The Madonna in Blue, a 14th-century Veronese sculpture, is on display in Trent.

The Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento is hosting, from June 22 to October 26, 2018, the exhibition La Madonna in Blue. A Fourteenth-Century Veronese Sculpture, which presents to the public the recent restorations of the work that gives the exhibition its title: in particular, restorers have managed to restore the sculpture to its original colors, revealing the original drafting of azurite (hence the work’s name) and gold decorations. Also known as Madonna of the Rose, the Madonna in Blue is depicted in a frontal pose, seated on a throne and crowned: it is characterized by the nobility of the face that seems to hint at a smile, in line with the style of Veronese sculpture of the time. The author remains unknown to this day.

Buonconsiglio Castle director Laura Dal Prà anticipates that the exhibition “will inaugurate a new cultural proposal of the Buonconsiglio, the ’Cameos’ project, through which individual works that are part of the museum’s heritage, hitherto neglected by studies, will be offered to the public’s attention. ’Cameos’ will also be entitled the series of publications that will deepen knowledge about each of the works thus investigated.”

The exhibition is curated by Lucia Giacomelli: “In this first ’Cameo,’” she said, “the Madonna in Blue will be presented by highlighting both its historical context, which links it to the suppressed convent of the Augustinian fathers of San Marco in Trent, and its iconographic context: the highly refined theme is that of the Madonna of the Rose. Not neglecting, of course, the stylistic aspect that leads it back to what was one of the greatest seasons of Veronese art, that of fourteenth-century sculpture definitively consecrated to the highest levels by Pietro Toesca, who still in 1951 wrote ”These figures have no comparison either among the Campionese or the Venetian. Moreover, the work is one of the very few remaining examples of 14th-century Veronese stone sculpture in Trent.

The Madonna in Blue, a 14th-century Veronese sculpture, is on display in Trent.

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