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THE ART COLLECTION OF PALAZZO BORROMEO: A HERITAGE SHARED WITH THE WORLD

Works of art travel around the world serving communities, to educate, share knowledge, stimulate reflection and offer gratifying experiences. That is the vision of the museum concept of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). At the centre, the principle of the circulation of artists’ timeless masterpieces.
In line with this principle, over the years the treasures of the Borromeo family’s cultural heritage have also travelled around Italy, to Europe and all over the world.

From the rooms of the Palazzo on Isola Bella, many that are the highest expression of Baroque have reached other places of culture on the occasion of exhibitions and following collaborations with some of the most prestigious institutions and museum structures

And they continue to do so: a few days after the official inauguration of Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023, the painting by Peeter Snijers “Portrait of a Man in Pilgrim’s Costume” is moving from Palazzo Borromeo to the Museum of Santa Giulia in Brescia for the exhibition “Poverty and Nobility. Giacomo Ceruti in the Europe of the 18th Century” that begins on 14 February.

PALAZZO BORROMEO ART COLLECTION: A SHARED WORLD HERITAGE.

Around two years ago, the painting “Santa Caterina”, attributed to the female painter Fede Galizia as a copy of a work by Parmigianino, conserved in the Galleria Berthier, was loaned to the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento for a monographic exhibition entitled “Fede Galizia Amazon of Painting”.

PALAZZO BORROMEO ART COLLECTION: A SHARED WORLD HERITAGE.

Remaining in Piedmont, in 2018 three panels were temporarily transferred from Palazzo Borromeo to the Museo Arca in Vercelli for the exhibition “The Renaissance of Gaudenzio Ferrari”. The exhibition also involved the cities of Novara and Varello Sesia, extending outside museum sites into churches and buildings of the territory with frescos by the Master. “San Rocco”, “San Sebastiano” and “Madonna with Child with Saint Joseph and Saint Anthony the Abbot”, these are the works that do not appear in the museum itinerary of Palazzo Borromeo.

PALAZZO BORROMEO ART COLLECTION: A SHARED WORLD HERITAGE.

The prestigious Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan has also benefited from a loan from the art collection of Palazzo Borromeo. In 2017, on the occasion of the redesigning of the layout of the rooms devoted to the 18th century, the “Blessed Bernardo Tolomei Helping Plague Victims” (Pompeo Batoni and his workshop), the usual position of which on Isola Bella is in the Napoleon Room, was also exhibited here

PALAZZO BORROMEO ART COLLECTION: A SHARED WORLD HERITAGE.

The artistic dialogue with Milan has precedents in 2008, when the exhibition “Looking at Nature from Poussin to Turner” was organised at the Museo Diocesano Chiostri di Sant’Eustorgio.

 

The protagonist on that occasion was “Storm at Sea” by Pieter Mulier the Cavalier Tempesta, within the sphere of an exhibition offering a number of significant examples of images in which the protagonists are nature and its light. Approximately in the same years (2006/2007), certain artistic treasures not on display to the public travelled to Milan for a collaboration with the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, which received a series of portraits and works by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, known as Gianpietrino, Vincenzo Catena and Bernardino De Conti on loan. The same masterpieces will also be included in an exhibition organised at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna.

PALAZZO BORROMEO ART COLLECTION: A SHARED WORLD HERITAGE.

An exhibition on Vedutism organised on Isola Bella in 2015 was the initiative that established a link with the Capital of Italy and the Galleria Colonna. In this circumstance, the two players arranged an exchange of works: the Rome Gallery lent two paintings by Van Wittel, “L’Isola Bella” and “Le Isole Borromee” and in return received “La Piazza e il Palazzo di Montecavallo” and “Piazza San Pietro” by the same artist from the Borromeo art collection.

PALAZZO BORROMEO ART COLLECTION: A SHARED WORLD HERITAGE.
PALAZZO BORROMEO ART COLLECTION: A SHARED WORLD HERITAGE.

Going beyond the national confines, the work “Birth of St. Charles” by Andrea Lanzani arrived in Corsica in 2014. The loan to Palais Fesch in Ajaccio occurred to coincide with the exhibition “La peinture en Lombardie au XVII siècle. La violence des passions et l’idéal de beauté”. The episode in the life of St. Charles represented is in tune with the narrative sensibility of the painters of the Baroque age and met with unexpected good fortune in the third quarter of the 17th century, coinciding with the centenary of the saint’s death.

PALAZZO BORROMEO ART COLLECTION: A SHARED WORLD HERITAGE.

Finally, the work “Portrait of a Man” by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, on display in the Galleria Berthier, flew to New York in 2004. The loan took place for the exhibition “Painter of Reality: the Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombard Painting” at the Metropolitan.

PALAZZO BORROMEO ART COLLECTION: A SHARED WORLD HERITAGE.
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