“Female figure in the Baroque, symbol of universal values ​​and passions”

A journey that highlights the central role of women in the great Baroque theatre, between moral symbol and narrative force. A journey that crosses antiquity and reaches today, showing the relevance of the values ​​expressed by the female figure. This is the key to understanding the exhibition “Virtue and Grace”, according to the curator Lucia Peruzzi. “The values ​​told through history are still profoundly relevant,” he states, recalling how ancient myths and narratives are intertwined with daily life: “they speak of passions, suffering, deceptions and loves, in a story that goes from the senses to spirituality”. From the heroines of classicism to the protagonists of “Jerusalem liberated”, up to the figures of religious tradition, the exhibition highlights a system of values ​​that spans the centuries.

“It is a vitality that reaches us through the fascination of the female figure,” observes Peruzzi. The exhibition thus invites us to reread the present through the past: “It is exciting to discover how contemporaneity can be interpreted by going backwards, between art, poetry and history, in an indissoluble bond. An approach, concludes Peruzzi, which makes the exhibition project not only historical-artistic, but also profoundly current”.