{"id":374,"date":"2010-05-02T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T14:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-05-02T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T14:36:11","slug":"la-scapigliata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/la-scapigliata\/","title":{"rendered":"La Scapigliata"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week here in Italy was ‘Settimana dei Beni Culturali’<\/strong>, an annual event that offers everyone free admission to all national galleries and museums. This year we decided to go to Parma, which is just an hour up the road from us, and to visit, amongst other things, La Galleria Nazionale<\/strong> which is housed in Il Palazzo della Pilotta<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Our occasional days out in the city, trying to absorb relatively minute portions of the vast array of treasures that reside here in Italy, always leave us replete but rimbischeriti!<\/strong> (mentally exhausted!, see my blog <\/font>Che Stanchezza part 2<\/font><\/a>). However, amongst the blurred amalgam of memories from our trip to Parma, two in particular stand out: Il Teatro  Farnese<\/strong>, about which I will write in a future blog, and ‘un ritratto incantevole di Leonardo da Vinci detto ‘La Scapigliata” <\/strong>(an enchanting portrait by Leonardo da Vinci called ‘La Scapiglita’).<\/font><\/p>\n

Wandering through seemingly endless corridor-like rooms, adorned with the usual religious works of art that fill just about every gallery in Italy, we turned a corner into a small dimly lit area where Geoff, by this stage already reaching the rincretinito<\/strong> (brain dead) stage, glanced to his left and stood transfixed, mouth open for several seconds before exclaiming "Leonardo!"<\/font><\/p>\n

The sudden unexpected appearance of this small portrait, only 21 by 25 centimeters, so full of tenerezza<\/strong> (tenderness), of stillness and movement, almost seeming to contain an inner light, ci faceva venire i brividi lungo la schiena!<\/strong> (made our spines tingle!)<\/font><\/p>\n

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Scapigliata<\/strong> means disheveled, and is related to the word capigliatura<\/strong> (hair), hence the name ‘La Scapigliata’ (‘The Girl with Disheveled Hair’). The painting, executed<\/font> in olio su tavola<\/strong> (oil on board), is dated to around 1508, and is described as ‘unfinished’, yet to me it is perfect just as it is. I have always loved bozzetti<\/strong> (artists sketches) much more than ‘finished’ works of art which so often loose that sense of spontaneous passion expressed by the artist whilst under the influence of his\/her initial spark of ispirazione<\/strong> (inspiration, from the word inspirare<\/strong>, meaning ‘to breath in the divine influence’). It was fascinating to stand aside and observe the effect that this little artistic gem had on everyone who turned that corner and laid their eyes on it. Young and old stood mesmerized, reverential, speaking in hushed voices before a work of genius created just over 500 years ago.<\/font><\/p>\n

Adesso basta!<\/strong> (that’s enough), because words are futile in the face of such beauty. However, if you wish to know more about La Galleria Nazionale di Parma<\/strong>, and the works contained therein, here is a link to  to a wiki page (in Italian) dealing with the subject:<\/font><\/p>\n

http:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galleria_nazionale_di_Parma<\/font><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

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Last week here in Italy was ‘Settimana dei Beni Culturali’, an annual event that offers everyone free admission to all national galleries and museums. This year we decided to go to Parma, which is just an hour up the road from us, and to visit, amongst other things, La Galleria Nazionale which is housed in…<\/p>\n

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