Guido Reni's The Slaughter of the Innocents on its way to Aosta

Vacation in the mountains for the Massacre of the Innocents, the most famous masterpiece by Guido Reni (Bologna, 1575 - 1642), a great exponent of seventeenth-century Bolognese classicism: in fact, the work is going away to Aosta where it will be the protagonist of the exhibition entitled Illustrious Guests in Aosta . Guido Reni’s Massacre of the Innocents, scheduled from January 13 to February 18, 2018 at the Regional Archaeological Museum in the Aosta capital.

The exhibition, curated by Mario Scalini and Elena Rossoni of the Polo Museale dell’Emilia Romagna (the painting is kept at the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna), has been announced as an “exhibition-dossier of a high scientific level.” The exhibition, in particular, aims to highlight Guido Reni’s debts to Raphael. “’The Massacre of the Innocents,’” Mario Scalini declares, “is in all likelihood Guido Reni’s best-known painting, which has become the most pregnant point of reference for understanding the master’s career, which has always been contrasted with the figure of Caravaggio. From a purely artistic point of view, it is important to realize the constructive path of the image in order to better understand the content filtered by the artist and desired by the patron. First of all, one must take note of the strong reference to Raphael that, intentionally the master wanted to implement?” To make the relationship explicit, the exhibition will also display a Head of Madonna attributed to Raphael.

The exhibition will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.: admission 6 euros full, 4 euros reduced, 3 euros reduced for Alpitour members. Free for under 18s and schools. Instead of the catalog, there will be a journal of the exhibition (with contributions by Mario Scalini, Elena Rossoni, Daria Jorioz and Anna Pelagotti), which will be sold at a cost of 4 euros.

Image: Guido Reni, Strage degli Innocenti (1611; oil on canvas, 268 x 170 cm; Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale)

Guido Reni's The Slaughter of the Innocents on its way to Aosta

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