The short guided tours in English on the most representative works in the collections of the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.
The meeting of October will be an opportunity to learn more about painting in Bologna between the sixteenth and the seventeenth century through some of the most significant works of the time.
We will start from the scenic Supper of Saint Gregory the Great painted by Giorgio Vasari for the Olivetan monastery of San Michele in Bosco, a masterpiece of Mannerist painting, to reach the artistic and cultural reformation promoted at the end of the sixteenth century by the cousins Ludovico and Annibale Carracci, authors of the Announciation and the Madonna of Saint Ludwig of Toulouse respectively.
Guido Reni, the most illustrious pupil of the Carracci, is the absolute protagonist of the last room of the itinerary with the famous Massacre of the Innocents and the Victorious Samson.