The Great Organ of the Milan Duomo, an extraordinary masterpiece of art and mechanics, is at risk. With 15,800 pipes (the tallest of more than 9 m in the smallest of just a few centimetres) and 180 registers, this technological giant is the biggest organ in Italy and the second in Europe.
Type: Art and science
The “Piccolo” violin made by Lorenzo Storioni in 1793 is the subject of a complex and structured intervention with the acquisition, study, analysis, restoration and display to the public of a refined pearl of Cremona violin making, thanks to a partnership between Bracco Foundation, the municipality of Cremona and the Violin Museum as one of the activities co-ordinated by the Violin Making Cultural District.
During XVII Settimana della Cultura d’Impresa di Con?ndustria, Fondazione Bracco promoted at Città della Scienza (Naples), a conference with experts to illustrate the strong relationship between art and science.
The “Inside Caravaggio” exhibition is a unique exhibit that brings together 20 works by the master painter for the first time (from 28th September to 28th January 2018 at Palazzo Reale, Milan). For its 90th anniversary, the Bracco Group has contributed to the organisation of this cultural event by conducting diagnostic analyses on the works, which reveal the artist’s creative process.
Torviscosa is an example of positive osmosis between industry, the local area and the environment, where 14 years ago the Bracco Group recovered a part of the historic industrial site of SNIA Viscosa dating back to the 1930s in order to house SPIN, one of its most technologically sophisticated production facilities.
La mostra “Janello Torriani. Genio del Rinascimento”, organizzata e promossa dal Comune di Cremona con Fondazione Arvedi Buschini, Unomedia, Fundacion Juanelo Turriano e sostenuta da Fondazione Bracco, apre al pubblico dal 10 settembre 2016 al 29 gennaio 2017 al Museo del Violino di Cremona.
In 2016 the Bracco Foundation in collaboration with the La Scala Theatre Academy organised a cycle of four encounters dedicated to classical music and conducted by M° Fabio Sartorelli, lecturer in the history of music at the Como “G. Verdi” Conservatory and a lecturer in guided listening at the Milan La Scala Theatre Academy.
On January 21, 2015 begins the cycle of meetings “Giving birth with art, the art of giving birth”, dedicated to pregnant and other women. This multidisciplinary project is on the subject of culture and health, which has always been an area of attention and intervention for Bracco Foundation, scientific partner of the initiative.
An extraordinary exhibition dedicated to the Pollaiolo brothers, one of the most important held by the Poldi Pezzoli Museum with the support of Bracco Foundation, in Milan from November 7, 2014 to February 16, 2015.
Can technology, which continually revolutionises our world, bring to life a work of art?
The trans-media project between the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome and the History Museum of Bologna Genus Bononiae focused on the Sarcophagus of the Spouses, is a possible answer.