Masterpieces of the Baroque Renaissance in the Marche region on display in Senigallia

The exhibition "Perugino, Crivelli, Giaquinto. From the Blue Mountains to the Adriatic," which is being held at Palazzo del Duca in Senigallia. From the Renaissance to the Baroque, four centuries of art in the Marche region told through the works of the great artists who were born or stayed here and contributed to changing the geography of Art History.

The exhibition, curated by Stefano Papetti, welcomes the masterpieces of some of the great masters who over the centuries contributed to enriching the Adriatic centers with their works. Through a rich selection of works from the Fortunato Duranti Civic Art Gallery of Montefortino and other institutions linked to the Sibillini Museum Network, such as the Gentili Art Gallery of San Ginesio and the Civic Art Gallery of Sarnano, places moreover scarred by the recent seismic events, it will illustrate that complex process of figurative osmosis, which goes from the center to the Marche coast, and which Federico Zeri and Pietro Zampetti have defined as Adriatic culture. As Stefano Papetti states, "this is an astonishing series of masterpieces that dialogue with the artistic heritage preserved in Senigallia, such as the small panel by Perugino, also the author of the monumental altarpiece in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, which attests to the great diffusion of the Peruginesque verb in the vast central Italian territory, but also the panels by Vittore Crivelli that testify to the fortune of the scrupulous style elaborated in the flourishing lagoon workshops in continuous dialogue with the Adriatic context."

It is a journey into the popular religiosity of the Marche region through a stylistic and iconographic itinerary that unravels from the halls of the Palazzo del Duca with its large 15th-century altarpieces to the more intimate rooms of the piano nobile where the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century still lifes, some of which were purchased at the Senigallia Fair, are on display, collected by Fortunato Duranti, a Marche artist who was a precursor, at the height of the Romantic period, of the rediscovery of Baroque art.

The exhibition itinerary, which follows a chronological order, begins with the panel St. Andrew and the Battle between Ginesini and Fermani (c. 1463) by Nicola di Ulisse da Siena known as the “Battle of the Fornarina” after the name of the baker who gave the alarm of the’arrival of the enemies and saved the village of San Ginesio from destruction, and continues with Vittore Crivelli ’s sublime Madonna in Prayer with Child and Musician Angels, testifying to the fortunate crossroads of artists that linked Venice and the Marche region since the 14th century.
Providing a counterpoint to Perugino’s Pala di Senigallia, depicting the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Saints John the Baptist, Ludovico di Tolosa, Francis, Peter, Paul and James, now housed in the Pinacoteca Diocesana in the Adriatic city, is Perugino’s own dramatic Christ of the Passion, which attests to the widespread diffusion of his stylistic marker in the vast territory of central Italy. Passing through Vincenzo Pagani, Antonio di Benedetto degli Aquili known as Antoniazzo Romano, Simone De Magistris and Machisiano di Giorgio, we arrive at the 18th century with a series of paintings by Corrado Giaquinto, the Apulian artist who worked in the major Italian and European capitals, moving from Molfetta and then landing in Rome, Turin and Madrid, where he won unconditional praise for the gracefulness of his compositions. His is the oil on canvas La Maga, which testifies to the stories and legends that populate the area of the Sibillini Mountains.

Also on display are still lifes by established Italian specialists in the genre, works of great success for their decorative value, which in the exhibition is evidenced by the canvases of two painters such as Spadino and Cristoforo Munari. Opening hours: Wednesday to Friday from 3 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Sunday, holidays and pre-holidays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 7 p.m. For information and reservations you can call 3666797942, visit www.comune.senigallia.an.it or email circuitomuseale@comune.senigallia.an.it.

Masterpieces of the Baroque Renaissance in the Marche region on display in Senigallia

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