Jacopo Zanguids, called the Bertoja (1544-1573) and Jerome Mirola (1530/35-1570), are the protagonists of the exhibition THE EMILIAN MANNER Bertoja, Mirola, from Parma to the Courts of Europe at the Labirinto della Masone, which will remain open until 28 July 2019.
Artists who contributed, together with Correggio and Parmigianino, their predecessors, to make the Sixteenth century Parma one of the most significant chapters of Italian art.
The exhibition entitled The Emilian Manner. Bertoja, Mirola, from Parma to the Courts of Europe, sees about seventy exhibited works by the two artists.
These are paintings, drawings and studies for the great frescoes, from the most important collections in the world: from the Louvre, the British Museum, the Cabinet of Drawings of the Uffizi, the Albertina in Vienna, In addition, famous works from the National Gallery of Parma.
The exhibition at the Masone Labyrinth intends to be a reinterpretation of the extraordinary pictorial civilization that followed the Renaissance and which brought about a revolution in terms of iconography, rules and pictorial customs in Emilia, Lazio, Italy and in the courts of Europe. The two artists were in fact in the retinue of the Farnese: in Parma in the service of Ottavio, for whom they frescoed the Palazzo del Giardino (ducal) which fascinated Vasari. Bertoja then was engaged by the Grand Cardinal Alessandro Farnese for the drafting of the famous frescoes in Rome and Caprarola.
The numerous drawings exhibited in the rooms offer a true sample of anatomical studies, sacred and profane figures and landscapes: a sophisticated universe, heir to the best Renaissance.
The exhibition is curated by Maria Cristina Chiusa and is accompanied by a precious volume edited by Franco Maria Ricci, with full-page images of the works accompanying the contributions of the members of the scientific committee directed by Pierre Rosenberg (Président d'honneur of the Musée du Louvre) and composed of an extraordinary scientific committee:
– Pierre Rosenberg
(Director, Président d'honneur du Musée du Louvre, Academician of France)
– Maria Christina Closed
(Curator of the exhibition)
Dominique Cordellier
(Louvre Museum, Paris)
– Hugo Chapman
(The British Museum)
– David Ekserdjian
(University of Leicester)
– Marzia Faietti
(Director of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Uffizi, Florence) – Maria Grazia Bernardini
(former Director of the National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo)
Sonia Cavicchioli
(University of Bologna)
– Achim Gnann
(Albertina, Vienna)
– Giovanna Paolozzi Strozzi
(Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza)
Claudio Strinati
(former Superintendent of the Roman Museum Complex)
– Arturo Carlo Quintavalle
(Academician of San Luca)
Mariella Utili
(Regional secretary of cultural assets and tourism activities in Campania)
Labyrinth of the Masone
Masone Road 121
43012 Fontanellato (PR)
