The exhibition is curated by Mario Scalini and Elena Rossoni.
Heirs of medieval chivalrous culture, games and tournaments became very popular in the Italian Renaissance courts, including the city of Bologna which, although not the seat of principality, was the second city of the Church State. Of that wonderful world, often phantasmagoric in the Baroque era, there are still many documents and written testimonies but few visuals that can make us touch that universe made of ephemeral apparatuses, costumes, sets, music, special effects and to which they participated, to beloved guests, the main Knights of the noble families of the city.
The National Art Gallery of Bologna is fortunate to preserve a collection of 114 drawings for feathered crests and bardes from horseback related to those occurrences, a varied and colorful repertoire related to the games-performances that took place in the city. Among these stand out the rides of February and March 1628, whose memory was assigned to the publication of two volumes, the Burned Mountain and the Love prisoner in Delos, the latter illustrated with engravings by Giovanni Battista Coriolano.
In support of this repertoire of drawings and prints, two helmets and a bust of the National Museum of Ravenna are on display, as well as two large canvases from the Baraccano Conservatory depicting the Barrier Joust and the open field horse-race referred to the painter, pupate of the Carracci, Francesco Brizio.
Admission with ticket of the National Art Gallery of Bologna.
TICKET COST: full € 6, reduced € 3 for young people aged between 18 and 25; free for all citizens under the age of 18, for holders of the Musei Metropolitani Card in Bologna and every first Sunday of the month.
The side events of the exhibition:
Thursday 14 February 2019, 5.00 pm – National Gallery, Aula Gnudi
The knightly game in seventeenth-century Bologna
conference curated by Mario Scalini and Elena Rossoni
admission with a reduced ticket of the National Art Gallery in Bologna
Friday 22 February 2019, 5.30 pm – National Art Gallery
The knightly game in seventeenth-century Bologna
guided tour by Francesca Passerini
Admission with ticket of the National Art Gallery of Bologna.
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