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Galleria della Biblioteca Via di Sant'Agostino 11, Roma

A visual atlas of the lost human being in the metaphysical city Photographic exhibition by Danilo Mauro Malatesta Curated by Marina Sonzini In collaboration with Blu Star International With the support of Archivio Appetito Vernissage 19 June at 6pm Galleria Angelica Via Sant'Agostino 11 Rome 19-25 June 10am-1pm and 3pm-7pm SUNDAY CLOSED Contact Danilo Mauro Malatesta www.danilomalatesta.it @danilocollodionartist danilomalatesta@gmail.com

VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT FLORA- Solo exhibition of Klára Sedlo

Galleria della Biblioteca Via di Sant'Agostino 11, Roma

Curated by Anna Isopo with the collaboration of Martina ScavoneSaturday, May 3, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. opens at the Angelica Library Gallery the solo exhibition of Klára Sedlo, who for the first time presents in Rome the project inspired by the Voynich manuscript.Called “the most mysterious book in the world,” the Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex dating back to the 15th century, written with a still undeciphered writing system and accompanied by images of plants that are not matched by plant elements traceable in nature. Starting precisely from such illustrations, Klára Sedlo becomes the creator of an extraordinary series of paintings in which, with scientific precision and rigor in the use of technique, the artist reproduces flowers, leaves, small shrubs and still lifes, reinterpreted in a modern key and in the light of that ascendancy that the oneiric exerts in her production. The genesis of the project is still in progress: at present the series consists of about 80 paintings, but it is destined to grow in the near future to include the nearly 150 plant illustrations popularized by the Voynich manuscript, now preserved at the Beinecke Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Yale University (United States), but discovered […]

Made in Italy. Primizie d’Italia in the ancient volumes of the Angelica Library

Salone della Biblioteca P.zza di Sant'Agostino 8, Roma

On the occasion of the National Day of Made in Italy on April 15, the Angelica Library is opening a bibliographic exhibition in the Monumental Hall that highlights a rich bibliographic heritage of works resulting from the ingenuity of great Italian artists such as Dante, Petrarch and Galileo Galilei, the craftsmanship of medieval illuminators, the work of early Italian printers, and rare and precious books. EXHIBITION INAUGURATION Tuesday, April 15 hours 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitable from April 16 to June 30, 2025 during public opening hours: 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.