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Almost eighty years after the last major retrospective, held in Vercelli and Siena in 1950, the Fondazione Accorsi-Ometto presents a major exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Il Sodoma. For the first time, the exhibition presents the public with the painter’s early work, which reveals a frenetic exploration of the artist’s diverse experiences, which led him to develop a highly personal artistic language. The fifty works selected, some of which are previously unseen or have never been exhibited before, come from prestigious private collections and major public institutions.
From the workshop of Giovanni Martino Spanzotti to the cycles of frescoes in Sant’Anna in Camprena (1503–1504) and in the cloister of Monteoliveto (1505–1508) in the Siena area, and finally to the extraordinary works produced in Rome with the support and patronage of Agostino Chigi, Sodoma undertook a long journey that the exhibition seeks to reconstruct in the artist’s mind. Confirming the intensity of exchanges between Piedmont and central Italy from the late 15th to the early 16th century, the exhibition includes a number of important works by Macrino d’Alba, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Eusebio Ferrari and Gerolamo Giovenone, as well as one of the various versions of Raphael’s Madonna of Orleans.
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