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| Mantegna and the Arts in Verona |
| Verona, Palazzo della Gran Guardia September 16th 2006 – January 14th 2007 Opening hours Every day (including Mondays and holidays) 9.30 am - 7.30 pm (last entry at 6.30 pm) Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 7.30 am - 9.30 pm (last entry at 8.30 pm) Admission to the exhibition: Concessions and special fees will be provided to the Congress Participants. For details please contact the Congress Secretariat. MANTEGNA The genius of Andrea Mantegna, one of the great maestros of the Italian Renaissance, will be celebrated on the fifth centenary of his death, which took place in 1506, with a great exhibitory event organised in three exhibitions opening simultaneously on September 16th 2006, in each of the cities in which the presence of this great artist is documented: Padua, Verona and Mantova. In Verona the exhibition’s nucleus will be the two great pictorial commissions created by Andrea Mantegna for this city: the Trittico di San Zeno dated 1456-1459 and the Madonna in gloria fra santi e angeli for the Olivetans at the Church of Santa Maria in Organo, dated 1497, and the strong impact they had on local figurative culture setting off one of the most important periods of Verona’s artistic history. 
www.andreamantegna2006.it Starting with these fundamental cornerstones, next to preparatory drawings and suitable comparisons with other paintings and etchings by Andrea, this exhibition intends to begin by presenting the multiform cultural mosaic on this city, from which very interesting, but for the moment little studied personalities emerge that are anything but minor ones: Francesco Benaglio, Francesco Bonsignori, Liberale da Verona, Francesco Dai Libri, Girolamo Dai Libri, Domenico Morone and his pupils. A real presentation of an artistic and cultural environment over a fifty year period, the exhibition will also have large sections dedicated to drawing, sculpture, miniature art, architecture, medal design and publishing with codes and incunabula. Mantegna’s entire graphic corpus presented on this occasion. Around 200 work of art, coming more than 100 most important international cultural institutions, whit loans from Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Cracovia, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Vienna, Washington, Milan, Venice, Florence and Rome. |
