Genovesino - Finestre sull'Arte

Love, death and flowers. The brevity of life according to Genovesino

Luigi Lanzi wrote, in his Storia pittorica d'Italia (Pictorial History of Italy), that Genovesino succeeded in all themes, but especially in the "most horrific" ones. It is difficult to blame the abbot when one admires certain vanitas by the Liguri...
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For Genovesino, a fine research exhibition in Piacenza on his relations with the city

The Genovesino and Piacenza exhibition that recently opened in the rooms of Palazzo Galli, a valuable exhibition venue of the Banca di Piacenza, is more than just an appendix born on the heels of the success of the successful monographic exhibiti...
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Genovesino exhibition in Cremona extended until Feb. 4

Given its success with the public, the monographic exhibition Genovesino. Nature and Invention in Seventeenth-Century Painting in Cremona, curated by Francesco Frangi, Valerio Guazzoni and Marco Tanzi and running at Cremona 's Museo Civico "Ala P...
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Review of the Genovesino exhibition in Cremona

In the autumn of 1647, the quiet existence of the city of Cremona, which had experienced nearly two decades of relative calm after the great Manzoni plague, found itself disturbed by the events of the Franco-Spanish war. Cremona, the most important p...
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In Cremona the first monographic exhibition for the Genovesino

He is a little-known author, but he held a notable importance in seventeenth-century painting: he is Luigi Miradori, better known as the Genovesino (Genoa, c. 1605 - Cremona, 1656), Genoese by birth but Cremonese by adoption: it was in Cremona that h...
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