The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni presents its collection with the exhibition Art Collection. From Signorelli to Burri, which can be visited from December 12, 2025 to March 1, 2026 in the rooms of Palazzo Montani Leoni in Terni. The exhibition, curated by Anna Ciccarelli and strongly desired by the Foundation’s Board of Directors, chaired by President Emiliano Strinati, is an opportunity to discover a significant selection of works from the Foundation’s extensive holdings, which number more than 1,000 pieces and hold significant evidence of eight centuries of art history, from the Middle Ages to the avant-garde movements of the 20th century.
The exhibition project stems from a careful selection of the most emblematic works, organized in a chronological itinerary that aims to highlight stylistic affinities, continuities and ruptures between different eras. The exhibition features forty-five works that make up an ideal “museum of artistic memory.” From the refined fourteenth- and fifteenth-century beginnings to the experiments of the twentieth century, the visitor travels along a historical line in which the Renaissance tradition dialogues with modernity, making clear how much the past continues to nourish contemporary research.
The journey begins with some paintings from the circle of Taddeo Gaddi, and then reaches the Renaissance masters. Here works from the workshops of Perugino and Titian emerge, alongside the precious panel by Luca Signorelli, an extraordinary interpreter of the Umbrian and Tuscan Renaissance season. The next section introduces the dynamism of the Baroque and the intensity of Caravaggism, represented through paintings by Antiveduto Gramatica, Artemisia Gentileschi, Mattia Preti, and a significant Flemish canvas by Sebastian Vrancx, reflecting luministic innovations and increasing attention to the real.
The 18th century opens with the Venetian elegance of Francesco Guardi, whose view of St. Mark’s Square serves as a threshold to European artists who portrayed Umbrian landscapes. Indeed, the works of Claude Joseph Vernet, Verstappen and van Bloemen return their interpretations of the Marmore Falls, a place that fascinated many foreign travelers and painters.
The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are recounted through the transformation of bourgeois taste and the gradual rise of painting of the real: from Romanticism to realism, from Impressionism to the ferments of the early postwar period. Prominent in this section are two masterpieces by Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro. The itinerary then reaches the second half of the twentieth century, where the material experimentation and new abstract visions of artists such as Alberto Burri and Agostino Bonalumi emerge, witnesses of an era in which formal research opened up to innovative and profound solutions.
The exhibition concludes with a tribute to the great artists from Umbria or active in the area during the 20th century: from Piero Gauli to Ardengo Soffici, from Ugo Castellani to Umberto Prencipe, to Amerigo Bartoli, Orneore Metelli and Aurelio De Felice. Alongside the paintings, a small nucleus of works further enriches the itinerary: a series of portraits of cardinals and illustrious personalities from the 17th to the 19th century, a splendid Louis XVI-style bronze clock, some sculptures by Vincenzo Gemito and a contemporary ceramic by Piero Gauli.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog edited by Anna Ciccarelli, while the exhibition design is signed by Studio Sciveres Guarini.
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