(ANSA) – ROMA, 28 MAG – The exhibition ‘Arts and Crafts from Italy from the 6th to the 19th century’, organised in cooperation with Palazzo Madama and Fondazione Torino Musei, and coordinated by the Italian Embassy in Riga, was opened at the Stock Exchange Museum in Riga.
The exhibition presents the Latvian public with around one hundred works from the collections of Palazzo Madama – one of Europe’s leading museums dedicated to the applied arts – in an installation curated by the Director of Palazzo Madama, Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, together with the Director of the Latvian museum, Daiga Upeniece. Through materials, techniques and artefacts, the exhibition recounts the long and complex path of Italian ‘savoir-faire’, from medieval workshops to the height of the Baroque: goldsmiths, glassmakers, cabinet-makers and weavers are the protagonists of a history that has shaped the European artistic imagination.
In her opening speech, the Minister of Culture, Agnese Lāce, emphasised how museum cooperation operations such as the one between the Stock Exchange Museum and Palazzo Madama reflect the vitality of bilateral relations between Italy and Latvia not only in the cultural sphere, but in the round. A theme also taken up by Palmieri, who highlighted the role of Italian cultural diplomacy in Latvia as a tool for fostering new partnerships between professionals and institutions of the two countries. The inauguration was attended, among others, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baiba Braže, and the President Emeritus of the Latvian Republic, Valdis Zatlers.
The exhibition will remain open until 24 August 2025. During the summer, a rich public programme of meetings, conferences and side events is planned, aimed at highlighting the heritage on display and the excellence of the Italian cultural and creative system.
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The exhibition presents the Latvian public with around one hundred works from the collections of Palazzo Madama – one of Europe’s leading museums dedicated to the applied arts – in an installation curated by the Director of Palazzo Madama, Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, together with the Director of the Latvian museum, Daiga Upeniece. Through materials, techniques and artefacts, the exhibition recounts the long and complex path of Italian ‘savoir-faire’, from medieval workshops to the height of the Baroque: goldsmiths, glassmakers, cabinet-makers and weavers are the protagonists of a history that has shaped the European artistic imagination.
In her opening speech, the Minister of Culture, Agnese Lāce, emphasised how museum cooperation operations such as the one between the Stock Exchange Museum and Palazzo Madama reflect the vitality of bilateral relations between Italy and Latvia not only in the cultural sphere, but in the round. A theme also taken up by Palmieri, who highlighted the role of Italian cultural diplomacy in Latvia as a tool for fostering new partnerships between professionals and institutions of the two countries. The inauguration was attended, among others, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baiba Braže, and the President Emeritus of the Latvian Republic, Valdis Zatlers.
The exhibition will remain open until 24 August 2025. During the summer, a rich public programme of meetings, conferences and side events is planned, aimed at highlighting the heritage on display and the excellence of the Italian cultural and creative system.
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