Major events in Piacenza: the return of the rediscovered Klimt and the Ascent to Pordenone

Piacenza is gearing up for an active art season that will see the return of one of the most beautiful masterpieces in the city’s museum collections, the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the past and the revival of an initiative that was a great success with the public and critics in 2018.

First and foremost, Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady, owned by the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art, will return to public display at the museum venue in December. The painting had been stolen between Feb. 19 and 21, 1997, and traces of it were lost until Dec. 10, 2019, when it was found in the garden of the same Gallery, in a gap in the surrounding wall. Released by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the painting is now in the vault of the Banca di Piacenza, to which it was formally handed over by the president of the Ricci Oddi Gallery, and there is already talk of a major exhibition that the museum could organize on the occasion of the Portrait ’s return to its halls.

From December 12, 2020, to January 17, 2021, the Banca di Piacenza will also inaugurate, at Palazzo Galli, an exhibition devoted to Piacenza in the past: numerous paintings depicting areas of the city that have disappeared today will be on public view.

During the same period, then, the city plans to reopen the Salita al Pordenone to admire “at altitude” the splendid cycle of frescoes in the dome of the Basilica of Santa Maria di Campagna, a masterpiece by Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis, known as Pordenone.

Major events in Piacenza: the return of the rediscovered Klimt and the Ascent to Pordenone

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