Il Cinquecento a Ferrara. Mazzolino, Ortolano, Garofalo, Dosso
Exhibitions
The exhibition recounts the story of early 16th-century painting in Ferrara, from the years of the handover from Duke Ercole I d’Este to his son Alfonso I (1505), until the death of the latter (1534), a refined and ambitious patron, capable of renovating the private spaces of the court as well as the public spaces of the city.
The decline of the generation of Cosmè Tura, Francesco del Cossa and Ercole de’ Roberti placed Ferrara before the difficult challenge of a high-level artistic change. At the beginning of the new century, a new school developed, more open to exchanges with other centers, which had four masters as its protagonists: Ludovico Mazzolino, a painter with a bizarre flair who oriented his language in an anti-classical direction; Giovan Battista Benvenuti, known as l’Ortolano, still characterised instead a convinced and sincere naturalism; Benvenuto Tisi, known as Garofalo, the main local interpreter of Raphael’s manner, and Giovanni Luteri, known as Dosso, who developed an original, cultured and amused style, influenced by Giorgione and Titian as much as by Michelangelo’s Rome.
The exhibition will will take the visitor through an incredibly rich season, where the ancient and the modern, the sacred and the profane, history and fairy tale come together in a figurative world that can be defined, in a word, as Ferrarese.
Where
When
From October, 12th to February, 16th, 2025
Opening
Open everyday 9.30-19.30.
Event url
http://www.palazzodiamanti.itPrice
full € 15,
red. 12,00 euro (groups 15-25 people, for other categories see the website).
Youngs 6-18 anni € 5
Free under 6, from 67% rating disabled people people with a carer
Online purchase (booking fee € 1.50)
