Works and artists Ancient art Baroque Fragments Genovesino Six hundred
Luigi Lanzi wrote, in his Storia pittorica d'Italia (Pictorial History of Italy), that Genovesino succeeded in all themes, but especially in the "most horrific" ones. It is difficult to blame the abbot when one admires certain vanitas by…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art Emilia Romagna Genovesino Piacenza Six hundred
The Genovesino and Piacenza exhibition that recently opened in the rooms of Palazzo Galli, a valuable exhibition venue of the Banca di Piacenza, is more than just an appendix born on the heels of the success of the successful monographic…
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Exhibitions Rome Twentieth Century
Given its success with the public, the monographic exhibition Genovesino. Nature and Invention in Seventeenth-Century Painting in Cremona, curated by Francesco Frangi, Valerio Guazzoni and Marco Tanzi and running at Cremona 's Museo Civico…
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In the autumn of 1647, the quiet existence of the city of Cremona, which had experienced nearly two decades of relative calm after the great Manzoni plague, found itself disturbed by the events of the Franco-Spanish war. Cremona, the most…
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Exhibitions Ancient art Donatello Four hundred Meadow Michelozzo Renaissance
He is a little-known author, but he held a notable importance in seventeenth-century painting: he is Luigi Miradori, better known as the Genovesino (Genoa, c. 1605 - Cremona, 1656), Genoese by birth but Cremonese by adoption: it was in…
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