It’s entitled Maddalena. The mystery and the image and is the unmissable event that puts on display at the San Domenico Museums in Forlì, over 200 masterpieces – from the third century. d.c. to the twentieth century – as an intimate investigation on the eternal charm of Maria di Màgdala, a woman whose existence is deeply intertwined with the faith of the first Christian communities in history. An exhibition, a journey that tries to answer the eternal question: who really was Maddalena?
The figure of Mary Magdalene is certainly one of the most emblematic and mysterious, her mystery is the starting point of many studies that still today bring new interpretative keys. Art, literature and cinema have dedicated hundreds of works to her.
Foto Emanuele Rambaldi
Among the great Masters fascinated by the figure of La Maddalena are present in the exhibition Masaccio, Crivelli, Van der Weiden, Signorelli, Bellini, Perugino, Barocci, Savoldo, Mazzoni, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, Guercino, Vouet, Reni, Lanfranco, Mengs, Canova, Hayez, Delacroix, Böcklin, Previati, Chagall, De Chirico, Guttuso, Melotti, Sutherland, Bill Viola.
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- Morelli: Marie al sepolcro
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- Mello da Gubbio: San Gregorio e Santa Maria Maddalena
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- Masaccio: Crocifissione
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- Tiziano: Santa Maria Maddalena
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- Signorelli: Maria Maddalena
Twelve sections, which tell the comparison with the aesthetics of pain in ancient art, the formation of iconographic models in the Middle Ages, the anthropological turn from Giotto to the late Gothic, the humanistic perspective between penance, hagiography and portrait, the formal tension of the sixteenth century and the sensuality of the seventeenth century, the neoclassical revival, the religious nineteenth century and the symbolist anxieties until the twentieth century, which gave the figure of the Magdalene a sense of the mystery of human life
Conceived and created by the Cassa dei Risparmi Foundation of Forlì in collaboration with the Municipality of Forlì and the San Domenico Museums, the exhibition is curated by Cristina Acidini, Fernando Mazzocca and Paola Refice. The prestigious scientific committee is chaired by Antonio Paolucci. General Manager is Gianfranco Brunelli. The exhibition, curated by Wilmotte et Associés of Paris and Lucchi & Biserni of Forlì, is divided into the Church of San Giacomo and the large rooms that formed the library of the Convent of San Domenico.