Mostra "Scrigno di memorie. Paesaggi, colore e tradizione: cinque secoli di arte del Meridione" - La Galleria BPER a L'Aquila

The BPER Banca collection housed at Palazzo Farinosi Branconi tells five centuries of Italian painting through works from different collecting nuclei, brought together for the first time in an exhibition open to the public. The heart of the collection was formed thanks to the consultancy of Ferdinando Bologna, the most important art historian from Abruzzo of the twentieth century, whose choices give the whole a precise and recognizable critical direction. Eleven rooms host paintings ranging from fifteenth-century Aquilan art to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with works by Cola dell'Amatrice, Luca Giordano, Mattia Preti, Salvator Rosa and Francesco Paolo Michetti, among others. The dialogue with the palace's interiors — the frescoed rooms, the wooden ceilings, the pictorial cycles on the walls — is an integral part of the experience: not a simple backdrop, but a second narrative running parallel to that of the works.