Rediscovered Masterpieces from the Vittorio Cini Collection

From 8th April to 15th November 2016, Palazzo Cini presents Rediscovered Masterpieces from the Vittorio Cini Collection, an exhibition conceived as a temporary extension of the permanent collections installed in the house museum created in 1984 following the donation by Cini’s daughter, Yana Cini Alliata di Montereale, of a highly representative selection of Tuscan and Ferrarese works. The exhibition thus now provides the extraordinary opportunity to explore and present one of the most significant but lesser known sections of the Cini collection. Visitors will be able to admire the group of Veneto paintings, some exceptionally on show to the public for the first time, which give an idea of the qualitative standards of one of the most important art collections in 20th-century Italy, and the tastes, thinking and preferences that informed its development. Although starting from a predilection shaped by Berenson, in keeping with the principles and trends of the time for the art of the Italian Primitives and the early Renaissance (from Guglielmo Veneziano to Carlo Crivelli, Jacopo Bellini and Bartolomeo Montagna), the exhibition highlights how Vittorio Cini also took an interest in later centuries, from the 16th century of Titian and Lorenzo Lotto to the 18th century of Giambattista Tiepolo, Canaletto and the Guardi.

Contact:
palazzocini@cini.it

Images:
Carlo Crivelli, "Madonna con Bambino"
Bernardino Licinio, "Ritratto virile"
Bartolomeo Montagna, "Madonna col Bambino e i santi Francesco e Giovanni Battista"
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