Christ’s passion: the masterpieces of the Renaissance in Castle Gandolfo

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As of Saturday, April 5, 2025, Castle Gandolfo Palace will host a beautiful exhibition that combines absolute masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance: lamenting the dead Christ from Giovanni Bilini, from the Vatican Pinacoteca, and the dead Christ supported by angels from Giovanni Antonio Batea, known as Soanta Dea. Huerto de Roma. The initiative, which is promoted by the Vatican Museums and its treatment by the Ministry of Arts in the centuries XV-XVI, is part of the liturgical time for the elimination and Eid, providing visitors with a special aesthetic and spiritual experience in particular. The two works, both of which are dedicated to contemplating the mourning body of Christ, are only two illustrated players for their time, but also the axioms of Jesus’ passion.

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The French were stolen by the treaty from Tallentino (1797) and returned to Italy thanks to the mediation from Antonio Kanova. Pinacoteca has been deposited in the Vatican since 1820, and the work has recently benefited from a precise restoration that was conducted in the Vatican laboratories, which re -polish the color and the synthetic balance, based on transparency, Chiaroskurus and precious dyes such as rinium and labisolese. The painting moves through the moving gesture of Mary Magdalina, which, in the silence of the grave, is the sores of Christ with reports of hands that resemble the whisper forever.

Bellini accompanies this exhibition, The Dead Christ, which was attached to the angels, which was drawn by Sodom for the year 1505, is accompanied by his first artistic maturity, after Milan and his stable arrival in Rome and then to Siena. The work of the Romanian Romanians and also its recovery in the past in the workshops of the Vatican Museums (1933-1934), a painful but luminous contemplation on the body of Christ, supported by four angels, in the formation of great elegance and emotional density. The iconic reference confirms the small bronze statue of Galeazzo Mondella, known as the modern, carved in Milan around 1500, to link to the graphic culture of Bo Bo and Leonardo Da Vinci Valley.

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“It is a comparison and spiritual icon that exceeds time and elegance,” says Barbara Gata, director of the Vatican Museums. “Providing the possibility of admiration with two actions full of theological and historical sense in the framework of Castel Gandolfo is a unique occasion to assess the identity of the Vatican groups: sincerity of traditions, and openness to research.” “Both of them work-where Fabrizio Pienteli, the governor of the XV-XV arts department, offers themselves to read a layer: on the one hand, the narrative approach and mercy of Pelini, on the other hand, the dynamic tension and vibrant power of the Luma table. Double optical consider emotion, able to clarify scientists, believers and fans.

The entrance to the exhibition, which can be visited from next Saturday, is included in the regular ticket of the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo. The tour is designed to provide a contemplative experience, accompanied by bilateral educational paintings.