Show Palazzo Marino 2021
MILAN
Palazzo Marino
The Renaissance of Bergamo and Brescia
Lotto, Moretto, Savoldo, Moroni
The traditional Christmas appointment with the art of Palazzo Marino in Sala Alessi with "The Renaissance of Bergamo and Brescia".
An exhibition, curated by Francesco Frangi and Simone Facchinetti, which pays homage to the figurative civilization that developed during the sixteenth century in Bergamo and Brescia, completely original in the contemporary Italian panorama and capable of independently expressing what Giorgio Vasari called the "modern manner ”.
An exhibition, curated by Francesco Frangi and Simone Facchinetti, which pays homage to the figurative civilization that developed during the sixteenth century in Bergamo and Brescia, completely original in the contemporary Italian panorama and capable of independently expressing what Giorgio Vasari called the "modern manner ”.
Far from Venice, but also from Milan, in these two cities a pictorial school strongly oriented in a realistic sense is established, capable of profoundly renewing even the interpretation of the most common themes of religious iconography.
The characters in those events take on an authentic, everyday dimension, obtained thanks to the careful study of luministic phenomena and a non-idealised language, aimed at immediately restoring the truth of things and attitudes.
Through the works created in Bergamo by Lorenzo Lotto and those of the major exponents of the Brescian and Bergamo schools, such as Alessandro Bonvicino, known as Moretto, Giovan Girolamo Savoldo and Giovan Battista Moroni, the initiative of Palazzo Marino intends to illustrate the most spectacular achievements of this artistic season, whose naturalistic vocation will constitute the main source of inspiration for the young Caravaggio, in the years of his Lombard education.
In this sense, the exhibition event also wants to present itself as a tribute to Roberto Longhi, the great art historian who passed away fifty years ago, who, precisely in the context of his studies on the Milanese master, was the first to enhance the originality of the Bergamo tradition and Brescia and its decisive role in the genesis of Caravaggio's realism.
The characters in those events take on an authentic, everyday dimension, obtained thanks to the careful study of luministic phenomena and a non-idealised language, aimed at immediately restoring the truth of things and attitudes.
Through the works created in Bergamo by Lorenzo Lotto and those of the major exponents of the Brescian and Bergamo schools, such as Alessandro Bonvicino, known as Moretto, Giovan Girolamo Savoldo and Giovan Battista Moroni, the initiative of Palazzo Marino intends to illustrate the most spectacular achievements of this artistic season, whose naturalistic vocation will constitute the main source of inspiration for the young Caravaggio, in the years of his Lombard education.
In this sense, the exhibition event also wants to present itself as a tribute to Roberto Longhi, the great art historian who passed away fifty years ago, who, precisely in the context of his studies on the Milanese master, was the first to enhance the originality of the Bergamo tradition and Brescia and its decisive role in the genesis of Caravaggio's realism.
Lorenzo Lotto
Mystical wedding of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, an angel and Nicolò Bonghi
1523
Oil painting on canvas
Bergamo, Carrara Academy
Alessandro Bonvicino known as Moretto
Saint Nicholas of Bari presents the pupils of Galeazzo Rovellio to the Virgin and Child (Rovellio altarpiece)
1539
Oil painting on canvas
Brescia, Tosio Martinengo Art Gallery
Giovan Girolamo Savoldo
Adoration of the Shepherds
1540
Oil on the table
Brescia, Tosio Martinengo Art Gallery
John Baptist Moroni
Mystical wedding of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Francis of Assisi and a praying devotee
Around 1551-1554
Oil painting on canvas
Milan, Brera Art Gallery
Discover the exhibition ...
Works
in the Municipalities
They join the Christmas initiative of Palazzo Marino also Municipalities 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8 of the Municipality of Milan, for a broader knowledge of the city's cultural heritage, in collaboration with the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco.
