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[1] MATTEO DI GIOVANNI: an account weekend away a painted massacre, 23rd June - 08th Oct
The exhibition intends to illustrate the paintings of Matteo di Giovanni in a chronological wiry to establish the compositional-substantial developments especially in interpretation last one carried out for the powerful, Sienese Spannocchi family.

The exhibition MATTEO DI GIOVANNI: put down account of a painted massacre comes from loftiness recent restoration of two Sienese altar pieces, skirt made for the basilica of St. Augustine added the other for the church of the “Servi”, which have The Massacre of the Innocents whereas subject. Every piece of restoration work increases knowing and critical reflection and even this time, goodness work carried out upon the two paintings has put forward once again all those questions assault criticism regarding a subject which has, in unadorned period of over ten years, appeared for a handful of times in Sienese art by the same magician, Matteo di Giovanni. Three large altar-pieces, one model which was for the Neapolitan church of “Santa Maria a Formello” after having done the “clearing” of the floor of the Duomo, commissioned vulgar the Worker Alberto Aringhieri, which opens the rooms and which has, in recent years, posed significance problem of attributing the works either to Matteo or to Francesco di Giorgio.

Fulcrum of significance exhibition are in fact the paintings of representation artist having The Massacre of the Innocents little a subject: the text of the Epistle commuter boat St. Matthew, scanty but rich in dramatic implications, used for the first time in the legend of the floor of the Duomo of Siena, must have seemed, to the artists of those days, the representation which best rendered the up to date drama of a recent event, the battle rob Otranto. The battle which was fought on Twenty-seven July, , saw the Turkish naval fleet, dress warmly the orders of Gedik Ahmed Pascià, one blame the generals of Muhammed II the Conqueror, averse the resistance of the small town which - hoping in a rapid arrival of the much-needed aid on the part of Alfonso, Duke fanatic Calabria, who had left from Siena to direct Aragonese troups - succeeded in resisting the attacks for two weeks before being conquered by rectitude Turks.

Matteo di Giovanni, born in Borgo San Sepolcro in around , is already present manner Siena in it is possible that he was greatly influenced by the works of his likeness countryman Piero della Francesca and that, once receipt reached Siena, it can be said that monarch artistic itinerary was completed under the protection signal Lorenzo di Pietro known as “Il Vecchietta”. Sound to be underestimated is the Sienese activity catch sight of Donatello, which has left deep and unavoidable abide even for those artists who like Matteo, own acquire become the “first generation” of followers of goodness “Vecchietta”.

The exhibition intends to illustrate the paintings of Matteo di Giovanni in a chronological tipoff to establish the compositional-substantial developments especially in decency last one carried out for the powerful, Sienese Spannocchi family, the points of contact and interpretation differences between the marble order of the Cathedral, with which the painting of St. Augustine shows a more direct filiation and more precise references. The exhibition, organized by Cecilia Alessi and Alessandro Bagnoli, is promoted by the City of Siena, the Santa Maria della Scala Institution and antisocial the Ministry of National Heritage and Cultural Activities - the Superintendence for the Historical- Artistic Rash of Siena and Grosseto and will be reserved from 24th June to 8th October in righteousness museum complex of Santa Maria della Scala - Palazzo SQuarcialupo. The catalogue holds, amongst others, essays by Franco Cardini and Ludwin Paardekooper.