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Two guided tours led by Andrea Nante, Director, Museo Diocesano, and Marta Previti from the Alberto Biasi Historic Archive.
In the morning, Andrea Nante, Director of the Museo Diocesano di Padova, leads members on a tour of the museum and the Palazzo Vescovile, where twelve halls display centuries of art through paintings, sculptures, goldsmithery, and vestments—a collection merging beauty and spirituality. The tour also explores the Cathedral Baptistry, an authentic medieval gem frescoed by Giusto de’ Menabuoi between 1375–78. One of the most impressive fourteenth-century pictorial cycles in Italy, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it directs the viewer’s gaze through the stories of Genesis and the Apocalypse up to the cupola, dominated by a vision of Christ Pantocrator.
During the afternoon, art historian Marta Previti guides participants on a tour of the historical archive and studio of artist Alberto Biasi, which documents history as well as daily life, a place where the artist continues his investigations and experimentations. The archive, carefully created by the artist during his over-sixty-year career, preserves catalogues of solo and group exhibitions, rare magazines, correspondence, articles, and newspaper clippings spanning from 1955 to the present.
The tour traces the stages of the evolution and investigation of one of the most prominent figures of Optical and Kinetic art, through artworks, archival material, and first-hand accounts, introducing participants to the heart of the artist’s creativity and the history of Italian postwar art.
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- Members only.
- Donation of 35€, 5€ for Young Pass and Young Pass + friend members.
- The tours are in Italian.