The finest private collections of nothern Italian old masters on show in Brescia
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- Moretto da Brescia, “Visitation”, oil on panel
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- Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, “Rest on the Flight into Egypt”, oil on canvas
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- Andrea Celesti, “Samson and Delilah”, oil on canvas
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- Giulio Carpioni, “Allegory of Time”, oil on canvas
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- Faustino Bocchi, “Landscape with Heron”, oil on canvas
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- Giacomo Ceruti, “Two boys playing on the baskets”, oil on canvas
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- Giacomo Ceruti, “Boys with wine”, oil on canvas
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- Vincenzo Foppa, “Saint John the Baptist and St. Stephen”, oil on panel, Brescia, collection Ubi Banco di Brescia
From 1 March to 1 June, Palazzo Martinengo in Brescia will host the exhibition “Moretto, Savoldo, Romanino, Ceruti. 100 masterpieces from private collections in Brescia”. The exhibition features an international scientific committee: among others, Pierre Rosenberg (Academic France, former director of the Louvre in Paris), Mina Gregori (Professor emeritus , University of Florence ), Andres Ubeda (curator of Italian paintings in the Museo del Prado, Madrid), Zsusanna Dobos (curator of Italian painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) and John Spike (College of William and Mary, Usa).
The exhibition is focused on masters who have been the glory of the painting school of Brescia from ‘400 to ‘700: from Foppa to Moretto, from Savoldo to Romanino, Faustino Bocchi, Pietro Bellotti, Andrea Celesti, Antonio Cifrondi and Giacomo Ceruti. Some of their unpublished works will be exhibited for the first time, side by side with works already known to critics, including some paintings of the famous “cycle Padernello”.
Conceptual Fine Arts will be back soon to describe this exhibition, focusing on a more conceptual work on show: the altarpiece of the mysterious Magister Parotus (1447).
January 26, 2014
