from Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 11th 2. 2011
Roman Hollenstein • For Winckelmann and Goethe was later to Rome, a revelation. As they succumbed in the 18th Century, other scientists or artists of the fascination of Rome's antiquities and ruins. And some seemed whether their size, to mimic or even exceed it had to be quiet despair, as a famous red chalk drawing by Johann Heinrich Fuseli shows. This one looks in the exhibition "Roma e l'antico," currently on view at the Palazzo Sciarra on the Corso in Rome, but just as futile as Angelica Kauffmann's portrait of Winckelmann empathetic Zurich. Nevertheless, the issue of an event as it included some 140 carefully selected, otherwise rather rarely seen masterpieces, the ancient cult of the 18th Century and the new position of Rome as a world center of art documenting and thus represent an ideal introduction to an equally complex and exciting topic.
The Divided into seven chapters show ranges from the admiration of antiquity important about the excavation, restoration, copying, studying and collecting found objects to discussions of Artists and craftsmen with the Antiquity. Rome vistas and Capricci come into its own as well as imperial statues or sculptures by Canova, as well as counterfeiting and pasticcios (such as the Hadrian refined, added, "Minerva d'Orsay"). The are from the ancient worship that emerged classicism and its development to the international style, illustrated with key works of Mengs, from the workshops of Piranesi and Cavaceppi, famous academic studies (David "Hector"), images of Grand Tourists (Batonis incomparable portrait of Henry Peirce before the Ares Ludovisi) and pictures of ancient history as Angelica Kauffmann, "reads Virgil's Aeneid before Augustus and Octavia." The presentation surprised, however, with excellent decoration objects. Among them are Giovanni Volpato biscuit figures after ancient sculptures as well as Luigi Valadier large, once kept in Aranjuez centerpiece. The exhibition is accompanied by a weighty catalog, which reflects not only all the exhibits and explained color, but with articles by 30 authors on numerous aspects of the reception of antiquity in the 18th Century lit.
By 6 March at the Palazzo Sciarra (www.fondazioneromamuseo.it). Catalog: Roma e l'antico. Visione e realtà nel '700. Ed Brook and Valter Curzi Carolina. Skira Editore; Milan 2010th 480 p., € 60, - .
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