analysis of sources, to the various types of art literature and orientations of criticism from the Middle Ages to the contemporary debate.
For the SISCA members who attended, the meeting organized at VIVE was, in addition, an opportunity to visit the exhibition "The Last Portrait: Mazzini and Lega, Parallel Histories of the Risorgimento"-currently being held at the Zanardelli Hall of the Vittoriano until next Sept. 8-with an exceptional guide, Director Edith Gabrielli curator of the exhibition project. Participants were able to admire, among the more than sixty items on display, the famous painting "The Last Moments of Giuseppe Mazzini" by Silvestro Lega kept in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (USA). The work, of extraordinary intensity as well as absolute artistic significance, in portraying the Father of the Fatherland in all his fragile and composed humanity, reaffirms the central role of painting in the process of transmitting historical memory.
