(Finance) – Opens on May 21, 2022 at Gallerie d’Italia in Naples the final exposition of the XIX edition of Restituzionithe two-year program for the safeguarding and enhancement of the national artistic heritage that Intesa Sanpaolo has been conducting for over thirty years in collaboration with Ministry of Culture. Covered a chronological span of 26 centuries, ranging from antiquity to the contemporary to thus provide a wide panorama of the Italian artistic heritage.
The exhibition – reads the note – is called to inaugurate the new exhibition site of Naples of the Galleries of Italy confirming, as part of Intesa Sanpaolo’s cultural commitment, the great attention paid to the theme of restoration and safeguarding the immense artistic heritage of the country.
It can be visited until 25 September 2022, the exhibition presents the result of the restoration of 87 groups of works for a total of over 200 artifacts, selected by the bank together with 54 protection bodies (Superintendencies, Regional Directions of Museums and autonomous Museums) and belonging to 80 proprietary bodies, including public and diocesan museums, churches and places of worship, archaeological sites. The scientific curatorship is by Carlo Bertelli, Giorgio Bonsanti and, from this edition, Carla Di Francesco.
Born in Veneto and initially dedicated to that area, the Restituzioni program has grown, hand in hand with the growth of Intesa Sanpaolo, gradually reaching a wider range of action. In the current edition, which largely coincided with the period that upset programs and habits throughout the planet, Intesa Sanpaolo wanted to give continuity to the project by renewing its commitment to a sector in distress – that of restoration – which has always seen the ‘Italy to play a role of excellence in the world.
An initiative aimed at safeguarding the national heritage, which has never changed the initial mission and which has at the same time been renewed and expanded over the decades, involving in this edition 80 qualified restoration laboratories and dozens of conservation scientists engaged in diagnostics, throughout Italy, in addition to the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, the Central Institute for Restoration in Rome and the “La Venaria Reale” Conservation and Restoration Center in Turin.
The selected works testify to wealth of the great Italian museums and major cities of art, but also the identity importance for the Italian territory which is expressed in the smaller towns and villages, drawing an overview faithful to the idea of a widespread museum that characterizes our peninsula.
In this perspective of attention to the whole territory, the Banca has chosen to further extend the reference area of Restituzioni, which in the 19th edition involves all the Italian regions for the first time, thus fully consecrating its national dimension.
For four editions now, Returns it also extends to a European reality in which the Group is present, as well as a non-European one. Representing Europe this year will be France, with a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio from the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris.
It will be up to the Brazil to give a world-wide breath to the projectin the important attempt to save a Pompeian fresco badly damaged by the terrible fire that devastated the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro in 2018.