GIOVANNI BATTISTA MORONI PORTRAIT OF GIORGIO PASSO
Town Hall 2
Milan, Cascina Turro Provisional Government Square, 9
December 11, 2021 – December 18, 2021
From Monday to Friday from 15.00pm to 18.00pm - Saturday and Sunday from 10.00am to 18.00pm
Town Hall 8
Milan, Villa Scheibler Via Felice Orsini, 21
December 21, 2021 – December 31, 2021
Monday – Friday from 15.00pm to 18.00pm 24 and 31 December from 15.00pm to 17.00pm Closed on 25 December
GIOVANNI BATTISTA MORONI PORTRAIT OF BARTOLOMEO COLLEONI
Town Hall 3
Milan, Council Chamber Via Sansovino, 9
December 11, 2021 – December 26, 2021
Every day from 14.00 pm to 18.00 pm. Closed on December 25th
Town Hall 4
Milan, Council Hall Via Oglio, 18
January 6, 2022 - January 12, 2022
Monday - Friday from 9.00 to 19.00 6 January and holidays from 15.00 to 19.00
PAINTER FROM BERGAMA PORTRAIT OF RA TORRE
Town Hall 7
Milan, Newspaper Library Via Cimarosa 1
December 11, 2021 – December 26, 2021
Every day from 10.00 pm to 18.00 pm. Closed on December 16th
TO ACCESS THE EXHIBITIONS IT IS MANDATORY TO PRESENT THE GREEN PASS AT THE ENTRANCE AND TO BE FITTED WITH A MASK
IN-DEPTH ON THE WORKS
The "Portrait of Giorgio Passo” (1569), by Giovanni Battista Moroni, is the first of three masterpieces from the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco which will be exhibited in the 5 Milanese municipalities. The painting has curiously given rise to a series of misunderstandings, because in the transcription of the document, in the 1981th century, "Passo" was read as "Tasso" and the philosopher Ercole Tasso was mistakenly thought of. Only in XNUMX did the mystery find a solution thanks to the scholar Alberto Bellotti: the young nobleman who points his index finger to ask for attention is in fact Giorgio Passo Preposulo, a jurist who held important public offices in his city, Bergamo, to which he was very close . Like the author of the painting, Moroni, originally from Albino and trained in Moretto's workshop, who was very active in Bergamo and Brescia, painting both portraits and sacred works.
The second work, again coming from the Civic Artistic Collections of the Sforzesco Castle, is another canvas by Giovanni Battista Moroni, the “Portrait of Bartolomeo Colleoni”, painted between 1566 and 1569. As in the medal settings, in profile it is half-length and the leader Bartolomeo Colleoni wears his armor with his head uncovered. Below him, in epigraphic characters, there is not only his name but also his origin: Bergamo. In addition to the portrait, there is an engraving, for which the painting perhaps served as a model, as well as a third version owned by the Bergamo lawyer Paolo Bisetti. This is a key work by Moroni for the attempt to naturalize and humanize the rigid fifteenth-century profile, typical of this genre of paintings. And he does it through a sensitive drafting, full of reflections, attentive to light and expressions, a mirror of the moral stature of the illustrious immortalized leader.
The third painting is the “Portrait of RA Torre”. The character is a count, Count Torre Tassis at the age of 82. In the painting appears a heraldic insignia corresponding to the Toriani family, whose Bergamo branch was known as "Della Torre" or "Torre Cortesi". But the particularity of the painting lies in the "removal": there is no celebratory or rhetorical intent. Now bald and elderly, the count appears in a close-up and this makes the analysis of his face very fascinating: it is illuminated by a soft and slow light that strikes his forehead and allows us to meticulously investigate his physiognomic details. The author is unknown, but he belongs to the circle of Bergamo people operating in the late sixteenth century and the work was painted between 1550 and 1575.
John Baptist Moroni
Portrait of Giorgio Passo
1569 - oil painting on canvas
Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
John Baptist Moroni
Portrait of Bartolomeo Colleoni
-1566 69 - oil painting on canvas
Painter from Bergamo
Portrait of RA Torre
Third quarter of the 16th century - oil painting on canvas
Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
Competition venue
Milan, Palazzo Marino, Alessi Room
Piazza della Scala, 2
Free admission
Date
2 December 2021 - 16 January 2022
Opening hours to the public
Every day from 9.30am to 20.00pm (last entry at 19.30pm)
Thursday from 9.30am to 22.30pm (last entry at 22.00pm)
Thursday from 9.30am to 22.30pm (last entry at 22.00pm)
Early closings - postponed openings
Friday 3 December from 14.00pm to 20.00pm
7 December closing at 12.00 (last entry at 11.30)
Friday 24 and 31 December 2021 closing at 18.00pm
(last entry at 17.30)
7 December closing at 12.00 (last entry at 11.30)
Friday 24 and 31 December 2021 closing at 18.00pm
(last entry at 17.30)
Festivity
8, 25 and 26 December, 1 and 6 January open from 9.30am to 20.00pm (last entry at 19.30pm)
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TO ACCESS THE EXHIBITION IT IS MANDATORY TO PRESENT THE GREEN PASS AT THE ENTRANCE
AND BE FITTED WITH A MASK
TO ACCESS THE EXHIBITION IT IS MANDATORY TO PRESENT THE GREEN PASS AT THE ENTRANCE
AND BE FITTED WITH A MASK
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