{"id":33999,"date":"2017-01-09T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/?p=33999"},"modified":"2022-07-30T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T16:18:48","slug":"come-si-visita-un-museo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/come-si-visita-un-museo","title":{"rendered":"Come visitare un museo\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting a museum can be frustrating: imagine that you don\u2019t really know what\u2019s inside. Ancient art, old paintings, sculptures from unknown cultures. It can be really frustrating and boring.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t honestly say that about the magnificient Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia in Venice. Giovanni Bellini, Gianbattista Tiepolo, Giorgione, Veronese, Jheronimus Bosch, you name them, they\u2019re there. In any other country they\u2019d build a whole museum around a single one of these many paintings and there in Venice they have tens of them. Walking and hanging and wandering through its halls can be really mind-blowing, I promise.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless there\u2019s a chance you wouldn\u2019t enjoy it: maybe you don\u2019t like arts, ancient arts oh no please. Or, as said before, you don\u2019t really know much about it and just got bored.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t bored at all few days ago at the Accademia but I realized after half an hour that I wasn\u2019t actually staring at the whole painting. I was looking for hands. I saw pale hands, slick and slim hands, fat hands, all superbly painted. I was suddenly amazed by the quality of these hands like it was the first time I saw hands on an old painting. Did they really have hands centuries ago? I couldn\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Schermata-2020-06-19-alle-15.53.36-1024x671.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Simply put, this is another way of visiting a museum: focus on a single detail and try to follow it through the whole exposition. It works pretty well in art museum like this, maybe less in contemporary art galleries (what can you really focus on at an abstract art exposition? Colors maybe).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Schermata-2020-06-19-alle-15.53.44-1024x675.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marco Marziale, La cena di Emmaus, 1500 ca.<\/p>\n<p>Once I listened to a pianist saying that a good way to listen to the music, especially classic music, is to follow the cello. Spot it and try to follow.<br \/>\nAt the beginning you\u2019d been thinking you\u2019re not paying enough attention to all the rest but suddenly you realize that you are actually listening much better the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Schermata-2020-06-19-alle-15.53.51-1024x541.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"541\" \/><br \/>\nGiovanni Bellini<\/p>\n<p>Looking at small details in a painting is like that: to understand and find out what really matters in art. Small things that apparently don\u2019t matter. Take them away and the whole picture lacks something. Something really important: details build the broad experience. Details are the cello we should sometimes follow. Maybe they won\u2019t explain arts but they can be really fun. And beautiful, like these hands at the Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they won\u2019t explain arts but they can be really fun.<\/p>\n<p>And beautiful, like these hands at the Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1_khCloDfMcwsPUkOoPnMjcg-820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Giovanni Bellini, Madonna con il Bambino Benedicente<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unwise yet wise guide<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,149,91],"tags":[316,318,112,110],"class_list":["post-33999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-cinema","category-cultura","tag-musei","tag-museum","tag-venezia","tag-venice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}