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Bellini collection entices audience
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-02-03 09:06
The Italian Bellini Museum Renaissance Art Collection
Exhibition is being held in Guangzhou until
February. | After three exhibitions in
Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, Shanghai and Shenzhen of Guangdong Province last
year, the Italian Bellini Museum Renaissance Art Collection Exhibition is being
held in this southern city and will last until February 20.
The Bellini Museum is a private museum in Florence, Italy. The family of
Bellini began collecting and trading antiques and art works during the
Renaissance, and has become one of the most renowned private museums in the
world.
Starting from December 28, the museum has exhibited a total of 121 antiques
of Italian Renaissance art at the Guangdong Museum of Art, including 36
sculptures, 22 paintings and 16 handicrafts and many other art works.
Among the most eye-catching are Leonardo da Vinci's "Ancient Horse" and
Michelangelo Buonarroti's "Taking Jesus Down from the Cross." The latter was
created in the 16th century, and is a painted wooden carving bas relief, and is
probably the most precious work of art among more than 20,000 pieces in the
Bellini family's private collection, according to Luigi Bellini, curator of the
museum.
Another masterpiece of Michelangelo, the copied bronze "David," which was
created by the great sculptor Andrea Verrochio in the 15th century, one century
earlier than Michelangelo's work, is also being shown at the exhibition.
According to Bellini, most of the antiques on display at the exhibition are
original works by Italian Renaissance artists, enabling Chinese people to enjoy
the most typical arts during the period.
Bellini said that the exhibition aims at enhancing cultural exchange between
China and Italy, adding that "different civilizations should communicate and
learn from each other."
"The Renaissance art movement, the rebirth of ancient Greek and Roman art,
began to take place in Italy in the 14th century, but I believe another great
renaissance movement is happening now in China, which will make this ancient
country create a greater civilization in the future," said
Bellini.
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