The flashes of art continue: the Virgilian Renaissance in terracotta at the Temple of San Sebastiano

The flashes of art continue: the Virgilian Renaissance in terracotta at the Temple of San Sebastiano.

Mantua. Wednesday 18 October at 18 pm, at Temple of San Sebastiano the review of the Flash art series continues. The event, organized with Friends of Palazzo Te, Under the patronage of Municipality of Mantua, will focus on the Virgilian Renaissance in terracotta.

The meeting will be hosted by Marco Scansani, art historian, currently research fellow atUniversity of Trento for a mapping project of fifteenth-century terracotta sculptors in the Po valley. Terracotta was a material used to create sculptures during the Renaissance, especially in contexts without marble quarries, and was greatly appreciated for its versatility. Many experiments have been carried out in the artistic field thanks to his "humility". He was often employed by the mendicant orders. The Mantua area does not appear to have continuously hosted important molders' workshops as happened in many other contexts of the area po valley: for example a Padua, Ferrara, Modena and Cremona.

The numerous clay sculptures preserved at Alberti Temple, at Maca and in other Virgilian institutions will in any case offer the opportunity to retrace and where possible reconstruct the unknown history of terracotta sculpture in the Mantua area.

for Reservations tel. 0376 367087. Information: https://maca.museimantova.it/ .