Bellini. Titian. Bassano
Masters of the Italian Renaissance on Wawel Castle
In the same year when the renowned exhibition Giovanni Bellini: Influences croisées ended in Paris, the Wawel Royal Castle announces that a significant work by the Renaissance master Madonna and Child will be on permanent exhibition in the Wawel collection.
In the same year when the renowned exhibition Giovanni Bellini: Influences croisées ended in Paris, the Wawel Royal Castle announces that a significant work by the Renaissance master Madonna and Child will be on permanent exhibition in the Wawel collection. It is one of the most outstanding Italian paintings of the early Renaissance period to be found in Poland. Visitors will see it for the first time during a unique show Masters of the Italian Renaissance. For this occasion, paintings by Jacopo Bassan and Ross Fiorentino were brought to Krakow. The show will be complemented by Titian and his Allegory of Love combined with the work of Padovanino from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
– All the works presented in our museum demonstrate the greatness of the royal residence, referring to its historical splendour. I am glad that we managed to prepare an extraordinary show where we present large-scale painting works by important and unique Renaissance masters. We present for the first time "Madonna and Child" by Giovanni Bellini, one of the most outstanding painters of this period, but we also compare two "Allegories of Love" by Titian and Padovanino (ours and from the collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna), which further increases the prestige of the Wawel collections. Moreover, these works are a perfect complement to one of the most valuable collections of Italian paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries in Poland, which can be admired here – says Prof. Andrzej Betlej, director of the Wawel Royal Castle.
The curator of the Masters of the Italian Renaissance show is Joanna Winiewicz-Wolska, PhD – head of the Painting Department of the Wawel Royal Castle. The art historian and researcher points out that Giovanni Bellini introduced light and colour, poetic, atmospheric landscape and realistically painted figures to Venetian painting. Great painters such as Giorgione and Titian drew abundantly from his achievements.
In the same year when the renowned exhibition Giovanni Bellini: Influences croisées ended in Paris, the Wawel Royal Castle announces that a significant work by the Renaissance master Madonna and Child will be on permanent exhibition in the Wawel collection. It is one of the most outstanding Italian paintings of the early Renaissance period to be found in Poland. Visitors will see it for the first time during a unique show Masters of the Italian Renaissance. For this occasion, paintings by Jacopo Bassan and Ross Fiorentino were brought to Krakow. The show will be complemented by Titian and his Allegory of Love combined with the work of Padovanino from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
– All the works presented in our museum demonstrate the greatness of the royal residence, referring to its historical splendour. I am glad that we managed to prepare an extraordinary show where we present large-scale painting works by important and unique Renaissance masters. We present for the first time "Madonna and Child" by Giovanni Bellini, one of the most outstanding painters of this period, but we also compare two "Allegories of Love" by Titian and Padovanino (ours and from the collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna), which further increases the prestige of the Wawel collections. Moreover, these works are a perfect complement to one of the most valuable collections of Italian paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries in Poland, which can be admired here – says Prof. Andrzej Betlej, director of the Wawel Royal Castle.
The curator of the Masters of the Italian Renaissance show is Joanna Winiewicz-Wolska, PhD – head of the Painting Department of the Wawel Royal Castle. The art historian and researcher points out that Giovanni Bellini introduced light and colour, poetic, atmospheric landscape and realistically painted figures to Venetian painting. Great painters such as Giorgione and Titian drew abundantly from his achievements.