AGREEMENT FOUNDATION LUNGAROTTI / VERONAFIERE: WINE MUSEUM OF TORGIANO EXPO 2015. A PREVIEW VINITALY 2 OF 27 WORKS UNDER THE HALL OF WINE EXPO

The Lungarotti Foundation has entered into an agreement with Veronafiere to bring the Universal Exhibition in Milan of twenty three thousand works of MUVIT, the Wine Museum of Torgiano (PG), in the form of the loan contract. For the occasion, Lungarotti exposes preview at Vinitaly (Pad.7, stand B2) two of the findings referred to in the Wine Hall of Milan.

For Chiara Lungarotti: “Could not miss to Expo a space dedicated to the history of Italian wine, whose roots are founded and intertwined with the cultural development of our country. The assets of the MUVIT gives voice to the extraordinary complexity and richness of techniques and technologies that have marked the millennial Italian passion for wine: be our most valuable pieces at the Universal is a privilege and a duty. ” The exhibition will be divided into six main themes, from a historical overview on Ancient Roman and Greek, and then explore the relationship between wine and myth, the use of wine as a medicine, the relationship between love and the nectar of the gods and, lastly, the relationship wine-power and one with the friendliness. Among the most striking works exhibited in Milan a Kylix ceramic black figures of the late sixth century. BC, a major bust of Bacchus Girolamo della Robbia (XVI sec.), a waffle iron engraved and chased the sixteenth century. and the cup “Drink if you can” Flaminio Fontana (1575). The two works in the exhibition preview at Vinitaly are a Bacchanal of white glazed earthenware, which returns the memory to the atmosphere neoclassical (late eighteenth century., Royal Factory of Capodimonte, Naples), and the bottle is mom splashes of Gio Ponti and made by the Cooperative of Imola Ceramica (1994), a metaphor of wine as a link between the past and the present, the future incubator.

The MUVIT, managed together with MOO-Olive and Oil Museum by the Lungarotti Foundation, was created in 1974 by Maria Grazia Marchetti Lungarotti, historian and archivist, with her husband Giorgio Lungarotti. With over 3000 exhibits, its collections tell five thousand years of history of viticulture in the Mediterranean through archaeological materials, collections of ceramics, graphic art and publishing antiquarian. The Wine Museum of Torgiano has been reviewed by the New York Times as “the best in Italy” for the quality of its art collections.