poster - su concessione del Ministero per i beni e le
attività culturali e per il turismo – courtesy Civita Tre Venezie
Treviso - Museo Nazionale Collezione Salce - Polo
Museale del Veneto
Padova - Courtesy Galleria Nuova Arcadia di L. Franchi -
Civita Tre Venezie
"…great cathedrals of the earth, with their rock gates,
floors of clouds, choirs of streams and stones,
snow altars and purple vaults
crossed by a sowing of stars "
John Ruskin
Palazzo Sarcinelli
Il Racconto della Montagna - nella pittura tra Ottocento e Novecento
The Tale of the Mountains - in painting between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
At Palazzo Sarcinelli, in the charming town of Conegliano situated at the feet of the Dolomite mountains and northwest of Venice the exhibition - Il Racconto della Montagna – nella pittura
tra Ottocento e Novecento - The Tale
of the Mountains - in painting between the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries - until
December 8 - is curated by Giandomenico Romanelli and Franca
Lugato. The exhibition is aimed at deepening the theme of the mountains, which
presents itself already in significant form in Italian landscape painting. Alongside the works of famous Italian and
foreign authors who have frequented the Dolomites mainly, from Ciardi to Compton, from Sartorelli to
Pellis, from Wolf Ferrari to Chitarin
from various private and public collections, visitors will also be able to (re)
discover the alpine landscapes of lesser-known artists. In addition to the
paintings, the exhibition presents a selection of publications, cartography,
volumes, prints, advertising posters, testifying to the fortune and the growing
appeal that the theme takes on in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Ambito Italiano – Dolomiti - 1910 - 1925 ca.
cromolitogra a, 88 x 116 cm inv. 05347 9Bc
Giovanni Salviati - Cime di Lavaredo
“the first tourists
ever"
Josiah Gilbert – George Cheetham Churchill
The Dolomite Mountains Excursions Through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola
and Friuli in 1861, 1862 and 1863
first edition - London
1864
The Dolomite Mountains, published in 1864, is the first book dedicated to the Dolomite's
exploration, written and illustrated by two British travelers, Josiah Gilbert and George
Cheetham Churchill, which opens the exhibition path. With this publication,
the Dolomites are definitely
included in that alpine tour, which has romanticized and has contributed to making them
fashionable beyond the English Channel. Armed
with notepads and colors, Josiah and George explored rather unknown areas of the
Alps together with their wives, who
helped them in dealing with those incredibly introverted indigenous peoples.
Their love for the Dolomites makes them learn one by one the numerous alpine
valleys, which they frequent from 1861 to 1863. These two couples represent
"the first tourists ever" of the modern Dolomites.
Udine - Casa Cavazzini – Museo di Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea – courtesy Civita Tre Venezie
Giovanni Napoleone Pellis - Il Viatico
in Montagna - 1921-22
oil on canvas - 178 x 336 cm
oil on canvas - 178 x 336 cm
Giandomenico Romanelli
co-curator
Antonio Stoppani
Il Bel Paese. Conversazioni sulle bellezze naturalila geologia e la Geografia
fisica d’Italia
first edition – Milano
1876
The book Il Bel Paese by clergyman,
geologist, paleontologist, naturalist and patriot, Antonio Stoppani is also on display, published in 1876 it soon
become a best seller intended to constitute the magna geography map of Italy.
Divided into "evenings", that is, in narrations addressed in literary fiction to
his grandchildren gathered in front of the fireplace, Stoppani invites us to
become aware of the country's natural heritage. The book also highlights the
role and potential of CAI, the Club Alpino Italiano officially founded
1863 by Quintino Sella, described as
a sort of environmental sentinel ante
litteram.
Zagabria - Moderna Galerija - inv. MG-690 - courtesy Civita
Tre Venezia
Monte Civetta
model
Edward Theodore
Compton - Paesaggio delle Dolomiti
- 1872-1882
oil on canvas – 149.6
x 93.2 cm
Franca Lugato
Co-curator
Edward Theodore Compton - Cortina
“…Conegliano, with its
strategic positioning, in the middle of the Prosecco hills and sentinel to the
Dolomites, anticipates, with this large exhibition, important sporting events
such as the 2026 Winter Olympics. The itinerary develops around the theme of
the mountain, creating opportunities for further study, helping to discover how
attention and love for the peaks were born with the first climbs, the interests
for painting and advertising, the establishment of the first alpine clubs. The
fascination for the mountains celebrated in the exhibition
are the meeting point and a common cultural base
for the whole region.”
Fabio Chies
Mayor of Conegliano
Francesco Sartorelli - Ave
Maria – 1890 ca.
oil on canvas
Napoleone Cozzi – Untitled – Prealpi Clautane – 1902
watercolor on paper –
photographs – newspaper clippings
Napoleone Cozzi - 1867-1916 - is one of the first solo mountaineers
in the Dolomites and pioneer of
sport climbing in Trieste. On
display are three of his notebooks which with delicate watercolors capture the
high routes traveled during the explorations made with his so-called
"flying team", two of which in 1898 towards the Julian Prealps and one in 1902 with the ascent of the Clautan Prealps, now known as the Friulian Dolomites. The notebooks allow
us to relive these experiences, thanks also to the amusing and often ironic, captions
that accompany them.
poster - su concessione del Ministero per i beni e le
attività culturali e per il turismo – courtesy Civita Tre Venezie
Treviso - Museo Nazionale Collezione Salce - Polo
Museale del Veneto
Sandro Bidasio Degli Imberti – aka Sabi
Dolomiti provincia di Belluno
1950 ca. - photomechanical reproduction - 35 x 25 cm, inv. 07805 162D
A selection of advertising posters of winter sports, from the first decades
of the twentieth century from the Salce
di Treviso collection enriches the exhibition, in particular thanks to the
works of the Austrian-Italian Franz
Lenhart focusing on the Dolomites and
Cortina. They are perfect in the
modernist style, in the typeset of the characters, in the decorative simplicity
of the landscapes and in the lively chromatic range, they tell us about a
young, happy and dynamic mountain.
The exhibition is promoted by the Comune di Conegliano and Civita Tre Venezie, with the
participation of the Regione Veneto and
the patronage of the Fondazione Cortina
2021, the collaboration of the CAI di Conegliano and the Societa
Alpina delle Giulie di Trieste. The catalogue
with the essays and
the texts by the curators and published by Marsilio
Editori.