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We look forward to welcoming you at our booth n. 126 from Saturday 15th to Thursday 20th March. Here are some highlights… see you at Tefaf.

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TEFAF Maastricht 2025

MECC Maastricht, The Netherlands March 15 – 20, 2025 March 13 and 14: 11 am – 7 pmBy invitation only March 15 – 19: 11 am – 7 pmMarch 20: 11 am – 6 pm STAND 126

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At the heart of the scene: the extinguished flame At the heart of the scene: the extinguished flame 🔥
This close-up of Vesta’s statue reveals the symbolic turning point of the story: the sacred fire, central to Roman religion, has gone out. In La Vestale, this marks the fall of the heroine Emilia, punished for a love forbidden by her vows.
Migliara's choice to paint the brazier unlit—unlike Sanquirico’s stage set—emphasizes the tragic finality of this moment.
#ArtHistory #ClassicalMyth #VestalVirgins #Vesta #GiovanniMigliara #SacredFlame #RomanticPainting
Giovanni Migliara (1785-1837) Il Tempio di Vesta, Giovanni Migliara (1785-1837)

Il Tempio di Vesta, 1824

Oil on panel, 37 × 47 cm (with frame: 50 × 60 cm)
Signed: "Gio. Migliara fecit 1824"

A master of perspective and theatrical storytelling, Migliara here transforms a scenic design by Alessandro Sanquirico into a luminous painting that captures the most tragic moment from La Vestale, a choreodrama by Salvatore Viganò. The sacred flame is extinguished. The priestess Emilia lies senseless. What follows is her doom.
Commissioned by Giulio Ferrario, this work is a rare testimony to the collaborative spirit between painter, scenographer, and choreographer at the heart of Milan’s cultural scene in the early 1800s.
#GiovanniMigliara #ItalianPainting #Neoclassicism #TempleOfVesta #Viganò #Sanquirico #ScalaMilano

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