Rome, April 30 (askanews) – The Spanish Steps are turning 300 and the Keats-Shelley House in Piazza di Spagna, which acts as a backdrop to the famous monument, is celebrating with the exhibition “The Spanish Steps, Revisited”. From May 1 to November 1, the house-museum is offering the opportunity to retrace the design process of the famous staircase created by Francesco De Sanctis, through projects, drawings, and engravings by architects such as Giacomo Della Porta, Bernini, and Plautilla Bricci.
And in the rooms of John Keats's last home, he simultaneously exhibits the works of 23 contemporary artists, called to reinterpret in their own way the staircase that connects the Church of SS. Trinità dei Monti and Piazza di Spagna.
Curator Luca Caddia explained: “In the historical section we show the unrealized projects that were presented to the Capitoline authorities and the King of France from the mid-500th century to the first quarter of the 700th century, and all the ephemeral structures that had in some way affected the slope of the Pincio, especially in the second half of the XNUMXth century”.
And among the paintings, manuscripts, objects by British poets and projects from the past are the works created for this exhibition by contemporary artists such as Elisabetta Benassi, Stefano Arienti, Elena Bellantoni, Alfredo Pirri, Cesare Pietroiusti, Margherita Morgantin, T-yong Chung. Each of them spent time in the House-museum, a privileged observation point of the Staircase, as the curator Fulvio Chimento explained: “The exhibition for the contemporary part, this in my opinion is the very interesting aspect, is a brainstorming, it is a horizontal dialogue, in the light of the sun, of a series of possibilities for intervention on the Staircase, to make this place alive and pulsating”.
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