The Genova Pittrice exhibition is coming
The Genova Pittrice exhibition is coming. Masterpieces of the Baroque Age in the collections of the Banca and Fondazione Carige, from 6 April to 10 July.
The Genova Pittrice exhibition is coming. Over 30 masterpieces to celebrate the great season that the city dedicates to the Genoese Baroque.
From 6 April to 10 July, great Baroque painting is on stage in the splendid rooms of the seventeenth-century Palazzo Doria Carcassi, seat of the Carige Foundation.
Set up on the spectacular noble floor of the noble residence, the exhibition is part of the great artistic event that the city dedicates to the Genoese Century and presents a rich anthology of 33 works by Flemish and Genoese masters from the two art collections of Banca and Fondazione Carige .
The setting of the exhibition which is accessed by climbing a monumental staircase surrounded by frescoes, theories of columns and the perspective games of tromp l’oeil architecture is particularly suggestive.
The works, gathered for the first time in a single exhibition body open to the public, are located in the original seventeenth-century halls of Palazzo Doria, decorated with refined stuccos in the typical “Genoese baroque” style.
Among the paintings there are some well-known masterpieces but also works that represent a real discovery for the visitor. In meetings we show great masters such as Anton Van Dyck, Bernardo Strozzi, Domenico Piola, Gio.
Benedetto Castiglione, Valerio Castello and Alessandro Magnasco together with their pupils and followers, such as Bartolomeo Biscaino or Stefano Magnasco.
A particular focus is proposed both on the Caravaggeschi, such as Gioacchino Assereto and Orazio De Ferrari, and on the naturalists, such as Domenico Fiasella and Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari, and on their ability to stage mythological fairy tales, biblical scenes or everyday stories in large crowded and colorful canvases. .
An elegant and evocative setting accompanies the visitor along a path that places the works in an environment similar to the original one of origin, the Palazzi di Strada Nuova for the Bank’s collections and the complex of the Brignole Sale Institute for the Foundation, offering an encounter approached with the best of Genoese Baroque in painting.
The CEO of Banca Carige, Francesco Guido, states:
“Genova Pittrice expresses the deep bond existing between our Bank and the territory, a value that finds us perfectly in tune with the Carige Foundation with which we organized this exhibition and a dialogue on the themes of culture and territorial promotion.
For our Bank, art is an important asset not only for the economic value of our collections but above all because they express the great and noble things our community has produced in its history.
It is a heritage of beauty but also of creativity, passions and values that we have cherished for centuries and that we make available to the community “.
The President of the Carige Foundation, Paolo Momigliano, declares:
“We are pleased to participate together with Banca Carige in the network of initiatives that Genoa is dedicating to the Baroque and the 17th century, a period of maximum development and international importance for the city.
We do this with an exhibition of great cultural value, opening the seventeenth-century building of our headquarters to visitors, in the heart of the ancient Doria district.
We are convinced that the reflection on the past, on the values that have produced so much wealth of art and culture in our city, is a lever for that planning on the future and for the relaunch of this territory that our Foundation promotes and supports.
At the same time I would like to thank Banca Carige for its collaboration and availability, and underline the fact that this initiative of the Bank and the Foundation together, is intended to be the starting point for a new relationship, a positive sign for our entire territory “.
The visits are free and guided, will take place in compliance with current anti-Covid regulations and will take place upon online booking HERE
on Wednesday (14.30-18.30) and Friday (15.00-19.00).
The Foundation’s headquarters will also be open during the “Rolli Days” from 13 to 15 May.