About Festival Italiano
As in the previous years, “Festival Italiano 2011" shall include other cultural and social moments.
There will be a Cinema review, featuring recent releases from Italian directors to be held at the Dana Mall Cinema and the Bahrain Cinema Club, starting on January 30th.
As usual, there will be events dedicated to Italian Cuisine and a special presentation will be made by a renowned chef to Bahrain Institute of Hospitality and Retail.
The closing of the Festival will be a premiere of the Italian Grand Ball , that will be prepared during the week through dance classes and conferences (Tickets required) , and an Opera night : “Venice : the music reflects in the sea “ where this unique city will be the theme of a musical journey, following the steps of famous Italian composers who devoted their life to music at the Cultural Hall on February 11th, which will be open to everybody.
The Festival will be an occasion for visits by Italian Business delegations, that will become acquainted with Bahrain and explore possibilities of cooperation and joint ventures.
Bahrain National Museum
29 January - 11 February
This important Art Collection showcasing works of famous 16th century painters from two regions of the north of Italy, Lombardy and Veneto will be the first of its kind in the Gulf and is expected to attract a significant number of art admirers. Well-known names such as Tiziano, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paris Bordon, Sebastiano Del Piombo, Giulio Campi e Pietro Della Vecchia will be displayed for the first time in Bahrain, approximately for two weeks, at the Bahrain National Museum, opening on 3 of February.
The six paintings are portraits of historic personalities, among them a Venetian Doge, a prelate, a noblewoman, a painter, reflecting the epoch which is considered a landmark in the development of world painting and in the history of figurative arts in general.
Art features are prominent in the Festival, as there will be a presentation of other masterworks from the city of Florence (Firenze), albeit this time only in special digital version that will however make them known even better than in reality.
DELLA VECCHIA
Pietro della Vecchia (1603 – September 8, 1678) born as Pietro Muttoni.
Well known among his contemporaries for his ability to imitate the styles of 16th-century masters, he was also known for his grotesque paintings and portraiture.
GIULIO CAMPI
Giulio Campi (1500–1572) was a painter and an architect. His numerous paintings are grandly and reverently conceived, freely drawn, vigorously coloured, lofty in style, and broadly handled.
PARIS BORDON
Paris Bordon (or Bordone) (1495 – January 19, 1570) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance who while training with Tiziano, maintained a strand of mannerist complexity and provincial vigor. Known for his religious, mythological, and anecdotal subjects.
SEBASTIANO DEL PIOMBO
Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1485, Venice – June 21, 1547, Rome), byname of Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italian Renaissancee-Mannerist painter of the early 16th century famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school.
TINTORETTO
Tintoretto (September 29, 1518 – May 31, 1594), real name Jacopo Comin, was an Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Venetian Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso, and his dramatic use of perspectival space and special lighting effects make him a precursor of Baroque art.
TIZIANO
Tiziano Vecelli (c. 1473/1490– 27 August 1576) better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante’s Paradiso) Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects.
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