The cycle of meetings promoted by the Tadini Academy with the support of the Circolo Amici del Tadini resumes: interventions entrusted to professionals, on cultural themes ranging from the heritage of the Tadini Academy to in-depth analysis of the territory.

The first appointment is scheduled for Tuesday 26 March at 8.30 pm in the Hall of Frescoes of the Academy in Lovere.

Curated by
Maria Ines Aliverti
Marco Albertario

Portraits between history and stories: for an approach to the world of Moroni

Giovanni Battista Moroni (1521-1580), a pupil of Moretto from Brescia and also the author of important devotional works, is known above all for his innovative activity as a portraitist. The meeting aims to offer a rereading of his career as a portraitist, with particular attention to the affirmation of his activity, which coincides with the progressive affirmation at the court of Cristoforo Madruzzo on the occasion of the Council of Trent.

The categories of the sixteenth-century portrait will therefore be examined, not a free genre, but codified on the basis of precise codes linked to the social role of the depicted person. An invitation to visit the exhibition “Moroni. The portrait of his time” set up in Milan at the Gallerie d’Italia headquarters until April 1st.

All conferences will take place in the Hall of Frescoes of the Tadini Academy, with entrance from Piazza Garibaldi, 5.

Entrance and participation are free.

­

Maria Ines Aliverti was associate professor at the University of Pisa (Department of History of Arts). You have taught, and collaborated on research, in other Italian and foreign universities: Genoa, Mainz, Paris III and Paris IV. You have served on the steering committee of national and international research programmes, among others Europa Triumphans (University of Warwick, 1998-2004). From 2010 to 2018 you contributed to the international workshops and conferences of the Society for European Festivals Research (University of Warwick). You currently work on ceremonial and festive contexts in Italy in the 16th century.

Among his works, published in Italy and abroad, many concern the court celebrations of the 16th and 17th centuries, and portraiture from the 16th to the 18th century in reference to the iconology of theater and entertainment, a field of research whose foundation contributed with pioneering studies. Among others: La naissance de l’acteur moderni. L’acteur et son portrait di lui au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Gallimard, 1998; An Icon for a New Woman: A Previously Unidentified Portrait of Isabella Andreini by Paolo Veronese, «Early Theatre», XI, 2 (December 2008), pp. 158-180

Texts and cover image by the Tadini Academy