A journey to discover the Milanese museums and their glass collections: famous relics preserved in the museum spaces, true memory reservoirs that take us back through the centuries, putting us in close contact with the everyday life of time.
THEAssociation Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre it will accompany the visitor, involving and dragging him into previous historical periods like a time machine.
The guided tours will be organized as follows:
Tuesday October 5
15.00-hour 16.00
Antique glass al Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan, Corso Magenta 15, 20123 Milan
Visit by Marina Uboldi, Archaeologist and President of the AIHV Italian National Committee
Admission to the Civic Museum for the occasion is free. RESERVATION MANDATORY, up to availability of seats: promotion@storiadelvetro.it
Ancient glasses
In the section dedicated to the Roman age and entitled Living in Mediolanum Numerous glass vessels from the first centuries after Christ are exhibited, coming from different excavation contexts both locally and from collecting. The intact and best preserved objects were part of grave goods, where they had been placed together with other ceramic and metal vessels and personal ornaments of the deceased. The considerable number of objects allows you to observe the wide range of shapes used on the table and in Roman homes and to deepen a variety of processing techniques.
Among the specimens kept in the Museum, the famous one stands out Trivulzio Diatreta Cup, a splendid product of luxury craftsmanship from the XNUMXth century AD
Wednesday October 6
17.00-18.00.
Glass collection from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth century. of the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Via Manzoni 12, 20121 Milan -
Visit by Cristina Tonini, glass historian and councilor of the AIHV Italian National Committee
Free visit. Entrance to the Museum for a fee, according to current rates and agreements (https://museopoldipezzoli.it/)
RESERVATION MANDATORY, up to availability of seats: promotion@storiadelvetro.it
Glass collection
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum likes to define itself as “A treasure chest in the heart of Milan”. Open to the public in 1881, beloved by both the Milanese and the international public, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum enchants not only for the charm of the rooms, which evoke the eras of the past from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century up to the Armory reinterpreted by the contemporary artist Arnaldo Pomodoro, but also for the variety and richness of the collections. Masterpieces of painting, including the famous portrait of a young lady by Pollaiolo who has become its symbol), sculptures, carpets, lace and embroidery, weapons and armor, jewelry, porcelain, glass, furniture, solar and mechanical clocks: over 5000 objects extraordinary, from antiquity to the nineteenth century, immersed in a magical atmosphere.
About two hundred antique glasses belong to the collection, partly purchased by Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli and then enlarged by the first directors. The main nucleus is made up of Murano glass from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and well represents the different techniques of working and decorating glass in Venice. This is accompanied by archaeological, but also German and Bohemian pieces.
Thursday 13th October
16.00-hour 17.00.
Glass collection of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Via Gesù, 5, 20121 Milan -
Visit by Cristina Tonini, glass historian and councilor of the AIHV Italian National Committee
Free visit. Entrance to the Museum for a fee, according to current rates and agreements (https://museobagattivalsecchi.org/)
RESERVATION MANDATORY, up to availability of seats: promotion@storiadelvetro.it
Glass collection from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth century.
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a house museum resulting from an extraordinary collector's event of the late nineteenth century, which has two brothers as protagonists: the barons Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi. Starting from the XNUMXs, the two brothers dedicated themselves to the renovation of the family home located in the heart of Milan: a building between via Gesù and via Santo Spirito, today in the center of the fashion district. At the same time, they began to collect XNUMXth-XNUMXth century paintings and artifacts of applied art with the intention of setting them up in their home so as to create a dwelling inspired by XNUMXth-century Lombard homes.
In line with the domestic style of the Bagatti Valsecchi set-up, the glass collection is set up within the windows of the dining room; the artifacts are arranged next to ceramic plates and risers creating a dense score, where works from different eras are freely juxtaposed in the name of decorative effectiveness. The predilections of the two brothers are oriented towards the Murano production, represented by glass that is arranged along a wide chronological span, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
Friday 14th October
15.00-hour 16.00
Antique glass - Contemporary glass from the Bellini-Pezzoli Collection - Exhibition Brindisi of author al Sforza Castle Museum of Decorative Arts, Piazza Castello, Milan -
Guided tour by Fiorella Mattio, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Applied Art Collections, Castello Sforzesco.
Admission to the Museum for the occasion is free.
RESERVATION MANDATORY, up to availability of seats: promotion@storiadelvetro.it
Antique glass - Contemporary glass from the Bellini-Pezzoli Collection - Exhibition Author's toast
In the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Castello Sforzesco there is a collection of almost 500 glasses from the fifteenth to the twentieth century (exhibited only in part), among which a Murano glass with the insignia of the Sforza, datable to the second half of the fifteenth century (one of the older pieces of this type and therefore of great historical and symbolic value), and a very important series of glass from the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, acquired directly at the Biennials and Triennials by the Municipality of Milan.
To these civic collections have recently been added 48 glass works from the Bellini-Pezzoli collection granted in five-year deposit by the owner, Sandro Pezzoli, and important testimony on the art and design of works made in glass starting from the XNUMXs.
Finally, specially extended on the occasion of VITRUM the dossier exhibition on twentieth century artist and design glasses Author's toast. Artist glasses from the Bellini-Pezzoli Collection which collects 166 glasses of the twentieth century, each different from the other in shape, technique and chromatic choice.
All guided tours are by AIHV - Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre | Italian Committee.
Via Lorenzo Mascheroni, 31 - 20145 Milan
Email: info@storiadelvetro.it - website: http://www.storiadelvetro.it
