The collection of works of art of the
Commonal
Picture Gallery is devoted to an unusual artistic personality,
Orneore
Metelli, one among the maximum pictorial exponents of the current naif. He
was born in 1872 in Terni. After the elementary studies he went in the shop of
his father, helping him in his job of cobbler. Sensitive to the beauty,
autodidactic from the not common artistic sense, only devoted entirely himself
to the painting at fifty year-old age, receiving a discreet success, up to be
considered today one of the most important interpreters of the Nine hundred
painting. He died in 1938 while he was working to the layout of his last
picture ''
Gone out of the Theatre ''.
Two rooms of the section reserved to the
contemporary artists entertain 54 of his works, through which it is possible to
complete a suggestive trip inside a pictorial experience out of the commune.
Besides the works of Orneore Metelli the part related to the artists of the
Nine hundred includes a collection of
Carrà,
Mirò,
Picasso and
Kandinsky, as well as a section of the cultural climate and artistic
in fashion in the Terni of the years '30s, represented by
Quaglia,
Castellani,
Teofili,
Ciaurro and
Aurelio De Felice, to who must be
recognised the worth of having understood and promoted the genial quality of
Metelli.
Some real masterpieces can be admired in
the section devoted to the ancient works. Some are found among the most greater
realisations of the artists that have worked and developed their own art in
Umbria.
One of these is the small painting of the anonymous author, known as the
Teacher
of the Dormitio Virginis (name that derives from a present fresco in the
church of
San Pietro of Terni representing a Dormitio Virginis), very
important work of the XIV century that characterised in conclusive way the
development of a certain seam in the Umbrian painting. It follows then the
altar piece of a great teacher,
Benozzo Gozzoli, very active artist
above all at
Montefalco, through whom a discreet penetration of the
Tuscan Renaissance motives will be also in Umbria.
The other two rooms of the Picture Gallery
are reserved to two recurrent motives for the Christian religiousness, as the
Madonna
with Child and the
Crucifixion. Speaking about this last
iconographic theme, two interpretations detach on the others for merit and
originality, due to
Niccolò di Liberatore said the
Pupil and to
Giovanni
di Pietro, said the
Spagna.
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