Landscape painting, a theme particularly close to the cultural and artistic identity of Umbria, is the protagonist of this exhibition, which presents a selection of about thirty works, many of them unpublished, from the Marignoli collection. Paintings by authors of various origin, from the seventh to the twentieth century, offer a petit tour between celebrated and spectacular places – the Marmore Waterfall, the Clitunno Temple, the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi – together with unusual, sometimes disappeared glimpses of cities and interiors. They are testimonies that invite to reflect on the very essence of a landscape that has multiple “souls” – naturalistic, cultural, artistic, literary, religious, anthropological -, in the singular relationship between environmental diversity and memories of the past.
The landscape is always a cultural product and its perception is closely linked to the gaze of those who observe it. The exhibition is thus an invitation to question what defines it and transforms it over time, but also on its conservation and its destiny: the itinerary exhibition guide to reread some of the most suggestive “Umbrian spaces” or to discover new songs of a territory that, in its close dialogue with history, consciously in the present.
Among the authors on display: Wilson, Châtelet, Chauvin, Bellermann, Poveda, Lucien Simon, Croatto, Prencipe, Parisani.