Garofalo

The State Hermitage Museum announces the first exhibition, organized in collaboration with The Hermitage-Italia Foundation – the Italian branch of the State Hermitage Museum, established in Ferrara on 20 October, 2007, as an important Italian-Russian Research centre: “Garofalo – the painter at Ferrara of D’Este”. The exhibition is dedicated to Benvenuto Tisi, called Garofalo, one of the leading artists in the 16th-century figurative art of Ferrara.

The State Hermitage Museum has an important collection of Garofalo’s paintings. The first monographic exhibition on the Ferrara artist, staged in the splendid rooms of the D’Este Castle from the 5th April to the 6th July, 2008, is curated by Dr. Tatiana Kustodieva, The State Hermitage Museum, and Prof.Mauro Lucco, Italy, in collaboration with Dr.Michele Danieli, Italy.

This exhibition is contributed by Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, President of the Scientific Committee of the Hermitage-Italia Foundation, and Dr.Irina Artemieva, curator of The State Hermitage Museum the Scientific Director of the Hermitage-Italia, and her Italian colleague Prof.Francesca Cappelletti.

The goal of the exhibition is to reconstruct the career of this artist, who brought all the trends of modern art to Ferrara and to his own works. At the same time, however, through the works of artists such as Domenico Panetti, Boccaccio Boccaccino, Dosso Dossi and Francesco Francia the exhibition also evokes the city’s exceptionally vibrant artistic climate at the beginning of the 16th century.

Full sory

Ìikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum delivers a speech at the exhibition opening

Svetlana Medvedeva, wife of the President Elect of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, and Ìikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, at the opening of the exhibition

D’Este Castle, Ferrara

At the press-conference