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Speculum Dianae Magnificentiae
Etchings and lithographs of Nemi lake from the 1500's to the 1800's
Ariccia, Palazzo Chigi - Piazza di Corte, 14
30 November 2006- 31 January 2007
(click the photo to enlarge)
The exhibit shows, through etchings and lithographs dating from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century,
one of the most important places in the Province of Rome and the Latium Region, Lake Nemi. It is in the heart
of the Castelli Romani area, between the territories of Genzano , Nemi, Ariccia, Lanuvio, Velletri and
Rocca di Papa. Albert Christoph Dies, Lago di Nemi acquaforte, Roma, 1792  Romeyn de Hooge, Lacus Aricini Prisca Constitutio, bulino, Amsterdam, 1671  Thomas de Thomon, Lac de Nemi a cote de Gensano, siteie a six lieues de Roma, acquaforte  Henry Cook, The Lake of Nemi, litografia, Londra, 1840  Henry Cook, Lake of Nemi, litografia, Londra, 1840  Robert Wallis inc., Joseph Mallord William Turner pix., Nemi, acquaforte, 1844  Hippolyte Vanderburch, Enterremente d'une jeue fille, litografia, 1835 ca.  Jean-baptiste Corot, Lac Nemi, bulino, Parigi, 1855 The main focus of the exhibit is the Bartelli collection, the most important private collection on this theme, which is comprised of roughly 130 prints, which are either etchings, lithographs, or engravings, all having to do with the lake. Along with these prints there is also a series of paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries, which illustrate the very fortunate iconography of this wonderful location in the collective European imagination. For centuries Nemi Lake has been a favorite destination for many painters throughout Europe, who have painted the landscape surrounding it from various angles, sometimes with Ruspoli and Sforza Cesarini Castles in the background. Here in Nemi the two romantic poets, both sublime and picturesque, could co-exist. The former being expressed by the infinite landscape of the Roman countryside to the sea, with the Pontine islands in the distance, the second by the presence of the picturesque little fortified towns on the hills of Nemi and Genzano. Among the great artists who immortalized Nemi, besides Turner and Corot, there are also several other English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Scandinavian, as well as American painters, whose works can be found in museums all over the world. Nemi Lake in this way has become one of the great icons of the Grand Tour d'Italie, the educational journey to Italy made by artists and intellectuals from all over the world. There is presently an archeological excavation taking place near the ruins of the temple, under the direction of the Latium Superintendence for Archeological Heritage, which also manages the Museum of Roman Ships.
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