Luogo - Museum
Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande
Where
Via Castiglione, 7, Bologna
Formerly the palace was owned by one of the most
prominent families in the city; the Palace was built in the second half
of the seventeenth century, and was only completed in the first decade
of the following century. In the main hall and the other four major
rooms, the walls were frescoed by Domenico Maria Canuti, Giuseppe Maria
Crespi, Donato and Crete, over a period which spanned fifty years of
painting and were touched by the main Bolognese Baroque painters of that
time, which on the one side shows the mature phase of Canuti, and on
the other side introduces Crespi and Creti with their style which
recalls the eighteenth century. The rooms contain a significant
selection of paintings by Zambeccari, which form part of the most
important elements of the city’s painting history. There are works by
the earlier painters of the Emilia Romagna region like those by Lodovico
Carracci, Guercino, Albani and Crespi, and also Passerotti, Tiarini,
Mastelletta, Franceschini, Pasinelli and Crete. In addition to this,
there are also some fine arts from Painting schools in different regions
such as the Florentine, the Genovese, Venetian and Neapolitan painted
by Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano, Bernardo Strozzi, Palma il Giovane,
Sebastiano Ricci and Piazzetta.
