Diego Velázquez and Giacomo Ceruti compared in an exhibition in Brescia

The Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia is organizing an exhibition comparing Diego Velázquez and Giacomo Ceruti scheduled from November 26, 2021 to February 27, 2022.

That between Velázquez and Ceruti is a closeness of intent that finds form, a century apart, under the aegis of reality in a dialogue made up of themes, composition, inspiration, and light. On display is the exceptional loan, never before exhibited in Italy, of The Lunch by Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) from theHermitage in an important comparison with works by Giacomo Ceruti known as il Pitocchetto (1698-1767).

A comparison underscored by the rearrangement of the Ceruti Room (XII) of Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, the museum that owns the world’s most important body of works by the Milanese-born and Brescian-adopted author. In fact, Velázquez’s Luncheon (ca. 1617, pictured) is displayed alongside some masterpieces of Ceruti’s pauperistic production, whose artistic and cultural premise is to be recognized in seventeenth-century European naturalism, which precisely in Velázquez had one of its greatest protagonists.

The curatorship of the project, titled Velázquez for Ceruti, is entrusted to Guillaume Kientz, director of New York’s Hispanic Society Museum & Library, formerly in charge of the collections of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American art and sculpture at the Louvre Museum in Paris, and curator, in 2015, of the major retrospective on Diego Velázquez at the Grand Palais in Paris.

A project sponsored by the City of Brescia, Fondazione Brescia Musei, Alleanza Cultura and State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg, co-produced with Villaggio Globale International in collaboration with Hermitage Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute of St. Petersburg and the Consulate General of Italy in St. Petersburg.

For all information, you can visit the official website of Brescia Musei.

Diego Velázquez and Giacomo Ceruti compared in an exhibition in Brescia

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