Premiered in Venice as part of the events held on the occasion of the 81st Mostra Internazionale dell’Arte Cinematografica the documentary film Il Mecenate directed by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, tells the story of the first patron of the modernity: Galeazzo Arconati. Without him we would not have a history of great beauty. We would not all have the Leonardo da Vinci we can admire at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

A documentary film where, in 40 minutes, we can relive the myths, the stories of Diana and Hercules, of labyrinths and satyrs traveling with Phaeton’s chariot and the death of Laocoon, some of the statues staged at Villa Arconati. Through the fiction genre as well, the docufilm travels into the past by accompanying the journey history of the largest Roman statue found in northern Italy the “Pompey the Great” from the first half of the first century A.D., whose restoration filmed by the cameras reveals surprising stories of our tradition.