{"id":4973,"date":"2026-03-02T17:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:05:39","slug":"the-figure-of-margherita-sarfatti-takes-center-stage-at-the-art-academy-of-latvia-in-riga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2026\/03\/the-figure-of-margherita-sarfatti-takes-center-stage-at-the-art-academy-of-latvia-in-riga\/","title":{"rendered":"The figure of Margherita Sarfatti takes center stage at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"query-text-line ng-star-inserted\">The Art Academy of Latvia in Riga recently hosted a masterclass by <strong>Guicciardo Sassoli de&#8217; Bianchi Strozzi<\/strong>, organized under the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Latvia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"query-text-line ng-star-inserted\">The lecture, titled <em>&#8220;The First Woman Art Critic: Margherita Sarfatti, the Biennales, Futurism, and Italian Exhibitions Worldwide (Including Latvia),&#8221;<\/em> explored the profound influence of <strong>Margherita Sarfatti<\/strong> on the 20th-century art scene. The art critic and historian analyzed the pivotal role of Sarfatti\u2014a Jewish intellectual of Venetian origin\u2014in promoting the Italian avant-garde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"query-text-line ng-star-inserted\">Key points of the discussion included: the connection between the &#8220;Novecento Italiano&#8221; movement and Futurism,\u00a0the international projection of Italian art across the globe, the specific historical and artistic links between Italy and Latvia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Art Academy of Latvia in Riga recently hosted a masterclass by Guicciardo Sassoli de&#8217; Bianchi Strozzi, organized under the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Latvia. The lecture, titled &#8220;The First Woman Art Critic: Margherita Sarfatti, the Biennales, Futurism, and Italian Exhibitions Worldwide (Including Latvia),&#8221; explored the profound influence of Margherita Sarfatti on [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4982,"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions\/4982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}