In Turin, the Sale Chiablese will host a major exhibition on Guercino, with a focus on the painter's craft in the 1600s

From March 23 to July 28, 2024, the Sale Chiablese of the Royal Museums of Turin will host the exhibition Guercino. The Painter’s Craft, curated by Annamaria Bava (Royal Museums of Turin) and Gelsomina Spione (University of Turin-Department of Historical Studies).

Starting with the significant nucleus of paintings and drawings belonging to the collections of the Galleria Sabauda and the Royal Library, over one hundred works by Guercino and coeval artists such as the Carraccis, Guido Reni and Domenichino, from more than thirty major museums and collections, including the Prado Museum in Madrid and the Monastery of the Escorial, will bring to life a grand fresco of the art of the time, guided by the talent of the “monster of nature and miracle to amaze” who was Guercino, as Ludovico Carracci called him.

Tracing Guercino’s activity and art from his training to full maturity, thanks to masterpieces that will arrive on the occasion of the exhibition, some reunited for the first time, the exhibition also aims to give an account of the painter’s craft in the seventeenth century: the challenges of the profession, production systems, the organization of the workshops, the dynamics of the market and commissions, and the subjects and themes most in demand.

For info: https://museireali.beniculturali.it/

Image: Guercino, The Return of the Prodigal Son (1617; oil on canvas; Turin, Musei Reali)

In Turin, the Sale Chiablese will host a major exhibition on Guercino, with a focus on the painter's craft in the 1600s

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