The Return of Carlo Bononi's Saint Roch: Conference | Bologna |
Bologna Gallery
Conference
Free entry | Reservation required
17h00 - 20h30
The conference will be focused on the presentation of an extraordinary painting recently discovered by the gallery, an unpublished work by Carlo Bononi, one of the most important figures of the Ferrarese School of Painting from the 16th and 17th centuries.
To celebrate this important discovery and the temporary return of the work in Italy, the gallery has invited two special guests: the art historians Eugenio Riccòmini, a great expert on the Ferrara School of Painting of the early 17th century, and Giovanni Sassu, curator at the Museum of Ancient Art and the Cathedral Museum in Ferrara and co-curator of the monographic exhibition on Carlo Bononi recently held in Ferrara.
As Giovanni Sassu points out, the discovery of this work is of great importance in the knowledge of the great Ferrarese painter's artistic career.
Our Saint Roch, which can be dated to the 1620s, brings us back to the period when the painter from Ferrara returned to his home town after a journey in Rome.
In the capital he came probably into contact with the French painter Simon Vouet, whose style fascinated him for the naturalistic rendering of forms and chiaroscuro. In the light of these 'Roman influences', the usual attribution of our Saint Roch to the French painter can be explained. In this work, however, Bononi also seems to adopt the dark colours characteristic of Emilian School of Painting of this period, mainly through the influence of Alessandro Tiarini. The skilful play of light and shadow also confirms the artist's intense dramatic potential, accentuated by the dynamism of the figure.
Maurizio Nobile Gallery
Via Santo Stefano 19/A
40125 Bologna
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