On 6 April, the exhibition will open to the public 'THE IDEAL CITY. The utopia of the Renaissance in Urbino between Piero della Francesca and Raphael. " This is a 'major exhibition on the theme of the ideal city which is one of the most fascinating enigmas of the Italian Renaissance.

The exhibition aims to show how the painted panel, known as the Ideal City, preserved in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino, representing, together with the twin-painted with the same subject-Berlin and Baltimore, the epitome of Renaissance civilization flourished at Urbino and Montefeltro, in the second half of the fifteenth century, the work of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, the most learned and enlightened among the gentlemen of his time.

The painting, in the perfection of the perspective view that there is, is certainly the result of research and speculation across the board, both in terms of architectural and engineering and specifically in the field of philosophy and mathematics, so as to earn the fifteenth-century Urbino to civilization 'effective capital of the title "Renaissance mathematician" (André Chastel).

Beside the painting will be exhibited numerous works, about 80 paintings, sculptures, wood inlays, drawings, medals, manuscripts, and wooden models, which will illustrate the all-time happy renaissance experienced by small capital, squeezed between the mountains and hills Montefeltro, the hinge between the lands of Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Romagna. Container and at the same time a constituent element of the exhibition is the stunning architecture of the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, were involved in the realization of which the architects who invented the language of the Renaissance such as Leon Battista Alberti, Luciano Laurana and Francesco di Giorgio Martini, who are all three considered the possible authors of the board of Urbino.

Will exhibit their works of Domenico Veneziano, Sassetta, Piero della Francesca, Fra 'Carnival, Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco di Giorgio, Luca Signorelli, Jacopo de Barbari, Mantegna, Perugino, Raphael and Bramante, near-acclaimed masterpieces of mystery-but surrounded that we can not yet give a paternity certain precisely how the 'ideal city' and the famous Strozzi exceptionally granted by the board of San Martino museum in Naples.



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