Sogno e realtà

The Middle Ages through paintings, photographs, artifacts, much history and a lot of Palio, all under the aegis of the Cultural Olympics Milano Cortina 2026.

Visitors will be able to admire “the dualism between dream and reality that has characterized the Palio of Feltre 2025 and offers a double perspective: on one hand, the Middle Ages imagined by artists, writers, and musicians between the 19th and 20th centuries as a source of myths and suggestions; on the other hand, the Middle Ages of festivities and popular reenactments, which transform history into collective ritual and shared identity, and makes real, with its social implications, a dreamed Middle Ages.”

Among the exhibited works, the painting by Lorenzo Delleani III in front of the destruction of Vicenza and the scenic sketches by Mario Pompei for the saga of Parisina stand out, coming from the Vittoriale, but there will also be figures of Beato Bernardino, Panfilo Castaldi, and Vittorino da Feltre.

 Of particular note was the restoration, supported by the Palio Città di Feltre Association, of some civic goods that will be displayed in the exhibition.

 Ample space is dedicated to the Palio of Feltre recounted through documents, costumes, heraldry, and banners, as well as the banners themselves, autonomous works of art.

Historical posters from the Collezione Salce illustrate how reenactments were bent towards ideologies or tourism.