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Italian Arts & Design
Title: Leaf Necklace,
Artist: Buccellati Design
Medium: 18 k Gold and Diamonds
Dimensions: 20 cm long x 15 cm wide x 1 cm
Permanent Collection and © 2006: The Royal Ontario Museum, Gift of Mrs. Noah Torno
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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Title: Cobra Chair, 1902
Artist: Carlo Bugatti (Italian 1856-1940)
Medium: Wood, Painted Parchment, Copper
Permanent Collection: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Berdan Memorial Trust Fund, the Helen Johnson Acquisition Fund, and Decorative Arts Purchase Fund, 1995
Photograph: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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From
Michaelangelo to Rapheal and Bugatti to Tesio the Italians have long been leaders in the creative arts. Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum explores the Italian influence
on 20th century creativity with its exhibit, Italian Arts & Design
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Robert Little, Mona Campbell Curator of European Decorative Arts in the
ROM’s World Cultures Department, and curator of Italian Arts & Design at
the ROM states, “This stunning exhibition provides a unique opportunity
to enjoy a range of works from across the spectrum of 20th-century
Italian art and design, all brought together in one place, that would be
impossible to experience otherwise.”
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Title: Murmansk Fruit Dish, 1932
Artist: Ettore Sottsass (Italian b. 1917)
Medium: Silver-Plated Brass
Photo: Giles Rivest, MMFA
Permanent Collection: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)
Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection, Anonymous Gift
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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Title: Desk and Armchair, circa 1898
Artist: Federico Tesio (Italian 1869-1954)
Medium: Chestnut Oak, Aniline-Stained Wood Inlay
Collection: Galeria Daniel Balzaretti
Photographer: Marco Casale, Milano
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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Title: The Rice Field, 1901
Artist: Angelo Morbelli (Italian 1853-1919)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 183 x 130 cm
Private Collection
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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The prior century was an exciting time for the development of Italian decorative arts. The country
cultivated its regional
and craft-based tradition, leading the way in international industrial design. This groundbreaking exhibit is the first exploration
of the link between experimentation in fine art and innovative industrial design in Italy during the 20th century.
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William Thorsell, Director and CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum says,
“The ROM is pleased to collaborate with the distinguished institutions
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museo Mart of Rovereto, Italy, in
bringing Italian Arts & Design to Toronto. Visitors will
be treated to an extraordinary collection of objects, encompassing all
media and representing an incredibly rich period in the history of
Italian design.”
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Title: Sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
Artist: Umberto Boccioni (Italian 1882-1916)
Medium: Bronze
Photographer: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Permanent Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Lydia Windston Malbin, 1989
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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Title: The Classical Conversation Vase, circa 1926-1927
Artist: Gio (Giovanni) Ponti (Italian 1891-1979)
Medium: Hard Paste Porcelain, Gold Overglaze Decoration
Photo: Denis Farley, MMFA
Permanent Collection: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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Title: En tremblant Brooch, circa 1960
Artist: Max Halpern for Bulgari
Medium: Platinum and 47 Natural Fancy Colored Diamonds, 29.38 cts
Dimensions: 6 cm High x 6 cm Wide x 3 cm Deep
Permanent Collection and © 2006: The Royal Ontario Museum
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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The jewelry portions of the exhibit feature a pair of 18 karat white and yellow gold Acorn earrings and a Leaf necklace,
comprised of 77 round brilliant diamonds and one single cut diamond weighing approximately three carats, are from the House of Buccellati.
There will be an exquisite Bulgari designed diamond and platinum brooch. Each of the brooch’s three en tremblant
flowers is comprised of pink and yellow diamonds.
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Several pieces are from the ROM's Textiles & Costume, Earth Sciences and European Decorative Arts collections.
Among these is a distinctive, richly colored dress by Emilio Pucci and the Delphos, a finely pleated silk evening dress by Mariano Fortuny.
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Title: Dress Delphos, circa 1910-1920
Artist: Mariano Fortuny (Italian 1871-1949)
Medium: Pleated Silk Tabby, Venetian Glass Beads, Belt is Stenciled Silk
Permanent Collection and © 2006: The Royal Ontario Museum
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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Title: Detail of Leaf Necklace,
Artist: Buccellati Design
Medium: 18 k Gold and Diamonds
Dimensions: 20 cm long x 15 cm wide x 1 cm
Permanent Collection and © 2006: The Royal Ontario Museum, Gift of Mrs. Noah Torno
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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Title: Vase, circa 1957
Artist: Ercole Barovier (Italian 1889-1974)
Made by Barovier & Tosos Murano Italy
Medium: Mouth-Blown Mosaic of Fused Colored Glass Ribbons
Permanent Collection and © 2006: The Royal Ontario Museum
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum
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The exhibition is split into four separate themes illustrating the different periods of philosophical, economic and aesthetic discourse shaping the recent
history of Italian art and design: Boundless Optimism; Monumentality and Rationalism; Reconstruction and the Economic Miracle; Postmodern Testing Ground.
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Throughout past centuries the world looked to Italy for leadership in artistic endeavors and clearly
that continues today.
Italian Arts & Design
Royal Ontario Museum:
October 28, 2006 - January 7, 2007
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