was in 1583 that the Emperor Rudolph II (1552 - 1612) left the Hapsburg court in Vienna permanently to settle until the end of his troubled life in the castle on the hill Hradschin Hradcany in Prague. But no one knew the reason for that decision which, in addition to all weakened the already shaken his authority against his brother Matt, his successor from 1612 to 1619, power-hungry and untrustworthy. We can only assume that the monarch, not sure if you suffer from serious mental disorders, thought to be in the Bohemian capital an environment appropriate for his character issues. To his contemporaries and later generations Rudolph remained a bizarre character whose behavior was always surrounded by an atmosphere of legend because of his relations with alchemists and astrologers. In fact, contradictorily, while the court agreed to its artists, philosophers and scientists like Giordano Bruno, Giambattista Della Porta, astronomers Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe, in parallel with the alchemists were greeted John Dee and Michael Sendivogius, the medium Edward Kelley, an adviser to Elizabeth I of 'England, Rabbi Judah Low, legendary creator of the Golem, all operators of mysterious rites celebrated on the basis of magic formulas.
On the other hand showed Rodolfo surrounding himself with all the generous patron of artists of many different disciplines, goldsmith and precious stone processing, painting in the wide range Typical of his expressions, to architecture. His boundless wealth also enabled him to accumulate an incredible number of masterpieces of painting and sculpture and exhibits pseudo-scientific, natural and monstrosity 'oddities' disparate, collected and celebrated in the famous 'Wunderkammer', the 'Hall of Wonders'.
In this cultural climate, composite and sumptuous, thanks to his lively intelligence, is also part of the Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldi, Arcimboldo said and Arzimbalda (Milan, 1527 - Milan, 1595) already known, according to the contemporary Paul Morigi, as "a rare artist, scholar, and many other virtues, and Excellent ... so in painting as in many oddities, not only at home but still out." Since the period of Viennese liked, and not a little, to Rudolph of Habsburg 's inventive genius of the Lombard, which indulges itself in the composition of fabulous half-busts made from plant matter, animals, minerals in which individual components associated with each other detailed insight combined to create an illusion so the expression of a human face.
especially fascinated by the disturbing philosophical metaphor inherent in figures così cariche di mistero.
Purtroppo a Praga della copiosa produzione del manierista italiano è rimasto ben poco: solo alcuni lavori raccolti nel Museo Nazionale e nella Galleria Nazionale. Il resto è disperso in tutto il mondo: Vienna, Stoccolma, Parigi, Madrid, oltreoceano… Generazioni di critici d’arte hanno cercato di indagare, senza apprezzabili risultati, sulla personalità enigmatica e sfuggente di Giuseppe Arcimboldi. C’è da augurarsi che qualche risposta definitiva la possa suggerire la m ostra su Arcimboldo a Milano " Arcimboldo - Artista milanese tra Leonardo e Caravaggio " che ha aperto i battenti giovedì 10 febbraio 2011, presso le sale del Palazzo Reale . Si tratta di un'esposizione molto attesa sia per l'alto valore delle opere in mostra, sia per la possibilità offerta di una visione finalmente complessiva dell'intero percorso artistico di quello che è stato l'estro di Arcimboldo . In addition to its famous heads of flowers and fruits, are in fact also exhibited paintings, drawings, objects, jewelry, which, at first glance may seem far away from the traditional production of the Lombard, but in reality, they promote a better understanding broad and reasoned. If they appear so clear his 'debt' against Leonardo and 'credits' towards the figurative experience Caravaggio, it is indisputable that Arcimboldo was able to create his original world, personal, brilliant in the grotesque, already imbued with an almost surreal feeling.
nine sections in which it articulated the shows the latest all fully focused on his most famous works : those of the period of youth the most famous heads, such as "gardener" and "reversible head with a fruit basket", the drawings grotesque.
A key aspect that shows Milan then puts the spotlight is the close relationship that exists between the artist and his city, Milan : a question so far studied in a too superficial, but that, until May 22, 2011 (last day to visit the exhibition) will be of concern , study, and who knows, even a few surprises.
Mostra di pittura. " Arcimboldo - Artista milanese tra Leonardo e Caravaggio " Sale del Palazzo Reale. Milano
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