Reopening with special guest at Palazzo Cini: Paolo Uccello's St. George and the Dragon

Palazzo Cini in Venice reopened to the public on May 28 with a special guest: Paolo Uccello’s Saint George and the Dragon.

The work, on loan from the Musée Jacquemart - André in Paris, will in fact remain in the Venetian museum venue for a few months as part of the L’ospite a Palazzo initiative, an occasion that in past years had already allowed important masterpieces from major Italian and international museums to be exhibited in the gallery’s exhibition spaces in order to make them dialogue with works from the permanent collection.

The St. George and the Dragon was granted by the French institution on the occasion of the loan of Botticelli and workshop’s The Judgement of Paris, which will leave the Palazzo Cini Gallery in September for the Paris exhibition Botticelli: a laboratoire de la Renaissance, to be held from September 10, 2021 to January 24, 2022.

The permanent collection, the fruit of the ancient art collection of 20th-century entrepreneur and philanthropist Vittorio Cini, brings together masterpieces spanning from the 13th to the 18th century: these include a series of paintings from the Florentine Renaissance, including works by Beato Angelico and Piero di Cosimo, and the collection of Ferrarese paintings with works by Dosso Dossi, Cosmè Tura, Ercole de’ Roberti and other artists from the Ferrarese workshop such as Marco Zoppo, Baldassarre d’Este, Ludovico Mazzolino, and Lorenzo Costa.

Also on view at Palazzo Cini is the exhibition Piranesi Roma Basilico, opening in 2020, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, director of the Cini Foundation’s Institute of Art History, with the collaboration of the Gabriele Basilico Archive.

Reopening with special guest at Palazzo Cini: Paolo Uccello's St. George and the Dragon

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