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n° 396 - luglio 2020 © Diritti riservati Fondazione Internazionale Menarini - vietata la riproduzione anche parziale dei testi e delle fotografie - Direttore Responsabile Lorenzo Gualtieri Redazione, corrispondenza: «Minuti» Edificio L - Strada 6 - Centro Direzionale Milanofiori I-20089 Rozzano (Milan, Italy) www.fondazione-menarini.it NOTEBOOK ‘So, as we were saying . . ’ A formula we use frequently when we want to pick up the thread of an interrupted conversation. In this issue of Minuti , instead of our usual rundown of art exhibitions, open or about to open, we will be picking up threads, ‘taking attendance’ after months of closures or post- ponements of events which should have been cardinal points of reference for art lovers all through this past spring. Raphael Stopped at Rome Thanks to the generosity of the lenders, the Scuderie del Quirinale has extended the run of Raffaello 1520-1483 until 30 August 2020. Raphael died in Rome at just 37 years of age, on 6 April 1520; he was buried, as he wished to be, in the Pantheon, perhaps the city’s most em- blematic example of classical architecture; he immediately became the subject of a process of divinisation which has never really ended and which has ensured that his art, its perfection and harmony, has lived on in history. Five hun- dred years after his death, the exhibition traces his life and the history of that Western figurative culture which took Raphael as an essential model from the very moment he ap- peared on the horizon. It pro- poses a journey backward along the arc of the master’s existence and creativity from the Rome of Leo X to Flo- rence, from Florence to Um- bria, and finally back to Raphael’s native Urbino. With an exceptional number of masterpieces from premier Italian and European collec- tions, the exhibition organised by the Scuderie del Quirinale and the Uffizi Galleries is a unique occasion to learn about an extraordinary artist who changed the history of the arts and of taste: Raphael comes back to life in exhibi- tion spaces that celebrate his universal genius. A New Light on La Tour The great monographic ex- hibition entitled Georges de La Tour: l’Europa della luce reopened at Milan’s Palazzo Raffaello Sanzio: Portrait of a Young Woman (La Muta) Urbino, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche Georges de La Tour: The Adoration of the Shepherds - Paris, Louvre