A lesson in Art History with one of Italy's leading experts: Sunday at 5 pm, in the parish church of Sant'Efisio, Vittorio Sgarbi will be in Capoterra to participate in the event organized by the Municipality entitled "Sgarbi illustrates the Nativity".
"Admission will be free of charge - explains Mayor Beniamino Garau -, Sgarbi will offer us a journey through the centuries, richly illustrated, to discover not only essential masterpieces, but the oldest and most profound bond in the world, the nativity, which alludes, in the same measure, to the mystery of the life of each of us and to the relationship of man with God. From the disembodied and divine Nativities and Annunciations, with the sky infused with gold, of Byzantine art, Vittorio Sgarbi will lead us through the revolution of modern painting, which has represented an increasingly earthly nativity, ever closer to life . But the conquest of truth for this mysterious and evocative subject has not been linear: the history of art indicates second thoughts and returns, continuous short circuits between ideal and real".
From Giotto to Simone Martini, from Piero della Francesca to Raphael, from Michelangelo to Caravaggio and Rubens up to some suggestions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Courbet to Segantini, to Pietro Gaudenzi: Vittorio Sgarbi will not only talk about art from an unusual point of view, that of the nativity, but will show how it has been able to identify the infinite nuances of the most divine act that a human being can perform: the gift of life.
"Between painting, sculpture, but also cinema and literature, this journey will finally allow us to glimpse the thousand, labyrinthine faces of femininity, which only great art can represent," says Garau. "The Nativity is the beginning of everything. Its synthesis is in the image of the Mother holding the Child in her arms: it does not show the power of God but the simplicity of affections , in Giotto as in Pietro Lorenzetti, as in Vitale da Bologna, as in Giovanni Bellini, as in Bronzino, as in Caravaggio. Mary in the act of motherhood is not a distant majesty, enthroned, holding in her arms a child who is already divine: she is simply, in most representations, a mother with her son. For this reason, Mary's motherhood is not a religious theme but a human theme. The subject is simply life."