Griffoni Polyptych exhibition extended to Feb. 15, 2021. Roversi-Monaco: We want a concrete signal.

Extended to Feb. 15, 2021, the exhibition The Rediscovery of a Masterpiece that reunited the Griffoni Polyptych at Palazzo Fava in Bologna after three hundred years since its dismemberment.

The exhibition was supposed to close on January 10, 2021, but Genus Bononiae. Museums in the City has announced that the sixteen panels will still remain in the city’s exhibition venue, as the nine international museums that own the panels of the Polittico Griffoni by Francesco del Cossa and Ercole de’ Roberti have granted a further extension.

“What might seem to be a paradox, the extension of a closed exhibition,” stressed Fabio Roversi-Monaco, president of Genus Bononiae, “becomes a gesture of unconditional trust on the part of the lending museums in a project that has made it possible to turn the spotlight back on the centrality of the city of Bologna in the panorama of Renaissance art. It also signifies, on the part of the museum,” Roversi-Monaco continues, “a message of dogged determination to bring back to the center of political discussion the fundamental role of culture, of which museum spaces are the custodians and interpreters. It is well established by now that museums can be enjoyed safely, but reopenings remain tied to more general and territorial indices of contagion. To the last we want to try to give the public the opportunity to enjoy this extraordinary work, visiting an exhibition that has unanimously been called unrepeatable. It is in this sense that I make an appeal to the institutions, local and national, to whom I ask for a special concession, as special and unrepeatable is this operation: thirty days of opening, in total security, with quota numbers and visits by appointment.”

Pictured: detail of Saint Lucy by Francesco del Cossa (c. 1472; tempera on panel, 79 x 56 cm; Washington, National Gallery), one of the panels of the Griffoni Polyptych.

Griffoni Polyptych exhibition extended to Feb. 15, 2021. Roversi-Monaco: We want a concrete signal.

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