Milan, this year's Christmas display falls to Perugino's Adoration of the Magi

The ways of Perugino (Città della Pieve, circa 1450 - Fontignano, 1523), and in particular of the works by Perugino conserved at the National Gallery of Umbria, cross paths again with Milan: as it happened last year, also this year a Perugino painting from the important Umbrian museum leaves for Milan for the usual Christmas trip. However, the actors change: the venue is Palazzo Marino, which for eleven years now has been the site of Christmas displays of individual works of art (obviously unrelated to the context), and the protagonist is theAdoration of the Magi that Pietro Vannucci (this is Perugino’s real name) painted in the 1570s for the church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Perugia, and which was commissioned from him by the Baglioni family (some members of which are also depicted in the painting), the most powerful in Perugia at the time.

TheAdoration will arrive in Palazzo Marino’s Sala Alessi on November 28, 2018, and will be on display until January 13, 2019. The curatorship of the exhibition has been entrusted to Marco Pierini, director of the National Gallery of Umbria. The initiative, the City of Milan specifies, will serve to restore the painting before it is transported to Milan. “Once again this year the City of Milan offers the Milanese and the increasing number of tourists visiting our city during the Christmas season an important work related to the theme of the holidays, which forges a strong relationship between our territory and that of Umbria, which is very rich in history, art and tradition,” says Culture Councillor Filippo Del Corno. “A link that will allow Milan to discover a new masterpiece for Christmas and Perugia to become closer to our city, also to the increasingly efficient rail connections.”

Milan, this year's Christmas display falls to Perugino's Adoration of the Magi

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