After 500 years the marvelous works of the artists Bembo was a friend of and with whom he surrounded himself in his house in Padua, in via Altinate, will be brought together for the first time, giving life to the first "museum" of the Renaissance.
The exhibition begins in late fifteenth-century Venice, with works by Bellini, Giorgione and Aldo Manutius. Then Ferrara, where Bembo loved Lucrezia Borgia, Mantua, with Isabella D'Este and where Bembo discovered the Mantegna, then Urbino of the young man Raphael, Perugino, Gian Cristoforo Romano.
Then in the Roma of the Popes, dominated by the mature Raffaello, with Valerio Belli e Julius Roman. He arrives in Padua, the city where Bembo chose to live by keeping his treasures in the house on the street Altinate, the first museum of the Renaissance.
The journey ends in the Rome of Paolo III Farnese, with Bembo portrayed by Titian as a cardinal, alongside stupendous works by Michelangelo e Sebastian del Piombo, while the links with the Veneto are evoked through the works of sansovino, Giulio Clovio, Bartholomew Ammnate yourself, Danish Cataneus.
Exhibited works by Mantegna, Michelangelo, Hans Memling, Giorgione, Titian, Raphael, Bellini, Giulio Romano, more Perugino, Francis France, Lorenzo Costa, Sebastian of Lead, coming from the most important European and national museums United States. And also very refined sculptures, a majestic tapestry from the Sistine Chapel, unique musical instruments, some of the most precious printed books in the world, engraved gems, Roman marble and bronze sculptures such as the Farnese Antinous or the Idolino of Pesaro, masterpieces from ancient Egypt such as the arcana Isiac table
At the end of the journey it will seem to have witnessed, next to Bembo, the birth of the Renaissance. An art that is still celebrated around the world today and also a certain idea of Italy, which now more than ever we must know and defend.
Until the 19 May 2013 at Palazzo del Monte di Pietà it will be possible to admire, for the first time in Padua after 500 years, the art collection of the scholar, patron, creator of the Italian language and Renaissance, Pietro Bembo.
