In Lecco, the life of St. Nicholas as told by Beato Angelico: works from the Pinacoteca Vaticana and the Braidense

Opere Sante. The Life of Saint Nicholas Recounted by Beato Angelico is the title of the fourth edition of Capolavoro per Lecco: this year the Palazzo delle Paure in Lecco will host three masterpieces from December 3, 2022 to March 4, 2023: the two compartments of the predella of the Guidalotti Polyptych from the Pinacoteca Vaticana, and the Messale Gerli 54 from the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan. The latter is a manuscript from the pages of which Beato Angelico’s work as a refined illuminator emerges, and at the same constitutes an important document of 20th-century Lombard collecting.

The protagonists of the exhibition, curated by Gerardo de Simone, are therefore Saint Nicholas, Patron of Lecco, and Beato Angelico, who depicted the bishop in many of his works. The initiative is promoted by the Cultural Association and the Madonna del Rosario Pastoral Community in collaboration with the Municipality of Lecco.

Also this year, the dissemination of the contents of the works is entrusted to the guided tour by students from local high schools, prepared through a special training course. Nearly two hundred students are involved, from eight schools in Lecco and province, who will be joined by a group of university students mostly from the Milan Polytechnic, Lecco Territorial Pole.

For more info: www.capolavoroperlecco.it

Hours: Tuesday from 2 to 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: 2 euros.

All tours are guided and last about 45 minutes.

In Lecco, the life of St. Nicholas as told by Beato Angelico: works from the Pinacoteca Vaticana and the Braidense

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