The exhibition “The Spitzmaus Mummy and Other Treasures,” has just opened at Milan’s Fondazione Prada.
. To get an idea of the magnitude of the operation, consider the numbers: The exhibition’s 537 objects were selected from 12 collections in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which displays more than four million artworks collected by the Hapsburg family since the 13th and 14th centuries, and from 11 of the Naturihistorisches Museum’s departments, rich in more than 20 million natural specimens. A rather titanic undertaking for Anderson and Malouf.
The same Wunderkammer spirit of eliciting from the viewer a sentiment of awe and wonder has been captured by the Fondazione’s exhibition; the space was conceived and designed to induce a feeling of closeness to the artworks and almost of domesticity, as if we were invited to a private tour of a collection assembled by an eccentric connoisseur.
Masterpieces by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Titian, and Peter Paul Rubens sit alongside pieces of Roman marble statuary from the 1st century BC, or precious furnishings and objets like the Phoenix, an ivory sculpture made by the Master of the Furies in the 17th century. “But the exhibition isn’t intended as a selection of famous artworks,” explained Mainetti.
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