The exhibition entitled “Gaudenzio Ferrari’s Renaissance”, hosted in Vercelli (L’Arca), Novara (Broletto) and Varallo (Palazzo dei Musei) (until July 1st in Novara and Varallo and until September 16th 2018 in Varallo), curated by Giovanni Agosti and Jacopo Stoppa, aims at reasserting the importance of the painter born in Valsesia around 1475 and died in Milan in 1456.
In his “Idea of the Temple of Painting” – one of the milestones of art criticism – Gian Paolo Lomazzo includes him among the seven “Governors” with Mantegna, Michelangelo, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Leonardo, Raphael and Titian. In 1956, the exhibition held at the Museo Borgogna in Vercelli, curated by Giovanni Testori, Roberto Longhi’s talented and literary student, showed the value of the Piedmontese artist. Testori’s collection of essays on Gaudenzio in the volume Il grande teatro montano, published by Felitrinelli in 1964, further highlighted the crucial role played by the artist in the development of the Renaissance that originated on the banks of the Po.
Fifty years later and after Giovanni Romano’s analytical study, the wide ‘polyphonic’ exhibition marks the highlights of the artist’s career. The exhibition also offers the chance to tackle the problems around the attribution of the works, besides providing new information regarding Gaudenzio Ferrari’s work technique. Thanks to his passionate lyricism, the painter was able to merge colours and passions.
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