‘Hayez nella Milano di Manzoni e Verdi’
Milan, Pinacoteca Brera, 13th April – 25th September 2011
‘Hayez in the Milan of Manzoni and Verdi’ – a new exhibition, as part of the 150th celebrations of the Unification of Italy, focuses on one of Milan’s most famous artistic sons, Francesco Hayez, author of one of the Brera’s most loved pieces, The Kiss.
With pieces from private and public collections, the exhibition has as its theme the ties, both of friendship and of cultural outlook, of influence on the Risorgimento, between Hayez, Guiseppe Verdi and Manzoni, he of I promessi sposi.