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Cambellotti. Tutto diventa forma
Marking 150 years since Duilio Cambellotti's birth, this show reopens the castle's Cambellotti Rooms (decorated 1925-26) and gathers his textiles and decorative work where matter becomes form.
Under a laurel crown painted in trompe-l'oeil on the vault of the Sala delle Colonne lie the fabrics Duilio Cambellotti collected: Anatolian cloth bought in Constantinople in 1898, a child's Ottoman bodice stitched in gilt silver thread, a Chinese silk with horses and riders. Restored, they are on show for the first time.
The three Cambellotti Rooms were painted in 1925 and 1926 to hold the flags of regiments disbanded after the First World War. Foliage, horses, shields and banners share the vaults with no rank between them. Drawings, temperas and posters from his archive sit beneath, and you walk through to a soundtrack of flags in the wind and galloping hooves.
The director calls it deliberately compact, closer to the story of a self-taught artist than a retrospective, so fold it into a castle visit. It's included in the €18 castle ticket and closes 25 October. Some rooms are hard to reach with limited mobility; there is a virtual tour, Braille texts and tactile copies.
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The trompe-l'oeil laurel crown
Look up in the Sala delle Colonne: a laurel wreath painted on the vault as an illusion of relief, with his collected textiles displayed beneath it.
The Ottoman child's bodice
A small embroidered bodice from Constantinople, bought in 1898, worked in gilt silver thread on velvet.
The Chinese silk with horses and riders
A 19th-century silk fragment of horses and riders, the same animal that gallops across Cambellotti's own vaults overhead.
The Palio di Siena drawings
In the Sala della Cavalleria, pencil studies and tempera proofs for his 1932 illustrations of Siena's horse race.
The green moiré ceremonial dress
A 1911 women's ceremonial garment in green moiré silk with polychrome embroidery, once owned by Maria Capobianco Cambellotti.
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