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Reading161 The reading girl (Pietro Magni)

Pietro Magni (1817 - 1877) is best known for his Girl Reading, first carved in 1856; today the original may be seen in Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, while copies exist in numerous other museum collections

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Reading161 The reading girl (Pietro Magni)

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  1. 161 Reading

  2. Pietro Magni (1817-1877) The Reading Girl (La Lettrice) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC model 1856, carved 1861

  3. Pietro Magni's marble statue The Reading Girl brought the Milanese sculptor international fame and recognition. It was exhibited numerous times at international exhibitions throughout Europe and America, each time to great public and critical acclaim. Stylistically it owes much to the artistic tradition of verismo or "realism" that characterized Italian art during the middle years of the nineteenth century, but it also recalls earlier aspects of Italian romanticism

  4. photography by Art Historian Lee Sandstead

  5. The content of the book has obviously moved her. Its words (based on a text legible in the first exhibited version of the sculpture) are lines by the Italian poet and playwright Giovanni Battista Niccolini (1782-1861), whose writings celebrated themes of Lombard freedom and deliverance from Austrian oppression during the uprisings of 1848. This young reader responds, therefore, to sentiments that will soon find their fullest expression in the Italian Risorgimento

  6. The Reading Girl may very well represent Italy itself, soon to come into maturity as a nation. In this regard, The Reading Girl fuses verismo concepts of truth to nature and close observation with emotional insight, all in service to a rising Italian patriotic sentiment

  7. A single tear streaks the young girl's left cheek near her eye. Suspended around her neck on a simple knotted cord is a portrait medallion of the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi

  8. The model of The Reading Girl was first exhibited at the Palazzo di Brera in 1856 and a marble version shown at the Florence Esposizione in 1861, at which time the Italian government ordered three replicas of the piece. In the following year it made its acclaimed appearance at the London International Exhibition, on loan, according to the Official Catalogue, from the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction. However the work was soon afterwards acquired by the London Stereoscopic Company, sole photographers to the International Exhibition

  9. According to the catalogue of the 5 July 2000 Sotheby's sale (no. 148), the NGA sculpture was the one exhibited in the 1862 London International Exhibition. where it was on loan from the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction. The other principal marble version of the work is in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan. Two recorded marble versions, one with slight variations, are in private collections in Italy

  10. The Gallery of Modern Art (also known as GAM) is one of Milan’s most enjoyable art galleries. Located in the Villa Reale, a sumptuous palazzo where Napoleon once resided, it houses a world class collection of modern 19th-century art.  Pietro Magni ~ The Reading Girl (La Leggitrice)

  11. Pietro Magni (1817-1877) The Reading Girl (La Lettrice), 1856 Milan

  12. Pietro Magni (1817-1877) The Reading Girl (La Lettrice), 1856 Milan

  13. Pietro Magni (1817-1877) The Reading Girl (La Lettrice), 1856 Milan In the same room is the Girl Intent on Writing by Giovanni Spertini (Italian, 1821 - 1895) The two statues were made two years apart

  14. Giovanni Spertini (Italian, 1821 - 1895) the Girl Intent on Writing - The Gallery of Modern Art Milan

  15. Palazzo ZuckermannMuseo Bottacin di Padova, Italy

  16. The Bottacin Museum at Palazzo Zuckermann hosts the entire collection of Nicola Bottacin, a wealthy merchant who, in 1865, gave the city of Padova all his works of art and numismatic collections which were in his home in Trieste

  17. Pietro Magni (1817-1877) isbestknownfor his Girl Reading, first carved in 1856; today the original may be seen in Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, while copies exist in numerous other museum collections, e.g. in Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisbon or this one in the basement of Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham

  18. Text and pictures: Internet All copyrights  belong to their respective owners Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu https://www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda https://ma-planete.com/michaelasanda 2017 Sound:Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Lamento della Ninfa - Amor - Versión de Jordi Savall; Claudio Cavina & La Venexiana

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