The Ideal City exhibition

About 50 paintings, sculptures, wood engravings, drawings and illustrated manuscripts are on exhibit at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, which acts as both container and architectural content for the exhibition, offering a precious key to discovery of the Renaissance in the city of Urbino and the Montefeltro area.

The exhibition is a voyage of discovery of the work of famous artists such as Domenico Veneziano, Sassetta, Piero della Francesca, Fra’ Carnevale, Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco di Giorgio, Luca Signorelli, Jacopo de Barbari, Mantegna, Perugino, Bramante and Raffaello as well as famous works which have not yet been attributed.

The exhibition starts with the famous late fifteenth-century painting of The Ideal City, with its perfect perspective cited by curators Lorenza Mochi Onori and Vittoria Garibaldi as a synthesis of the mathematical, philosophical speculation, architecture and engineering and fifteenth-century Renaissance civilisation.

(Agnese Bifulco)

Title: The ideal city. Renaissance utopia in Urbino between the time of Piero della Francesca and Raphael
Curators: Lorenza Mochi Onori, Vittoria Garibaldi
Dates: April 6 – July 8 2012
Location: Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino, Italy


Captions

01
Unknown painter of Central Italy - The ideal city
Credit: courtesy of the Cultural Heritage Ministry. Photos: Artistic, Historic
and Ethnoanthropological Heritage Superintendency of the Marches

02
Giovanni di ser Giovanni known as Lo Scheggia  - Wedding procession or Cassone Adimari 1440-1450 (circa)
Credit: courtesy of the Cultural Heritage Ministry.  Photo collection of the Special Superintendency for PSAE and for the Museums of the City of Florence.

03
Unknown painter of Central Italy - View of an Ideal City
Credit: © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

04
Stefano Di Giovanni known as Sassetta - View of a City on a Promontory
Credit: courtesy of the Cultural Heritage Ministry. Photo: BSAE Superintendency of Siena and Grosseto

05
Domenico Veneziano (Domenico di Bartolo da Venezia) - Miracle of San Zanobi 1442/1448
Credit: © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

06
1473 Workshop - Stories of San Bernardino: Miracle of the Stillborn Child 1473
Credit: courtesy of the Cultural Heritage Ministry.  Photo: courtesy of the Cultural Heritage Ministry. Photos: Artistic, Historic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage Superintendency of Umbria

07
Jacopo de’ Barbari - Portrait of Fra’ Luca Pacioli and Guidobaldo di Montefeltro 1495
Credit: courtesy of the Cultural Heritage Ministry.  Photo collection of the Special Superintendency for PSAE and for the Museums of the City of Naples