The Gonzato Wrought Iron Collection is open to the general public for the first time ever. Read more about the "Cast and Forge" show!
The about 90 pieces selected are mainly small bronzes from the the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, but there are also some remarkable paintings and prints of the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. The leading theme is the world of the blacksmith. As a matter of fact, all
works of art represent the blacksmith seen through the eyes of various artists that seize different aspects of such character and relate them to their time. Such collection is unique in the world, since it is thematic and crosses different period of times, styles and nationalities of the artists. 
The blacksmith in the bronzes of the Gonzato Collection” offers to the visitors an unusual tour focused on the blacksmith, starting from the representations of the mythical Vulcan up to the connection between the blacksmith and the birth of modern industry.
As a matter of fact, the exhibited collection does not focus on a single period nor on an artist, but on the theme of the representation of the blacksmith. Around such theme, it points out some precise aspects that differ from the point of view of the style, the symbology and the meaning.
The visitor can admire paintings of the seventeenth century portraying Vulcan in his forge and other blacksmith characters leading the way to the rising Industry of the early twentieth century, but also Otto Von Bismarck portrayed as a blacksmith to state that he is the man who will forge the destiny of the Nation and a Siegfried that forges again and repairs his broken weapon as a blacksmith.
The present exhibition is peculiar since it proposes a wide thematic collection identifying many other semantic aspects in it and their connection with the time of the various artists. Among the pieces of the exhibition, the visitor will find different works of art of big artists like Luca Giordano, Carl Johann Loth, Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, Eugéne Marioton, Julius Elie Delaunay and many others.
The high level of many of the pieces exhibited and their strong thematic content make such exhibition unique in the world and the cooperation of the municipality of Bassano del Grappa enriched it with scientific precision and cultural and educational meanings.
AND THE GLOBAL AWARD GOES TO...
Bruno Gonzato, President of IND.I.A. S.p.A. receives global acknowledgement by Ernst & Young Global.
For more informations go to: Ernst & Young Global Award
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