Look at the Museum of Castelvecchio to understand that is too early to bet on Italy’s renaissance

The Museum of Castelvecchio, in Verona, is just another Italian old glory that is fading away due to the deep cultural crisis that 20 years of bad politics and mass media monopoly has caused. It preserves masterpieces such as the sarcophagus of Saint Sergio e Bacco (1179), the Crucifixion by the Master of Sant’Anastasia, the Equestrian statue of Cangrande della Scala (1354), the Madonna del roseto by Stefano da Verona (1420-1435), the Crucifix by Jacopo Bellini (1436), the Sacra Famiglia by Andrea Mantegna (1495-1505), or the Madonna col Bambino by Giovanni Bellini (1476). The interiors are by Carlo Scarpa (1959-1973).

 

Nevertheless, the Museum has a primitive web site, extremely poor of images or information, probably designed by a dilettante. There are no exhibitions on – except a bunch of products by a local artisan, who pretends to be considered an real artist. No curators, non international relations, no sponsor, no life. Probably driven by politics, not by professionals, this place is static as stone, unable to inspire even the more well-disposed citizen. No future will come from this kind of approach. It is still too early to bet on a new Italy renaissance.

 

July 17, 2015