Santa Giulia Museum, Brescia
Moretto, Romanino, Savoldo 1512-1552
OCTOBER 18, 2024 – FEBRUARY 16, 2025
The exhibition The Renaissance in Brescia. Moretto, Romanino, Savoldo 1512-1552, is the leading exhibition event in the cultural program of Fondazione Brescia Musei for autumn 2024.
In the rooms, the paintings of the great masters of Brescian painting – brought to Brescia from six American museums and important Italian and European collections – dialogue with rare and precious objects such as ancient musical instruments, armor, tapestries and majolica plates, providing a suggestive image of the thoughts, feelings, objects and characters that animated the life of the city.
While on the one hand the activity of Alessandro Bonvicino il Moretto, Girolamo Romanino and Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo has been widely explored in over a century of studies, on the other hand a comprehensive account of 16th-century Brescia in all its richness, complexity and, in some ways, contradictoriness has been missing until now.
The point of view will therefore be centered around emblematic characters, such as Fortunato Martinengo, the nobleman from Brescia portrayed by Moretto in the painting preserved at the National Gallery in London, or the spouses Gerolamo Martinengo and Eleonora Gonzaga for whom sumptuous celebrations were organized, or even protagonists of a female “revolution” such as Angela Merici. Poetry, nature, music, love, faith, desire, research are at the center of this unpublished story through works, which begins with the evocation of the Sack of 1512, which brought Brescia to the attention of the whole of Europe.
By: Roberta D’Adda, Filippo Piazza and Enrico Valseriati
An initiative promoted by: Municipality of Brescia, Brescia Museums Foundation, Culture Alliance
Co-produced by: Skira Editore
With the contribution of: Lombardy Region
With the patronage of: Diocese of Brescia, Department of Historical, Geographical and Ancient Sciences (DiSSGeA) of the University of Padua, Tassara Foundation
Sponsors: Remed, EModa
Art conservation partner: SA Finance®, Unicredit, Unicredit Art Collection
Educational partner: Calvisius
Pinacoteca sponsor: Metal Work
Technical sponsors: Butterfly Transport, Brescia Mobility and Strategic Group
Visit with: Lombardy Museums Subscription
Travel partner: Italo
With the support of: San Floriano Committee Association; Notary Council of Brescia; Order of Lawyers of Brescia; Order of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts of Brescia
Special thanks to: Circolo al Teatro
