Artists, over the centuries, have dedicated great attention to love, depicting it with a great variety of subjects and styles. For Valentine's Day, Friday at 5:30 pm, the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Sassari, proposes a guided itinerary entitled: Storie D'Amore. A thematic journey between myth and popular traditions”.
An opportunity to get to know, in a different light, a selection of works that tell about love , representing nuances and aspects of its power, which leads to outcomes that are not always happy or positive.
Among the most common subjects are the great classical myths, such as that of Leda and the Swan , revisited in a very modern key by Giuseppe Biasi from Sassari, who transforms the Western Leda into a very sensual African woman. The same author also tells of marital love in Corteo Matrimonio (Wedding Procession) from about 1920, struck by the magnificence of the traditional Teulada clothes. Before him, Giovanni Marghinotti, with his Festa campestre in Sardegna (Campestre Festival in Sardinia), in 1861, describes the habits and customs of the Sardinian people, focusing on the celebrations linked to the Selargino wedding, the complex and now justly famous ceremony of Sa Coja Antiga.
