.:. art / Raphael, lost and found
September 14, 2014 through April 6, 2015
9:30am-5:30pm. (Tickets sold till 45 minutes before closing time)
slideshow .:. After the exhibition on Giorgione e Savoldo, and the one on Fra' Bartolomeo, the third round of the Brescia 2014-2015 series about Renaissance art is devoted to Raphael. The
Baronci Altarpiece, a very early work by him painted in Città di Castello, was damaged during an earthquake in 1789, and sawn into pieces. The fragments were taken to the Vatican, but after 1849 got dispersed. What of the altarpiece can be now recognized as original is exhibited here starting
from January 29, along with a preliminary sketch on loan from the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.
.:. Of the four surviving fragments, an Angel belongs to the local Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo - to be reopened in a couple of years, when restoration works will be completed. The other three currently exhibited come from the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, and from the Louvre.