Queue Across The Piazza

Occasionally, some museums in Turin offer reduced price for entrance or even free entrance. Such as the first Sunday of the month, state owned museums offer free entrance. On certain holidays, other museums will also provide the same offer, such as the Palazzo Madama.

Here it was during one of those occasions and the queue extended across the piazza from the entrance to the palazzo.

Location: Piazza Castello

Wrapped Up

Renovation work on Palazzo Madama has started and the Statues on the top of Palazzo Madama are removed, placed in the piazza by the side of the palazzo, wrapped up.

Location : Palazzo Madama

Invitation To Pompei

Palazzo Madama presents the exhibition Invitation to Pompeii. An "invitation" to enter the houses of Pompeii, to discover what the atmosphere was, how they were furnished, what objects were used daily by its inhabitants, how they were decorated and embellished, through a journey into the Pompeian world.

In the majestic Sala del Senato, where Italy was made, visitors walk through the most representative rooms of the most luxurious houses of Pompeii of the first century AD. The Roman domus, for the first time in Turin, opens its doors to visitors, welcoming them in domestic intimacy and showing them the normality of daily life on the slopes of Vesuvius.

A blast from the past, which offers the opportunity to wander around those environments where the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. suddenly extinguished the life of its inhabitants.

The Pompeii of today is nothing but the skeleton of the ancient city, drained of all forms of life by the natural disaster and emptied of those objects that would allow us to imagine it as it was.

The exhibition is beautiful and terrifying at the same time....

Location : Palazzo Madama

World Press Photo 2021

The World Press Photo exhibition 2021 is again at Palazzo Madama from the 7th of may till the 22nd of August, but due to the restriction for Covid 19, we waited till June when the restriction was relaxed to visit the exhibition.

Some of the more famous photos have been shown online many times, but seeing them at the exhibition the emotional impact is bigger and more impressive.

Not surprising, Covid 19 has an obvious position in the theme of various photos.

Location : Palazzo Madama

World Press Photo Exhibition 2

The exhibition brings awareness of events around the world, telling stories through photograghs.

 

Each time, limited persons are allowed to enter and mask on is obligation.

Some of my favourite photos of the exhibition ....

Kawhi Leonard's Game 7 Buzzer Beater By Mark Blinch. Fun to look at all the expression of the people....

Roadrunner Approaching The Border Wall By Alejandro Prieto. Didn't know roadrunner is so small.....

Black Drag Magic - Portrait of a Drag Artist and Activist By Lee-Ann Olwage, Gorgeous shot...

The End of Trash - Circular Economy Solutions By Luca Locatelli, Very interesting....

Location : Palazzo Madama

 

 

World Press Photo Exhibition 1

The World Press Photo all began in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers organized an international contest (“World Press Photo”) to expose their work to a global audience.

For six decades, the World Press Photo Foundation has been working from its home in Amsterdam as an independent, nonprofit organization. In that time, the world has changed continuously, and new developments in the media and technology have transformed journalism and storytelling. Their mission has expanded, and they draw on their experience to guide visual journalists, storytellers, and audiences around the world through this challenging and exciting landscape. 

 

 

 

 

The purpose is to connect the world to the stories that matter.

 

 

 

Hong Kong Unrest By Nicolas Asfouri

 

This year, the the World Press Photo exhibition is hled in Palazzo Madama from the 9th of October until the 12th of January 2021.

 

 

 ISIS and its Aftermath in Syria By Ivan Pickett

 

Dorian's Devastation By Ramon Espinosa

We managed to visit the exhibition before the 2nd lockdown started.

Location : Palazzo Madama

CDP July Theme : Neighborhood

July theme : Neighborhood.

Staying in the center of the historical part of the city, meaning our's neighborhood consist of  the historical sites such as the old palaces of the kings and the queens....

The nearest ones are in piazza Castello, which is about 300 meters away.

Panorama views of both ends of piazza Castello....

 One end is the regional offices with flags and a banner : Reopening Turin

The other end is the Madam palace, now a museum with some very fine collection.

The street from the piazza towards home.

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Andrea Mantegna Exhibition

The Andrea Mantegna exhibition is held in the Palazzo Madama at piazza Castello, the exhibition was supposed to be ended in 4th of May, but due to the Covid and the lockdown, it is extended till the 20th of July.

It had usually a long queue to get into the exhibition, fortunately, on the first few days after the reopening, perhaps not many people realised it, there was no queue at all, so I was able to see the exhibition without much trouble.

Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. 

Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality.

His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting. 

He also led a workshop that was the leading producer of prints in Venice before 1500. 

Location : Palazzo Madama