In Treviso the largest ever exhibition on Paris Bordon

Scheduled for 2022 is the largest monographic exhibition ever held on Paris Bordon (Treviso, 1500 - Venice, 1571), one of the greatest Venetian artists of the sixteenth century, called by Venetian historiographer Marco Boschini, the “Divin Pitor” (a term he used only for Raphael and Titian). The exhibition will run from Feb. 25 to June 26, 2022 at the Museo di Santa Caterina in Treviso and will be curated by Arturo Galansino, director of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and Simone Facchinetti, a researcher at the University of Salento. The aim of the exhibition will be to recount the extraordinary quality of the work of Titian’s pupil, bringing together many of his masterpieces, several of which are on loan from the world’s most important museums, including theHermitage in St. Petersburg, the Puskin Museum in Moscow, the National Gallery in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, as well as the Uffizi Galleries in Florence or the Vatican Museums.

The exhibition aims to rediscover the variety and richness of the production of the Treviso genius through his sensual portraits, mythological representations, sacred scenes of the great altarpieces and small works intended for private devotion. Thus we move from the earliest “au naturale” portraits, of Palmesque and Titianesque imprint (the exhibition will display the oldest portrait painted by Paris Bordon, executed in 1523 and from the Alte Pinakothek in Munich) to those marked by a sophisticated mannerism, born in an international climate. There are numerous female portraits, often of courtesans depicted as mythological gods, evoking an ideal, distant and transfigured beauty. This is the case, for example, with the striking Portrait of a Woman in the Mirror from the Canesso Gallery in Paris. Also presented along the exhibition route will be splendid allegories, including Venus, Mars and Cupid, on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, or the extensive religious scenes, such as theAnnunciation, from the Museé des Beaux-Arts in Caen, France.

Another important novelty is the display of the monumental altarpiece with St. George and the Dragon, from the Vatican Museums, which will be on view for the first time after careful restoration, carried out on the occasion of the exhibition. Finally, an itinerary of comparisons and cross-references will be proposed, curated by the Director of Culture, Museums, Libraries and Tourism of the Municipality of Treviso, Fabrizio Malachin, to rediscover masterpieces scattered within the Treviso and Veneto territory, such as the marvelous Consegna dell’anello al doge by Paris Bordon, preserved at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice. Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog published by Marsilio Editori.

“A great exhibition that follows a very precise path under the banner of internationality and identity,” says Councillor for Cultural Heritage and Tourism of the City of Treviso, Lavinia Colonna Preti. “Paris Bordone, in addition to being one of the great names that have represented and still represent Treviso in the artistic and cultural panorama, will find precisely in the City that gave birth to the ’Divin Pitor’ the definitive exhibition, capable of telling how he conquered the visitors of the most famous picture galleries in the world. Now Treviso is getting ready to celebrate the ’Divin Pitor’ with an innovative and transversal exhibition.”

In Treviso the largest ever exhibition on Paris Bordon

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