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Sala 2: l'Olifante con alle spalle l'arazzo con la battaglia di Roncisvalle / Room 2: the Olifant and, in the background, the tapestry with the battle of Roncesvalles
The infinite rooms
of Ariosto Guidi – curator of the Gallerie d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea, Fondazione Ferrara Arte –,
the exhibition designer Antonio Ravalli,
the lighting designer Alberto Pasetti, and
Erco Italia's managing director Andrea Nava.
Between masterpieces and light, a wonderful exhibition
in Ferrara. We talked about it with Barbara Guidi,
Antonio Ravalli, Alberto Pasetti and Andrea Nava BARBARA GUIDI
"Light is a key element in the creation
of a museum itinerary"
I
n Ferrara one of the most famous renaissance
buildings in the world, Palazzo dei Diamanti,
shines with a new light. Its name derives from
the particular diamond shape of the over 8500
marble blocks that make up its bugnato walls.
It was designed by the architect Biagio
Rossetti, and its construction began in 1493
for Count Sigismondo d'Este, brother of Duke
Ercole I d'Este. After the completion of the
restoration work and installation of a new
lighting system in the halls on the ground
floor, which has taken about a year and a half
from the project design to the realization
of the new lighting system, Fondazione Ferrara
Arte inaugurated an exhibition
commemorating the five hundred year
anniversary of the first edition of the epic
poem Orlando Furioso, marking the historical
and artistic quality of an exhibition design that
is certainly going to be spoken about at length:
"What Ariosto saw when he closed his eyes,
when he was composing Orlando Furioso".
A task that has taken a long time, carried out
by the curators Guido Beltramini and Adolfo
Tura, Maria Luisa Pacelli and Barbara Guidi,
and a scientific committee consisting of literary
scholars and art historians. An extraordinary
narrative through the images of masterpieces
by the greatest artists of the Renaissance:
from Mantegna to Leonardo da Vinci, from
Michelangelo to Raphael, from Paolo Uccello
to Botticelli to Titian and The Bacchanal of the
Andrians, which now belongs to the Prado
museum and has returned to Italy 500 years
after its creation, besides ancient and
renaissance sculptures, engravings, tapestries,
weapons, musical instruments, books and
items of unequalled beauty and preciousness