" Historical novel the secret in glimpse Casarotto, Prof.ssa " Valentina Asiago Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, at 17.30 hours, at the Council Hall of the municipality of Asiago, l ' author vicentina Prof.ssa Valentina Casarotto will present his " historical novelthe secret in look", memoirs of Rosalba Carriera, first painter d ' Europe, Angelo Colla Publisher, 2012.
This charming fictional biography of Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera ' 700 masterfully revives the artist ' and his era, allowing the freedom of ' first-person narrative involving the reader in the ' rise of the painter and the secrets of the woman.
In literary fiction, Rosalba Carriera have come late in life on the brink of blindness, is preparing to write his memoirs.
It was a woman and a unique painter, aware that he represented an extraordinary model of female accomplishment in a century that not granted freedom of choice for women remained unmarried and built a career d ' artist of international fame while devoting himself to a minor genre, the miniature and the pastel portrait.
Contested by the European courts, portrayed monarchs like Louis XV of France and Frederick IV of Denmark, and was admired by the greatest artists of his time, including Antoine Watteau, who was perhaps his secret love.
The name of Rosalba Carriera today is known only to specialists and enthusiasts, and is one of the merits of this book the offer the general public a novel that gives a voice to a great woman of the past, returning to social conscience a bit of slow and long history of women.
The presentation will be accompanied by the projection of images of the paintings of the painter.
L ' author vicentina Valentina Casarotto, Professor and historian of art, ' worked many years to the galleries of the Accademia ' di Venezia, where in front of pastel portraits of Rosalba Carriera was born and raised the ' idea of his first novel.
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