Major monograph on Domenico Piola arrives in Genoa, involving the whole city

Opens Friday, Oct. 13, and runs through Jan. 7, 2018, the major monographic exhibition Genoa is dedicating to one of its most illustrious painters, Domenico Piola (Genoa, 1628 - 1703), the most celebrated artist of Baroque Genoa. The exhibition, entitled Domenico Piola 1628-1703. Paths of Baroque Painting, is held at Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino and at the Strada Nuova Museums and is curated by Daniele Sanguineti, author of a rich monograph on the artist published in two volumes in 2004: the present monograph, the first one dedicated to the Genoese artist, will therefore allow to take stock of Domenico Piola with a selection of about fifty paintings at Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino from which “the reference culture, the most typical language, the typologies (altarpieces, paintings with sacred subjects, profane allegories) throughout the entire production iter can emerge.” On display in the palace on Via Garibaldi therefore are the youthful works, those documenting his relationship with sculptors and in particular with Pierre Puget, collaborations with the still-life painter Stefano Camogli, religious paintings, altarpieces and room paintings, works influenced by Grechetto painting, and paintings of the final phase, including those made for the refined patronage of Nicolò Maria Pallavicini.

The exhibition then continues in the rooms of the Strada Nuova Museums, where at Palazzo Bianco works from the deposits will be on display and at Palazzo Rosso the rooms with the Seasons frescoed by Piola and drawings from the Drawings and Prints Cabinet will be admired (there will also be plans for the frescoes on display), but not only that: in fact, visitors are invited to take a true journey through Piola’s production in Genoa, which can also be found at the Museo di Palazzo Reale, the Villa del Principe, the Museo Diocesano, the Museo di Sant’Agostino, the Museo dell’Accademia Ligustica, and Palazzo San Giorgio, for a sort of “diffuse exhibition” that “gives an objective account of the profile of such a multifaceted artist.” It is an extraordinary journey intended to give an idea of the success to which his art reached and also how influential he was. “Piola, supported by a modern and spectacular language, updated on the major innovations that came from propelling centers such as Bologna and Rome,” the presentation reads, “would operate in such a way as to become director in Genoa of the major fresco sites, dispensing graphic designs to sculptors, engravers, carvers, marble workers, silversmiths, and weavers, and training a series of pupils (beginning with his sons Anton Maria and Paolo Gerolamo) capable of reiterating, well beyond his own death, his luxurious stylistic signature that was always appreciated by patrons locally and beyond.”

The exhibition opens Friday, Oct. 13 from 3 to 6 p.m., thereafter it will observe the following hours (at Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino): Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m., Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays and Dec. 25, open Jan. 1 from 3 to 6 p.m. Tickets: full price 10 euros, reduced 8 euros (FAI, COOP, TCI, Giano Club members and groups: groups can also enter outside opening hours, with prior reservation), reduced 5.50 euros for students, university students and teachers, free for children under 11 and carers of the disabled. Reduced admission 8 euros also for owners of the other palaces/museums satellite venues of the exhibition. Guided tours with the curator can be arranged upon request. For info: http://www.palazzolomellino.org/ or see the City’s website, Genova more than this. Hashtag: #piolamania.

Pictured: frescoes by Domenico Piola in the Autumn Room at Palazzo Rosso.

Major monograph on Domenico Piola arrives in Genoa, involving the whole city

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