At the Scuderie del Quirinale the exhibition Superbarocco. Art in Genoa from Rubens to Magnasco

Following the great success of Jean Clair’s Inferno, the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, with the special collaboration of the Museums of Genoa, present the exhibition-event entitled Superbarocco. Art in Genoa from Rubens to Magnasco, scheduled from March 26 to July 3, 2022, dedicated to the golden century of Genoese art, the seventeenth century, one of the most glorious seasons in the artistic history of all time.

The Scuderie exhibition, a choral and shared exhibition project jointly organized by the Scuderie del Quirinale and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., was intended to have a first stop in Washington. Despite the forced cancellation of the U.S. leg, due to the worsening of the pandemic last fall, the National Gallery of Art has maintained its role as co-organizer of the exhibition, which is now being held at the Scuderie del Quirinale and which confirms the opportunity for collaboration between the two great institutions of the two capitals.

The City of Genoa’s participation in the Superbarocco project is marked, in addition to the many prestigious loans to Rome, by the exhibition at Palazzo Ducale, from March 27 to July 10, entitled La Forma della Meraviglia. Masterpieces in Genoa between 1600 and 1750, and a series of initiatives that, united under the title I Protagonisti (The Protagonists ) and set up at the same time as the Palazzo Ducale exhibition in various museums and city palaces, focus with a monographic slant on individual artistic personalities. A celebration by the Genoese capital of one of the periods of greatest splendor in its history, not only economic and financial, but also cultural and artistic.

Both exhibitions are curated by Piero Boccardo, Jonathan Bober and Franco Boggero. The appellation Superba, to which the title Superbarocco refers, is well suited to Genoa, a city that between the late 16th century and the first decades of the 18th century was one of the great economic capitals of Europe. The pomp and luxury, declined with great determination by Genoa’s noble families, can be found in the paintings presented at the Scuderie del Quirinale, with the robes of Rubens and Van Dyck ’s portraits , the furnishings that crowd the canvases of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, the lush Baroque compositions of Domenico Piola and Gregorio De Ferrari, the whimsical landscapes of Magnasco as well as in the recurring use of precious materials such as Carrara marble, fine silver and amethyst.

The exhibition promoted by the Scuderie del Quirinale brings to the attention of the general public a complex of more than one hundred and twenty works of art now preserved in major museums around the world, but also from numerous exclusive private collections that have exceptionally agreed to lend their masterpieces. Associated with the institutional framework of the project as the promoting entity, the City of Genoa has agreed to support the exhibition not only through the loan of an extraordinary selection of works of art belonging to the City and State museums, as well as the Diocesan Museum and that of the Accademia Ligustica, but also through the support of the civic authorities and the Region of Liguria, starting with the first citizen, and by organizing other specific exhibition initiatives in the city organically connected with the exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale.

The Italian edition of the catalog is published by Skira for Scuderie del Quirinale. The catalogs of the exhibitions La forma della meraviglia and I Protagonisti are published by Sagep.

Image: Valerio Castello, Diana and Actaeon with Pan and Syrinx (c. 1650-1655; oil on canvas, 165.1 x 251.5 cm; West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Museum of Art)

At the Scuderie del Quirinale the exhibition Superbarocco. Art in Genoa from Rubens to Magnasco

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