Overview
An exhibition of over eighty masterpieces from public and private collections both Italian and foreign is underway at Palazzo Martinengo that directly compares the champions of Renaissance and Baroque painting active in Brescia and Bergamo during the almost four centuries of Venetian domination.
In the rooms a real cultural and artistic derby comes to life in which the works of the great Brescian masters of the Renaissance are compared with those of the Bergamo to understand how the common Lombard cultural substrate, enlivened by the innovations proposed by Venetian painters (Bellini and Titian in the first place), have given life to expressive languages in some similar cases, in other antithetical.
The pictorial exhibition of artists such as Foppa, Moretto, Romanino, Savoldo, Moroni, Palma il Vecchio, Cariani, Previtali and Lotto, is accompanied by four sections full of sculptures, musical instruments, paintings, documents, historical relics and vintage photographs dedicated to the deepening of themes characterizing the cultural identity and history of the two cities.
The exhibition was organized to celebrate the joint election of Bergamo and Brescia as "Italian Capital of Culture 2023".
Via dei Musei, 30, 25121 Brescia BS, Italia
