Two major Italian exhibitions will land in Riga in 2025: this was announced by the Minister of Culture of Latvia, Agnese Lāce, and Mayor Vilnis Ķirsis, together with the Italian Ambassador Alessandro Monti, at the press conference held at the Latvian National Art Museum.
From 22 May to 24 August, the Riga Bourse Art Museum will host 'Italian Arts and Crafts from the 6th to the 19th century', in cooperation with Palazzo Madama and Fondazione Torino Musei. More than 100 masterpieces of applied and decorative art from the collection of Palazzo Madama in Turin will be on show, in an exhibition that "recounts almost fifteen centuries of Italian art, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, through masterpieces that touch on the most diverse arts", in the words of Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, director of Palazzo Madama.
From 5 July to 26 October it will instead be the turn of 'Light from Italy. From Fattori to Morandi', organised by the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMM) with the Uffizi Galleries. The exhibition will present masterpieces from the Uffizi Galleries placed in dialogue with late 19th and early 20th century works from the LNMM's collection, the happy result of a collaboration between museum institutions that is all the more significant on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the twinning between the cities of Riga and Florence. "The exhibitions realised with Turin and Florence are a great and effective operation of cultural diplomacy," said Culture Minister Agnese Lāce, "which testifies to the excellent relations developed with Italy and which concretely contributes to raising the level of the cultural offer of our capital.
"It is truly the year of Italy in Latvia," added Ambassador Alessandro Monti. "At a time of great vitality for Italian and Latvian culture, these exhibitions reflect the creative connection that increasingly binds our countries."
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