After more than 200 years, masterpiece of Romagna painting between '400 and '500 returns to Ravenna

A painting from the storerooms of the Brera Art Gallery has returned to Ravenna after more than two hundred years: it is St. John the Evangelist Appears to Galla Placidia, a work by Nicolò Rondinelli, a painter trained in Venice in the workshop of Giovanni Bellini. Executed for the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist, the altarpiece depicts a miracle related to the consecration of the church, which took place at the time of Galla Placidia.

The work is considered among the highest achievements of Romagna painting between the 15th and 16th centuries, particularly for its solemn figures, architectural structure and chromatic research.

It will be placed, at the conclusion of the new installation, on the second floor of the San Vitale monastic complex, in the rooms facing the large dormitory, where other works from the church of San Giovanni Evangelista, such as the 16th-century lunettes with the Stories of Galla Placidia, frescoed by Francesco Longhi, are on display.

Welcomed on its arrival by the Regional Director of Museums Emilia-Romagna, Giorgio Cozzolino, the Director of the National Museum of Ravenna, Emanuela Fiori, the Mayor of Ravenna, Michele De Pascale, and the City of Ravenna’s Councillor for Culture, Fabio Sbaraglia, Nicolò Rondinelli’s masterpiece returned to Ravenna thanks to the Ministry of Culture’s project 100 works come home.

After more than 200 years, masterpiece of Romagna painting between '400 and '500 returns to Ravenna

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