Dipinti da ascoltare

Voices and silences of Art

Rue Aurea presents an exclusive project: Dipinti da Ascoltare (Paintings to Listen To), a sound-driven, immersive format that complements our traditional work of scientific, historical, and biographical research on artworks.

While in our monographic studies we analyze paintings with scientific rigor, in this digital space art transforms into pure listening.

The paintings come to life through original monologues, written by drawing inspiration from the subject, the atmosphere, and the very soul of the canvas.

The words, performed by professional actors—often in regional dialects or period language—give voice to the characters, the places, and the silences within the scene.

Dipinti da Ascoltare offers an immersion into the secret soul of a painting: no technical explanations, but an emotional, personal, and at times poignant or poetic journey through memory, storytelling, and identity.

Inside every painting, there is a voice just waiting to be heard.

Consalvo Carelli (Naples, 1818 – Naples, 1900)

Mattino sulla spiaggia di Chiatamone: pescatori luciani tra il Castel dell’Ovo, il Vesuvio e il Casino Reale

(“Morning on the Beach of Chiatamone: Luciani Fishermen Between Castel dell'Ovo, Mount Vesuvius, and the Royal Casino”)

Date: 1845/1850

Oil on panel, signed lower right

Dimensions: cm 25 x 40

Voice: Andrea Lubrano di Giunno

Luigi Scaffai (Livorno, 1837 – 1899)

La Pesca”

(“Fishing”)

Date:1885 circa

Oil on canvas, signed lower right

Dimensions: 65 x 86 cm

Voice: Alessandro Corsi