GUERCINO. IL MESTIERE DEL PITTORE

From 23 March, the Sale Chiablese host an exhibition dedicated to the painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, a protagonist of the Italian art scene in the first half of the 17th century.

Pivot of the exhibition is the nucleus of works belonging to the collections of the Galleria Sabauda and the Royal Library, juxtaposed with paintings, drawings and engravings on loan from Italian and international museums and collections.

In particular, the exhibition develops the theme of the craft of the painter, in its relations with patrons, the the market and the public, placing the artist’s creative and stylistic path creative and stylistic path of the artist in the broader and intertwined framework of the economic and social dynamics of his time.