Romain zaleski biography

1 april – 5 november 2023
brescia castle

curated by letia – letizia cariello and giovanni valagussa

press conference: friday 31 march 2023, 12 pm
open to the public: saturday april 1 2023, 3 pm

On the occasion of the events associated with Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023, Fondazione Tassara has decided to make a part of its invaluable collection of carpets, donated by Romain Zaleski, available to the public at large to enable them to get to know and appreciate a number of artefacts that are regularly displayed in temporary exhibitions in the world’s major museums. Together with Fondazione Brescia Musei, joint promoter of the project, it has entrusted to LETIA – Letizia Cariello and Giovanni Valagussa the curatorship of the exhibition The Knots of the Gardens of Paradise, which will be held from 1 April to 5 November 2023 in the new spaces, restored and reopened to the public after around fifteen years, inside the Grande Miglio in Brescia Castle, where the Leonessa d’Italia Museum of the Risorgimento is also located, on the lower floor.

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Romain Zaleski

Romain Zaleski, né le (92 ans) dans le 17e arrondissement de Paris[1], est un haut fonctionnaire français, puis homme d'affaires, un temps parmi les premières fortunes de France. Il est également champion de France et d'Italie de bridge.

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Romain Zaleski est né en 1933, dans une famille de l'aristocratie polonaise, troisième de quatre enfants. Son père, Zygmunt, est écrivain et professeur de lettres polonaises à la Sorbonne[2], délégué du ministre des Cultes et de l'Instruction polonais[3]. Sa mère est propriétaire terrienne, médecin et capitaine dans l'armée de l'intérieur polonaise Armia Krajowa[4]. Résistants, en 1943, pendant que son frère ainé André succombe de maladie à Villard-de-Lans, son père est arrêté en France, torturé à Paris et déporté à Buchenwald d'où il sera libéré par les Américains et décoré par Charles de Gaulle. Sa mère est arrêtée par la Gestapo à Varsovie en 1944 et déportée à Ravensbruck[2] tandis que son frère Pierre résistant ayan

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