Vercelli - Finestre sull'Arte

Five Varallo churches to visit with masterpieces by Gaudenzio Ferrari

When one thinks of Varallo, the small town in the province of Vercelli, in Valsesia, one unhesitatingly links it to Sacro Monte, but in reality it reveals quite a few surprises to its visitors: in addition to the aforementioned Sacro Monte and the Pi...
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Vercelli dedicates a major retrospective exhibition to sculptor Francesco Messina, 120 years after his birth

On the 120th anniversary of the birth of sculptor Francesco Messina (Linguaglossa, Catania 1900 - Milan 1995), one of the most significant sculptors of the 20th century, Vercelli dedicates a major exhibition to the artist, with no less than 120 works...
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Sodom's only work in his hometown: the Holy Family in Vercelli

The only work by the Vercelli painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (Vercelli, 1477 - Siena, 1549), known as Sodoma, still present in his hometown is a Holy Family with Angel and St. John preserved at the Borgogna Museum, thanks to the purchase of t...
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Three museums of different eras in one: the Leone Museum in Vercelli

Not far from the ARCA museum center and the Angel Tower stands one of Vercelli's museum jewels: the Leone Museum. In fact, the museum brings together three buildings from three different eras, so visiting the venue on Via Giuseppe Verdi is ...
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A castle as big as a village: history of the Consortium Castle of Buronzo

A castle that is as large as an entire village, or a village that is shaped like a castle: this is the impression one gets when one arrives at the Castello Consortile di Buronzo, a rare complex of fortified houses and towers that rises in the heart...
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Vercelli turrita: journey through the ancient towers of the Piedmontese city

As illustrated in theengraving depicting a view of Vercelli as a turreted city, in medieval times the city on the Sesia River was full of towers. A skyline that had nothing to envy San Gimignano. The engraving, published in Augsburg between 1...
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A face impossible to forget. Tanzio da Varallo's David, between Testori and Rimbaud.

Giovanni Testori was right: it is impossible to forget the faces of Tanzio da Varallo's two Davids . Especially of the less ancient one, the very blond teenager that Tanzio painted around 1625, of the two the one with the more ephebic face: "...
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Vercelli, an exhibition to discover the medieval city and all its secrets

In medieval times Vercelli was one of the most prosperous and important cities in Italy in all aspects, from economic and commercial to religious, as well as social and cultural. Indeed, history speaks through the documents that have come d...
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