Today we would like to mention to you the interesting art exhibition that has been organized in Ferrara in the magnificent setting offered by the Diamanti Palace. The exhibition is dedicated to Symbolism and it is open to the public from 18th February to 20th May 2007, to enchant both your eyes and your heart.

We do not make a secret that we are very fond of the painters who belong to the important artistic movement of Symbolism and we think that this exhibition is a unique opportunity to look closely at their masterpieces.

In order to make you understand better what we are talking about, we will tell you that Symbolism is a XIXth century movement of essential importance in the history of art, because it represents a basic connection between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In fact, the formal conditions for the flourishing of the XXth century avant-gardes could be created thanks to Symbolism.

The exhibition in Ferrara puts together a hundred of artists as: Moreau, Rossetti, Böcklin, Redon, Gauguin, Klinger, Rodin, Munch, Previati, Pellizza da Volpedo, Mondrian, Klimt and many others, who have given us a lasting mark of a new way of expressing reality through their masterpieces.

The chosen works reflect the meaningful historic moment in which they were produced and they point out the most recurring pictorial themes: life, death, dreams, reflection, mistery and the great myths.

In particular, the exhibition begins with the works made by the “precursors” of the movement, who expressed inner life, imagination and dreams with Rossetti, Moreau and Edward Burne Jones.
In the second section the exhibition goes on with the leading painters of the proper Symbolism: Gauguin, Nabis, Khnopff, Rodin, Klinger, Munch.
The last part of the exhibition shows the presence of those symbolists who persisted at the beginning of the twentieth century: Previati, Segantini, Pellizza da Volpedo and Mondrian and then it ends with a flourish with Hodler and Klimt, who herald the beginning of Expressionism.

In conclusion, as far as we are concerned, we can say that this exhibition plunges you in a symbolic reality that allows you to contact the thoughts and reflections of these great masters of the history of art, who still help us, with their works, to understand better the human soul.

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