{"id":25973,"date":"2026-05-13T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.villamanin.it\/?post_type=evento&p=25973"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:46:08","slug":"nuda-veritas-klimt","status":"publish","type":"evento","link":"https:\/\/www.villamanin.it\/en\/evento\/nuda-veritas-klimt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuda Veritas. Klimt"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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An exhibition organised by the Regional Agency for Cultural Heritage of Friuli Venezia Giulia \u2013 ERPAC FVG and MondoMostre, in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Theatermuseum in Vienna. \nCurated by C\u00e4cilia Bischoff\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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It is a work that is certainly worth the trip. For Gustav Klimt\u2019s \u201cNuda Veritas\u201d is not only one of the Viennese artist\u2019s masterpieces, but also a painting that intrigues \u2013 and then challenges \u2013 the viewer. It prompts reflections that go beyond mere admiration of the work. This is a truly exceptional opportunity to stand face to face with this sensational painting, which, from 21 May to 6 September, is on display at Villa Manin in Passariano (Udine) in an exhibition organised by the Regional Agency for Cultural Heritage of Friuli Venezia Giulia \u2013 ERPAC FVG \u2013 in collaboration with MondoMostre, the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Theatermuseum in Vienna. The exhibition is curated by C\u00e4cilia Bischoff.<\/p>

The painting depicts a naked woman, her nudity deliberately displayed, even brazen, totally different from the depictions of female nudes of the time. This is a self-assured woman who faces the gaze of those who judge her, without fearing it. \u2018Nuda Veritas\u2019, \u2018with her wild curls and her wicked, fanatical mouth\u2019, was painted by Gustav Klimt in 1899. It is an oil on canvas, measuring 252 x 56.2 cm, housed in Vienna at the \u00d6sterreichisches Theatermuseum.<\/p>

The orange glow of the curls and pubic hair stands out against the white body, drawing the eye. But it is a display intended not to captivate the senses but the intellect. For truth is powerful; it commands attention, almost the stage. And no one can keep it hidden.<\/p>

The eye is then drawn to the mirror she holds, not turned towards herself but towards the viewer: an invitation to reflect; almost a defiant gesture. The gaze extends to a pearly, iridescent sky, to the snake winding its way up the woman\u2019s leg, to the plump magnolia blossoms… Nothing here is random; it feels as though we are witnessing\u2014perhaps unable to fully decipher it\u2014a powerful, vital coded message. Klimt did not paint a \u2018nude\u2019 in the guise of an allegory, but rather painted an allegory in the guise of nudity. Truth is a precarious construct. Strangely indecisive and lacking in contours. Ambivalent and ambiguous, yet even the indistinct night has its qualities, for \u2018darkness not only veils things, but can also protect and conceal them\u2019. The composition, resembling a column that almost touches the figure\u2019s feet and head, is framed by two gilded panels bearing inscriptions. The snake rises from the frame, close to the viewer and at the centre of the composition, climbing over the lower panel bearing the inscription \u201cNuda Veritas\u201d. With its steel-blue body outlined in black and piercing eyes, the reptile moves away from us, wraps itself around the woman\u2019s calves and then returns in our direction. Two dandelion heads serve as luminous points of light. The inscription on the upper panel reads: \u201cKannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine that und dein kunstwerk = mach es wenigen recht. vielen gefallen ist schlimm. Schiller.\u201d<\/p>

(\u201cIf you cannot please everyone with your art and your artistic work = please a few. To please many is wrong. Schiller.\u201d)<\/p>

Although dated 1899, Klimt painted this masterpiece in 1898, and in March 1899 the work was included in the fourth exhibition of the Secession.<\/p>

The exhibition is organised across four rooms, allowing visitors to engage with Klimt\u2019s masterpiece through an introduction to the historical and artistic context of the Vienna Secession. Furthermore, the painting is accompanied by a graphic illustration of the same subject for the Ver Sacrum calendar and by reproductions of comparative works such as, by Klimt himself, \u2018Ancient Egyptian Art\u2019 and \u2018Athena Pallas\u2019, alongside Hans Makart\u2019s \u2018The Sense of Sight\u2019 and Olin L. Warner Herbert Adams\u2019 \u2018Truth with Mirror and Serpent\u2019, a bronze sculpture from the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in Washington. Of particular interest is the dialogue between Klimt\u2019s work and the fresco by the Parisian painter Louis Dorigny, located in the Sala di Flora at Villa Manin. Although not directly connected and separated by time, the two artists offer conceptually harmonious reflections on fundamental questions of human existence.<\/p>

\u2018The presence of *Nuda Veritas* at Villa Manin makes it possible to establish a dialogue between this uncompromising reflection on truth and a place which, in historical terms, also marks a paradigm shift.<\/p>

Former residence of the last Doge of Venice and Napoleon\u2019s headquarters, the villa was the setting for the Treaty of Campoformio, which marked the end of the Venetian Republic and redrew the political balance of Europe: a place of memories and a threshold space, now transformed into an exhibition venue.\u201d Mario Anzil, Councillor for Culture of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.<\/p>

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Moebius.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Special opening: Monday 2 June<\/p>

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