TURIN - In the year of the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death, a small exhibition linked to some significant episodes of the Savoy court, at the start in Turin, tells the importance of this Renaissance protagonist and his influence on the artists of his time or later throughout Europe.
The exhibition, which can be visited at the Galleria Sabauda until 14 March next year, was illustrated to the press today remotely.
Supported by the National Committee for the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Mibact, it was created in partnership with Intesa Sanpaolo and in collaboration with the La Venaria Reale Restoration Center.
It presents 33 works, works that derive directly from the master's models in the form of copies or reinterpretations.
On display, among other works, also some ancient copies of the Madonna d'Orléans, a youthful work by Raphael perhaps belonging to Duke Charles II of Savoy, now kept at the Condé Museum in Chantilly and replicated already in the first half of the sixteenth century by some of the main artists active in the Piedmont area.
The original, a letter testifies, was in Turin, but probably following a theft reported by Christina of France, its traces were lost until the 18th century, when it reappeared in the collections of the regent of France Filippo d'Orleans.