Hammershøi and the painters of silence: the first Italian exhibition dedicated to the Danish painter at Palazzo Roverella

At Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo, the first Italian exhibition dedicated to Vilhelm Hammershøi (Copenaghen, 1864-1916), the greatest Danish painter of his time, a protagonist of European art between the late 19th and early 20th century.

 

The exhibition, Hammershøi e i pittori del silenzio tra il Nord Europa e l’Italia, presents in 2025 not only the first Italian exhibition dedicated to the Danish painter, but the only one on an international level.

 

His work is compared with the creations of artists contemporary to him, between Northern Europe and Italy. A painting that tells of silence and introspection, where domestic environments as well as city views describe landscapes of the soul. But in Hammershøi there is something more, his women, portrayed almost always from behind, in orderly and calm environments, portray as much serenity as secret dramas or rather the expectation of new happenings.

 

More than 100 works accompany the visitor in the discovery of a painting that is rarely investigated as much as it is mysterious and fascinating.

 

The exhibition is promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, the Municipality of Rovigo and the Accademia dei Concordi, with the support of Intesa Sanpaolo and the curatorship of Paolo Bolpagni.