Cavallini Sgarbi collection on display in Ferrara

The exhibition “The Cavallini Sgarbi Collection. From Niccolò dell’Arca to Gaetano Previati. Art Treasures for Ferrara” will open Feb. 3 at the Castello Estense in Ferrara and will remain open until June 3.

It is an exhibition of 130 works, including paintings and sculptures, from the early 15th century to the mid-20th century, collected over some 40 years of passionate collecting by Vittorio Sgarbi with his mother Caterina “Rina” Cavallini and is conceived and promoted by the Fondazione Elisabetta Sgarbi (an organization that has been committed for years to the enhancement and promotion of culture and art) in collaboration with the Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, the Municipality of Ferrara and under the patronage of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism and the Emilia-Romagna Region.

The first work that will welcome visitors will be the terracotta San Domenico modeled in 1474 by Niccolò dell’Arca and originally placed above the door “della vestiaria” in the convent of the church of San Domenico in Bologna, where between 1469 and 1473 theartist waited at theArk of the saint from which he derives his pseudonym; then will follow paintings from the early 17th century belonging to Sebastiano Filippi known as Bastianino, Gaspare Venturini, Ippolito Scarsella known as lo Scarsellino, Camillo Ricci, Giuseppe Caletti and Carlo Bononi; then masterpieces of seventeenth-century Italian painting will be on view, including Artemisia Gentileschi’s Cleopatra, Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli’s Magdalene Assisted by Angels known as Morazzone, Jusepe Ribera’s Saint Jerome, Guido Cagnacci ’s Human Life and Giovanni Francesco Barbieri’s Portrait of Francesco Righetti known as Guercino; finally, there will be the section devoted to 19th- and 20th-century Italian artists such as Gaetano Previati, Giovanni Boldini, Filippo de Pisis, Giuseppe Mentessi, Adolfo Magrini, Giovanni Battista Crema, Ugo Martelli, Augusto Tagliaferri, Carlo Parmeggiani, Arrigo Minerbi and Ulderico Fabbri.

Cavallini Sgarbi collection on display in Ferrara

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