Tea Talks 2025
Art Conversations at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
Tea Talks 2025
Art Conversations at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
After the success of its first edition, Tea Talks. Art Conversations at Casa Bagatti Valsecchi comes back with a new program!
Seven dates through the year, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., to discover in an original and engaging way the Museum's permanent collection and explore fascinating art history topics, in front of a cup of tea and the pastries by Pasticceria Cova.
The talks are led by two voices: Aurora Ghezzi, art historian and collection manager of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, and Susanna Gualazzini, art historian and curator of the Biffi Arte Gallery in Piacenza.
This year's seven appointments will explore cross-cutting themes, starting with the strong value of hospitality, a distinctive feature of the brothers Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi, told through the historical Museum's Guest Book, and then focusing on Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Boccadoro, a highly emotional novel founded on the value of friendship, and again a study of the iconography of saints rendered through an investigation of the most significant works in the Museum's collection. Before the summer, we will land in the English 1800s with the idea of ornament carried by the Arts & Crafts movement of William Morris and Edward Bourne-Jones.
September will see the unmissable talk with a special guest, Francesca Cappelletti, Director of the Galleria Borghese in Rome, who will analyze the relationship between patrons and artists starting with the fundamental role of Cardinal Scipione Borghese for Bernini and Caravaggio.
And finally, two focuses closely related to Casa Bagatti Valsecchi: the Wunderkammer and the relationship with music of the two Milanese brothers.
PROGRAM
February 19, 2025 Courtesies for guests. The art of hospitality and conviviality.
March 19, 2025 Narcissus and Boccadoro. Reflections of the self.
April 16, 2025 Sacred accessories. Attributes and iconographies of the saints.
May 21, 2025 The vertigo of ornament. From Owen Jones to William Morris.
September 17, 2025 Artists friends and enemies. A possible tale in the halls of the museum with Francesca Cappelletti, Director of the Borghese Gallery in Rome
October 22, 2025 Mirabilia. Journey through the treasures of the Wunderkammer.
November 19, 2025 Magnificent Harmonies. Music at Casa Bagatti Valsecchi.