Celebrations of Pope Sixtus V in Sardinia, an art exhibition for the 500th anniversary of his birth
The exhibition will last until September
Two artists and their imaginative and visionary paintings to celebrate Pope Sixtus V in Sardinia for his five hundredth anniversary of his birth, and the Luxembourgian Monsignor Giovanni Sanna, bishop of Ampurias and Civita, who was a loyalist of the Marches pope. An exhibition to eternalize the unshakeable Christianity, the great moral virtue and the social works of the two prelates in the height of the Counter-Reformation.
Luciano Capriotti (aka Capri Otti) offers mixed media paintings depicting the Sistine epic with portraits of the Pope, his magnificence, his onerous task, burdened by loneliness, to ferry the universal church of Rome in the middle of the Renaissance when many exogenous forces undermined its millennial history.
The Luxurgese Francesco Pintus (aka Franz) instead portrays contemporary Luxurgese characters in their candor, with their expressive wrinkles of trust and anguish, yearnings and torments, including some of the brothers adepts of the representation of the Holy Week of Santu Lussurgiu.
The vernissage on Saturday 16 July , when the president of the Archeoclub APS of Santu Lussurgiu Umberto Guerra will officially cut the ribbon for a unique event on the island, which joins the many appointments to celebrate the “tough” Pope from the Marches, scattered throughout the Peninsula.
Guerra, born in the Marche but in Luxembourg by adoption, has always been a scholar of Pope Sixtus V, and also of Monsignor Sanna, the prelate of Luxembourg, who was commissioned by the Marches pontiff with the Archconfraternity of the Gonfalone to redeem, at the end of the sixteenth century, the Christian slaves of Algiers, and maintained diplomatic relations with the Sultan of Constantinople.
Sanna is remembered for his great cultural and religious building works on the island because he was the founder of three houses of the Jesuit novitiate (in Cagliari, Sassari and Busachi), then he had the bridge built over the river Coghinas, he had the co-cathedral of Sant 'completed. Antonio di Castelsardo, also embellished the parish of San Pietro di Santu Lussurgiu with rich sacred furnishings.
An exhibition to pay homage to the two great prelates of the Renaissance and to reinvigorate the strong link between the Marche and Sardinia regions born from the twinning between the towns of Montalto delle Marche, home of Sixtus V, and Santu Lussurgiu, birthplace of Monsignor Sanna, in the years' 80 of the twentieth century. The exhibition will last until September .
