A masterpiece for Christmas at the Lia Museum in La Spezia: Cambiaso's Adoration of the Shepherds arrives from Bologna

From the Pinacoteca in Bologna, Luca Cambiaso’sAdoration of the Shepherds arrives on display in Liguria, at the Museo Civico ’Amedeo Lia’ in La Spezia. Visitors to the Ligurian museum will be able to admire it from December 14, 2024 to March 23, 2025, on the occasion of Christmas.

The exhibition of the canvas, which has been exceptionally loaned, will also be an opportunity for in-depth study thanks to the display of a drawing that appears to be related to the Bolognese canvas, from a private collection. It will thus be a comparison between the drawing, in whose synthesis of sign is already the whole compositional idea, and the canvas, made presumably in the years 1565-1570 for the Casali chapel in San Domenico in Bologna by Luca Cambiaso. The replication of the painting itself is due to the local fortune of this relevant figurative text, as evidenced by the similar text similarly conceived during the 16th century, also preserved at the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna.

The drawing, which exceptionally, after nearly five hundred years, is reunited with the large canvas, introduces the complex issue of graphic art composed by Cambiaso and his workshop. The group of drawings by Luca Cambiaso, or imputed to him, though often accompanied by his signature, introduces the broad question of theautography of the sheets referred or referable to the Genoese master. The grandiosity of execution was echoed by the prolificity of signs. And indeed the production turns out to be so copious because of those agilities of writing and speed of execution that the master enacted with incredible flair, so that from the prototypes, of which there are numerous variants, derived an infinite number of replicas, autographs, and copies produced within the workshop, and beyond.

Also extended until January 12, 2025 at the ’Amedeo Lia’ Civic Museum is the exhibition L’arte di viaggiare. Italy and the Grand Tour(you can read our review here). "The extension of the exhibition L ’ arte di viaggiare. Italy and the Grand Tour until January 12 is confirmation of a great cultural success for our city," said La Spezia Mayor Pierluigi Peracchini. "With the arrival of Luca Cambiaso’s TheAdoration of the Shepherds, strongly desired by our Administration, the Museo Civico ’Amedeo Lia’ is enriched with a masterpiece of extraordinary importance from the Pinacoteca of Bologna, which celebrates Christmas with a work of intense spirituality and beauty, with a strong meaning. This new collaboration is an important signal that La Spezia is increasingly a hub for culture, and with this new work the current exhibition at the Lia Museum, one of the most important ever, gains even more notoriety."

Luca Cambiaso, The Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1570; oil on canvas, 234 x 161 cm; Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale)

A masterpiece for Christmas at the Lia Museum in La Spezia: Cambiaso's Adoration of the Shepherds arrives from Bologna

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