From Ohio to Ferrara on loan a work by Lorenzo Costa for the reopening of the Palazzo dei Diamanti

From the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, a work on loan from its museum collection will arrive in Ferrara on the occasion of the reopening of the Palazzo dei Diamanti scheduled for February 2023.

It is the Holy Family by Lorenzo Costa (Ferrara, 1460 - Mantua, 1535), among the most important artists of the Ferrarese school, which has been in the collections of the American museum founded by master glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901 for about twenty years. The go-ahead for the work’s loan is now official, after formal steps by the Ferrara Arte Foundation: it was the museum institute’s director Adam Levine himself who confirmed the news to Mayor Alan Fabbri and Culture Councilor Marco Gulinelli.

The latter, on a visit to the work, were accompanied by director Levine, who said he was happy that the twinning between Ferrara and Toledo has also begun under the banner of art and culture.

“We are delighted that Toledo, the city with which we have sanctioned the most recent twinning, is also on the lists of prestigious international lenders who will help make the reopening of the Palazzo dei Diamanti one of the most anticipated, important and international moments of the 2023 museum program,” said Mayor Fabbri, also thanking his U.S. counterpart Wade Kapszukiewicz, “for their collaboration and great closeness to the Ferrara community.”

The presence of important works produced in Ferrara between the 15th and 16th centuries in museums around the world can be traced back to the city’s transition to the church state and the subsequent dispersion of the Este collections.

Lorenzo Costa’s Holy Family will thus enrich the masterpieces, from abroad, on display at the exhibition Renaissance in Ferrara. Ercole de’ Roberti and Lorenzo Costa, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and Michele Danieli, which will open on February 18, 2023, marking the post-works reopening of the Palazzo dei Diamanti with an exhibition that aims to retrace through a large number of works by those authors the magnificence that made Ferrara one of the art capitals of that time.

Loans from other major museums in the United States and throughout Europe are also already confirmed. In particular, about forty works by Lorenzo Costa will be exhibited, tracing the stages of his life: from his beginnings under the influence of Cosmè Tura and Ercole de’ Roberti, to the years he spent in the Bologna of the Bentivoglio family, to his last period, in Mantua in the service of the Gonzagas.

From Ohio to Ferrara on loan a work by Lorenzo Costa for the reopening of the Palazzo dei Diamanti

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