From Thursday 01/06/2023 to Sunday 05/11/2023
Università degli Studi di Perugia
Piazza dell’Università 1, 06123 Perugia PG
Starting from June 1st a special installation on the Divine Painter promoted through a project by the School of Specialization in Historical and Artistic Heritage of the University of Perugia.
By involving new technologies — such as videomapping, projections and immersive reality — it will be possible to discover, starting from Thursday, June 1 2023a“Perugino come non l’hai mai visto” (Perugino as you never knew him), an event designed to communicate in new forms the work of the painter Pietro Vannucci known as Perugino, in the year of the fifth centenary of his death.
The initiative will in fact have a special scenario, that of the University and the lodges of the Department of Physics and Geology, and it is part of a project promoted by the University of Perugia, and curated by Professor Cristina Galassi, Director of the School of Specialization in Historical and Artistic Heritage of the University of Perugia.
The opening of the special virtual exhibition will take place June 1, starting at 8:30 pm; the projection can be admired until November 5, 2023.
Speakers: the institutional greetings by Maurizio Oliviero, Rector of the University of Perugia, Andrea Romizi, Mayor of the City of Perugia, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni, Vice president of the FAI and President of the National Committee for the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the death of Pietro Perugino, Anna Calabro, president of the Perugia Classical Music Foundation. On the occasion of the first lighting, in the cloister of the Rectorate, after the presentation of the project by prof. Cristina Galassi, also a concert in collaboration with the Perugia Classical Music Foundation will take place. The vocal groups Armoniosoincanto and Tritonus will perform with Katerina Gannudi (harp and voice) and Enrico Bronzi (cello). Chorus director Master Franco Radicchia.
New technologies at the service of art
“Perugino come non l’hai mai visto” is a project with a strong cultural and popular value that uses new technologies to communicate the work by Pietro Vannucci in new forms and with a great impact. It presents the main works realized by the master that are still preserved in Umbria, as well as those now preserved abroad as a result of dispersions, in particular because of the Napoleonic requisitions. The purpose is to make known to a large public the paintings present and scattered on the Umbrian territory, favoring the knowledge of the artist and the activation of virtuous routes and itineraries in Umbria, and to spread the knowledge of the works by Perugino kept outside the Umbria region. With the intention of creating an “animated square”, in the lodges of the Department of Physics and Geology the main works by the artist present on the Umbrian territory are represented “full screen”: a synthetic narrative, with lettering in animation, traces the production of the Divine Painter visiting the places in which he has branched his activity.
Info:
Promoting Institution: University of Perugia
Where: University of Perugia, Piazza dell’Università
Free entry
Hours: from 01/06/2023 to 31/08/2023 from 9:30 pm to midnight; from 01/09/2023 to 05/11/2023 from 8:30 pm to midnight
