The Last Portrait. Mazzini and Lega – Parallel Lives in the Risorgimento

From May 31 to September 8 at the Altar of the Fatherland, Sala Zanardelli

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The Last Portrait. Mazzini and Lega – Parallel Lives in the Risorgimento

The VIVE - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia, directed by Edith Gabrielli, inaugurates the exhibition “The Last Portrait. Mazzini and Lega – Parallel Lives in the Risorgimento,” running until next Sept. 8 in Rome, at the Sala Zanardelli of the Vittoriano.

At the center of the exhibition project is The Dying Mazzini by Silvestro Lega, a painting of extraordinary intensity, and absolute artistic importance in which the Father of the Fatherland is portrayed a few hours before his death in all his fragile and composed humanity, reaffirming the central role of painting in the process of transmitting historical memory.

To date preserved at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (USA), thanks to the will of the Ministry of Culture and the diplomatic commitment of the Offices of direct collaboration of Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, the work - one of the icons of our Risorgimento - is exhibited at the Vittoriano, the symbol par excellence of the Risorgimento, the Republic and Italian historical and cultural identity.

The exhibition, curated by Edith Gabrielli with historical advice from Giuseppe Monsagrati, sponsored by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, is promoted and organized by the Ministry of Culture and VIVE, in collaboration with the MiC's General Directorate for Museums, headed by Massimo Osanna, and in agreement with the Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento, directed by Alessandro Campi.