Wednesday, August 12, 6:00 p.m.
VALENTINA SAPIENZA
Augusto Gentili and the History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline: A Matter of Details
Cos.Mo Auditorium – Pieve di Cadore
Events - published on 12 August 2026
Source: press office Fondazione Centro Studi Tiziano e Cadore
Wednesday, August 12, 6:00 p.m.
VALENTINA SAPIENZA
Augusto Gentili and the History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline: A Matter of Details
Cos.Mo Auditorium – Pieve di Cadore
The book “Ritratti al dettaglio. Venezia e dintorni 1500–1575” was published in October 2025, just a few months after the passing of this great scholar. With his final work, Augusto Gentili sought to fill a historiographical gap that, upon reflection, is quite glaring: the absence, in the history of art scholarship, of a volume dedicated to Venetian portraits of the sixteenth century. The book reconstructs the forgotten stories of men and women based on the signs and clues that painters wisely scattered across the canvas. It is here that the detail reveals its full power: it serves as the lever through which private, and sometimes tragic, events emerge, intertwining with the broader sweep of History, conflict-ridden family relationships, unforgettable love stories, or inexhaustible melancholy that forever shaped the destinies of these figures. In a few fortunate cases, the detail even reveals a name, such as the one that has finally been restored to Carpaccio’s “Captain.” By retracing some of these stories, we will pay tribute to Augusto Gentili, to these forgotten protagonists, and to art history as a humanistic discipline.
Valentina Sapienza teaches Modern Art History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she founded and directs the RiVe Research Center (https://www.unive.it/pag/41456), dedicated to the figurative culture of the Venetian Renaissance. Her research focuses on Venetian Renaissance painting, with particular attention to the relationship between images, context, and religious thought, to apprenticeships in the artistic trades, and to the history of patronage. She is the author of numerous essays on the leading Venetian painters of the sixteenth century (Tintoretto, Titian, Leonardo Corona, Palma the Younger…), she has published the monograph The Church of San Zulian in Venice in the 16th Century (École française de Rome, 2018) and, together with Anna Bellavitis, edited and co-authored the volume Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice (Routledge, 2023). Her latest book, Leonardo Corona (c. 1552–1596), Painter of the Seven Manners (Il Prato), is scheduled for release in December 2026. She has also co-directed, with Anna Bellavitis and Frédéric Kaplan, the international research project ANR-FNS GAWS. Garzoni: Apprenticeship, Work, and Society in Early Modern Venice, 15th–18th Centuries. He currently coordinates the project Art for the Arts: Artistic Patronage of the Venetian Guilds, 15th–18th Centuries.
Wednesday, August 12, 9:00 p.m.
MATTIA TONON, violin
ELIA MACRI’, piano
Music by Mozart, Dvořák, and Seghizzi
Multipurpose Hall – S. Vito di Cadore
The concert features three sonatas by W. A. Mozart, A. Dvořák, and A. C. Seghizzi (1873–1933) for violin and piano.
Mozart’s sonata is part of the vast body of works that the Salzburg genius dedicated to the violin, an instrument he played especially in his youth and for which he developed an original and unique style, as in the Sonata K. 304 in E minor.
The Sonatina in G major by A. Dvořák, known above all for his symphonies, particularly the so-called “From the New World”, belongs to his chamber music repertoire and was composed in New York in 1893, marking the final composition of his stay in the United States.
The Sonata in G major by the Friulian composer A. C. Seghizzi (1872–1933), who can be considered a contemporary, will be performed. This musician devoted much of his work to the local ethnic and linguistic repertoire, creating numerous vocal and choral compositions based on texts by Friulian poets.
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