(12 June 2018) Fruit of a centuries-old agricultural history based on sharecropping and flower culture, the Marche landscape has played a fundamental role in building the region’s identity. The Italian Institute of Culture in Paris has invited Stefano Papetti, art historian and director of the Pinacoteca d’Ascoli Piceno, and Giorgio Mangani, historical landscape to introduce the Parisian public to the beauties of the Marche landscape, retracing its artistic and cultural history. The event will be on June 15th at 19:00. The experience of the Duchy of Urbino (1443-1630) is the key moment in the creation of the “landscape-garden” as a vector of cultural diffusion. This fundamental landscape element then found a pictorial translation in the fifteenth century in the works of artists such as Carlo Crivelli and Piero della Francesca, but also Leonardo Da Vinci in the Renaissance. The spell of these valleys and these mountains has also been immortalised by Montaigne in his “Journal du Voyage de Michel de Montaigne en Italie, par la Suisse et l’Allemagne, en 1580 et 1581”.
