{"id":2473,"date":"2026-04-22T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:10:32","slug":"saint-francis-our-contemporary-between-art-and-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/en\/2026\/04\/22\/saint-francis-our-contemporary-between-art-and-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Francis, our contemporary between Art and Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Palazzo Baldeschi \u2013 PERUGIA<br>April 18, 2026 \u2013 November 1, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight hundred years after the death of Saint Francis, the Perugia Foundation pays homage to the patron saint of Italy with an exhibition that reinterprets the saint&#8217;s spiritual and cultural legacy through the eyes of some of the most significant Italian and international artists of the 20th and early 2000s, including Alberto Burri, Emilio Isgr\u00f2, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marina Abramovi\u0107, Maurizio Cattelan, and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Held in the spaces of Palazzo Baldeschi and curated by Costantino D\u2019Orazio, the exhibition proposes a dialogue between contemporary art, spirituality, and territorial identity, aiming to connect the region&#8217;s historical heritage with the languages \u200b\u200bof the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition brings together works that address themes deeply rooted in the figure of Saint Francis: the harmonious relationship with nature, concern for the poor, dialogue between all creatures, and the search for an authentic dimension of existence. Through different languages \u200b\u200band sensibilities, the artists reinterpret this legacy, demonstrating how the figure of the Saint continues to speak with extraordinary power to the contemporary world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A project realized in collaboration with the Galleria Nazionale dell&#8217;Umbria and with loans from important institutions, it offers the public a new perspective on a central figure in universal culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palazzo Baldeschi \u2013 PERUGIAApril 18, 2026 \u2013 November 1, 2026 Eight hundred years after the death of Saint Francis, the Perugia Foundation pays homage to the patron saint of Italy with an exhibition that reinterprets the saint&#8217;s spiritual and cultural legacy through the eyes of some of the most significant Italian and international artists of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterfly-transport.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}