In the Villa of Masterpieces in Mamiano a major exhibition dedicated to Luigi Magnani

The Magnani-Rocca Foundation will host from Sept. 12 to Dec. 13, 2020, at the Villa dei Capolavori in Mamiano di Traversetolo the exhibition The Last Romantic, paying tribute to its founder Luigi Magnani (Reggio Emilia, 1906 - Mamiano, 1984), among the world’s greatest art collectors.

He gathered masterpieces by great artists in his mansion, turning it into the house of wonders, a true Pantheon of art: he owned unique paintings and furnishings by Titian, Goya, Monet, Renoir, Canova, Morandi and many others.
The exhibition presents more than one hundred works from major museums and prestigious collections to tell the story of the figure of Luigi Magnani through painting, music, literature and the personalities he frequented or with whom he was passionate. Considered a leading intellectual in the 20th century who frequented the most exclusive salons of his time, he was among the founders of Italia Nostra.

The exhibition, curated by Stefano Roffi and Mauro Carrera, displays paintings, portraits, self-portraits, and autograph documents of the many famous artists, critics, musicians, men of letters, filmmakers, aristocrats, and captains of industry whom Magnani frequented, from Bernard Berenson to Margaret, sister of the Queen of England, from Eugenio Montale to Giorgio Morandi. There are also pictorial tributes to her passion for music with works by the greatest Italian artists of the 20th century and antique musical instruments.

On the occasion of the exhibition, works “pursued” by Magnani will arrive at Villa dei Capolavori, such as Giovan Battista Moroni ’s Il cavaliere in rosa, preserved at Palazzo Moroni in Bergamo.

Among the masterpieces on display will be Francisco Goya’s large painting The Family of the Infante Don Luis, three Madonnas with Child by Filippo Lippi, Albrecht Dürer and Domenico Beccafumi, Gentile da Fabriano’s Stigmata di san Francesco, Titian’s Sacred Conversation, Canova’s Tersicore and two female figures by Bartolini.
Also, as many as fifty works by Giorgio Morandi, some works by de Pisis, Gino Severini’s Futurist Danseuse, one of de Chirico’s Metaphysical Piazzas, some works by Guttuso and sculptures by Giacomo Manzù and Leoncillo, as well as Alberto Burri’s Sacco. In addition, the Villa houses the only room of works by Cézanne in Italy, as well as a seascape by Monet and splendid paintings by Renoir, Matisse, de Staël, Fautrier, and Hartung.

The opening of the Villa to the public took place in April 1990: the works of an almost legendary collection belonging to one of the most eclectic cultural figures of the 20th century were thus unveiled. Magnani was a writer, essayist, art historian, composer, music critic, and, with his research and writings on Correggio, Morandi, Mozart, Beethoven, Goethe, Stendhal, and Proust, he knew how to reunite the reasons of feeling and those of the intellect.

For more info: www.magnanirocca.it

Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: 12 euros exhibition and permanent collections.

Image: Giovan Battista Moroni, The Knight in Pink (1560; oil on canvas, 216 x 123 cm; Bergamo, Palazzo Moroni)

In the Villa of Masterpieces in Mamiano a major exhibition dedicated to Luigi Magnani

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