Dürer e il Rinascimento. Tra Germania e Italia

A major exhibition and an original project that recounts the zenith of the German Renaissance at its moment of maximum splendor and great openness to Europe, thanks to the work of Albrecht Dürer and some of the great German and Italian artists who were his contemporaries.

The exhibition, curated by Professor Bernard Aikema, offers visitors a chance to view some 130 works including paintings, engravings, books and manuscripts by Germany’s greatest Renaissance artist, revealing the innovative nature of his art technically, semantically and iconographically. The Nuremberg master’s corpus is flanked by a number of significant works by his German contemporaries such as Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Burgkmair, and Martin Schongauer on the one hand; and on the other by great Italian painters, draftsmen, and graphic artists who worked between Milan and Venice, such as Titian, Giorgione, Andrea Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni Bellini, and Andrea Solario. Bringing together works from more than 40 Italian and international lenders, the exhibition will allow for a true virtual “European” journey to the most prestigious European and Italian museums, thus providing an in-depth insight into that golden age of art history that is still considered an unrepeatable epigone. The exhibition will also reveal the framework of artistic relations between northern and southern Europe in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the religious and spiritual debate as the cultural substrate of Dürer’s works as well as his vision of nature and art between classicism and anti-classicism, his figure as a man and his ambitions as an artist.