{"id":7042,"date":"2023-08-04T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.villamedici-giulini.it\/dreaming-of-the-sea\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T16:05:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:05:20","slug":"dreaming-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villamedici-giulini.it\/en\/dreaming-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming of the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Dreaming of the sea is part of the \u201cArt and Music Series\u201d published by Villa
\nMedici Giulini, a series inaugurated by the catalog In search of lost sounds in
\n2006 and later developed with other publications dedicated to the collection of
\nmusical instruments. The instinctive question is \u201cwhat is the connection
\nbetween the sea and music\u201d: the answer that comes naturally to me is the
\nreference to Claude Debussy\u2019s masterpiece La mer in which the sea waves
\nbecome music.
\nThe editorial schedule includes a series of \u201cart notebooks\u201d in which are
\ncatalogued the works that have exerted an irresistible attraction to the point of
\nmaking seduction becoming a real and continuous presence. I would like to
\nquote a precious advice I had from my brother Vittorio, to whom I am grateful
\nfor having solved the thousand questions I asked him: he suggested me not
\nto collect in an eclectic and disorderly way, but to set targets and develop
\nthemes. I immediately liked his suggestion because it corresponded to the
\ndevelopment of themes in the music, but I partially disregarded his advice
\nlosing myself in a thousand streams, each one anyway with its own
\ndevelopment. Enthusiasm and exaggeration have meant that the musical
\ninstruments are almost a hundred and that they can still be played.
\nAfter the restoration, a wonderful historical piano is added to the
\ninstruments of Villa Medici Giulini, a posthumous gift of a friend. It must be
\nplayed and the coeval music has to be looked for. Putting the word \u201cend\u201d
\nmeans to stop dreaming\u2026 and thus a wonderful adventure of art and music
\ncontinues! My innate curiosity has led me to be interested in various themes
\nthat I list here only in part: paintings (especially if they are rich in characters
\npossibly happy and even better if they are playing), porcelain, tapestries,
\nfurniture, large decorations, oriental objects, silver, ancient books, paintings
\non glass, sculptures and… I\u2019m afraid I forgot some topic!
\nI now asked myself the question of putting order in my world of images and
\nI had the good fortune to meet Enrico Colle who intuited my desire to know in
\na not approximate way the identity of the works surrounding me and
\nentrusted each individual subject to one scholar. In my hopeless optimism, I
\nthought I\u2019d solve the filing in a few months, and I realized instead that the job
\ntook a few years, also because the irresistible attraction that works of art
\nexert has made me the plague and torment of scholars as I add every time
\nnew works creating an inevitable upheaval.
\nEach group of works will be the subject of an \u201cart notebook\u201d. The editorial
\nadventure begins with Dreaming of the sea, curated by Silvio Balloni, and will
\ncontinue with: The enchantment of fragility, curated by Silvia Ciappi who has
\nfiled the paintings on glass, The pleasure of precious objects, curated by
\nMarco Coppe, Paintings on the wave of music, in which paintings and
\ndrawings will be filed on the basis of the study made by Mina Gregori, Sounds<\/p>\n

and emotions, edited by Enrico Colle. The chapter of this book entitled The
\nSea in Paintings already contains records that will be part of the book
\ndedicated to paintings. To these titles two publications dedicated to Mozart\u2019s
\nfavourite instruments and to the history of the psaltery, often present in the
\niconography of the musical angels, will be added. I would also like to point out
\nan \u201cart notebook\u201d dedicated to the cycle of frescoes made by Francesco
\nZuccarelli for the main hall of Villa Medici Giulini. The study has been done by
\nFederica Spadotto, an illustrious expert in Venetian painting. The title of the
\npublication will be Music and landscapes.
\nI would like to thank for the collaboration in Dreaming of the sea some
\nfriends and scholars: Giorgio Balestrero, who checked the nautical
\nterminology avoiding that \u201cwe would sink a battleship\u201d for excess of
\nenthusiasm, Domenico Savini who lives the world of Versilia with the
\nsensitivity of an artist, Silvia Ciappi who drew up the records of the paintings
\non glass dedicated to the sea, earlier the publication that she has currently
\nunder study, Fernando Mazzocca for the record The Triumph of Galatea,
\nEnrico Colle who coordinated the study bringing the work to a conclusion, and
\nespecially Silvio Balloni who transformed every obstacle into a fascinating
\nscientific result.
\nI know there are many works like those that are the subject of this book in
\nthe villas by the seaside, works that were typical of the 40\u2019s furniture and that
\ntoday, as the time passes, have become almost \u201ccentenaries\u201d and can
\ntherefore fully fall in the world of the art.
\nThe volume costs \u20ac30 and can be booked by sending a request email to villamedici@villagiulini.it<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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