{"id":4985,"date":"2026-03-02T17:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:57:04","slug":"the-light-of-italy-from-fattori-to-morandi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2026\/03\/the-light-of-italy-from-fattori-to-morandi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latvian National Museum of Art is hosting the presentation of the catalogue &#8220;Light from Italy: from Fattori to Morandi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 26 February, the catalogue of the exhibition \u201c<strong>Light from Italy: from Fattori to Morandi<\/strong>\u201d was presented at the Latvian National Museum of Art. The initiative, promoted and supported by the Embassy of Italy in Riga, marks the conclusion of a broader project dedicated to exploring the connections between Italian and Latvian art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition, open to the public from July to November 2025, brought masterpieces from the Uffizi Galleries to the Latvian capital, creating an unprecedented dialogue between two artistic traditions.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was attended by the Ambassador of Italy to Latvia, <strong>Alessandro Monti<\/strong>, the Minister for Culture, <strong>Agnese L\u0101ce<\/strong>, and the Mayor of Riga, <strong>Viesturs Kleinbergs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The volume, published in three languages (Italian, Latvian and English), is not only a guide to the works on display but also an in-depth analytical study of the aesthetic and historical links between the two countries. It includes distinguished scholarly contributions by <strong>Guicciardo Sassoli de\u2019 Bianchi Strozzi, Astrida Rogule, Elena Marconi, Vanessa Gavioli and Aija Brasli\u0146a<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the catalogue represents a milestone in the scientific and academic cooperation and in cultural relations between the two countries, as well as a valuable legacy of the project: a lasting testament that will continue to highlight its significance beyond its conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks are extended to the <strong>Latvian National Museum of Art<\/strong>, the<strong> Uffizi Galleries<\/strong>, <strong>Nuova Artemarea<\/strong> and <strong>Treccani<\/strong> for their valuable collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: \u0160eila Orlova \/ Colortime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday 26 February, the catalogue of the exhibition \u201cLight from Italy: from Fattori to Morandi\u201d was presented at the Latvian National Museum of Art. The initiative, promoted and supported by the Embassy of Italy in Riga, marks the conclusion of a broader project dedicated to exploring the connections between Italian and Latvian art of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985","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=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5384,"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions\/5384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}