WOMAN, MUSE, ARTIST. Portraits by Cesare Tallone between the 19th and 20th centuries.

Director at the Carrara Academy in Bergamo and professor of painting at the Brera Academy, Cesare Tallone (1853 – 1919) a highly successful artist, portraitist of Queen Margherita and founder of one of the first schools of women’s painting, is the protagonist of the exhibition “WOMAN, MUSE, ARTIST. Portraits by Cesare Tallone between the 19th and 20th centuries.”

The exhibition – the first entirely produced, organized and promoted by the City of Abano Terme through the Villa Bassi Rathgeb Museum – is the result of a study and in-depth work on the Museum’s permanent collection and in particular on the nucleus of works by Cesare Tallone, giving particular emphasis to the artist’s female portrait production, which tells the story of the role of women in Italian society between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Inserted in the exhibition, in dialogue with Tallone, are, among others, Lino Selvatico’s Portrait of Emma Gramatica (1911) from the Ricci Oddi Gallery in Piacenza and Giovanni Boldini’s Portrait of a Lady with Flowers – a “Distinguished Guest” for whom an in-depth discussion will be reserved – which tells the public about that different vision of the female world characteristic of the Belle Époque.

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