At the Diocesan Museum of Brescia four masterpieces on display for the second edition of Adoremus!

The Diocesan Museum of Brescia is hosting the second edition of Adoremus!, an exhibition specially designed for the Christmas season and created in collaboration with the BPER picture gallery. On view until January 14, 2024, the exhibition revolves around the theme of contemplation, presenting four masterpieces, two owned by the Diocesan Museum of Brescia, one on deposit at the Brescia Musei Foundation, and one from the BPER picture gallery.

It starts with a precious 19th-century Orthodox icon depicting the Nativity of Christ, owned by the Diocesan Museum of Brescia. The panel highlights the uniqueness of the iconography, setting the different scenes within three cavities of the same mountain. It then continues with Bernardino Licinio ’sAdoration of the Shepherds from around 1530, on deposit at the Brescia Musei Foundation. A crumbling architecture provides a backdrop to the miraculous event; two shepherds, mediated by Joseph, pay homage to Mother and Son. Licinius presents a flowery nature, rich with green pastures. In addition to the scene in the foreground in the background, the episode of the Announcement to the shepherds, who with the flock populate the hilly landscape, opens.

The third work on display is the Madonna and Child with an Angel by Alessandro Bonvicino known as Moretto, painted between 1540 and 1550, also from the collection of the Diocesan Museum of Brescia. The sacred conversation features the angel offering a garland of flowers to the Child: the painting belongs to the strand of Moretto’s devotional works destined to have considerable fortune. The Venetian-derived scheme is perfected by refined colorism, made up of delicate hues that heighten the intimate, calm tone and human everydayness of the scene.

The exhibition closes with Alessandro Tiarini’s Madonna and Child, St. George and St. Nicholas of Tolentino, painted in about 1628, on loan from the BPER Picture Gallery in Modena. The four figures emerge from a deep penumbra and invested in light turn adoring glances to the blessing Child. The mute dialogue is amplified by the figures’ delicate gestures.

For info: www.museodiocesano.brescia.it

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Image: Bernardino Licinio, Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1530; property Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia)

At the Diocesan Museum of Brescia four masterpieces on display for the second edition of Adoremus!

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