La Spezia: Pieter Brueghel the Younger, The Crucifixion of Castelnuovo Magra

Calendar of events on display from 14 July to 22 September.

Di Annamaria Martinisi il 9 Jul, 2023

La Spezia: Pieter Brueghel the Younger, The Crucifixion of Castelnuovo Magra.

On the occasion of the exhibition Pieter Brueghel the Younger, The Crucifixion of Castelnuovo Magra. Restoration and comparisons The “Amedeo Lia” Civic Museum offers citizens a calendar of ten events to discover Flemish art throughout the summer, from 14 July until the exhibition's finissage on 22 September.
Interdisciplinary guided tours, workshops for the little ones, thematic events in English and classical music concerts: a rich and heterogeneous calendar to bring the Brueghel the Younger exhibition to life in the round, and invite citizens to also rediscover the civic collections of the museum in perfect dialogue with the exhibition currently underway.
All appointments cost an entrance ticket to the “Amedeo Lia” Museum of 8 euros, including entry to the museum collection and the exhibition. The finishing of the exhibition is free.

All appointments:

14 July 17 hours
The story of the Crucifixion of Castelnuovo Magra between history, protection and valorization.
edited by Rossana Vitiello
ABAP Superintendency Genoa and La Spezia

21 July 18 hours
Between Flanders and Italy. The Flemish paintings of the Lia Collection
edited by Andrea Marmori
“Amedeo Lia” Civic Museum

27 July 17 hours
Guided tour in English of the exhibition
edited by Tara Keny

August 3 17 hours
In the shadow of the Crucifixion: one story, many stories
Thematic visit to the exhibition

August 25 18 hours
Flemish portrait
Classical guitar concert by Niccolò Accarpio

1 September 18 hours
Crucifixions. The birth of the idea of tolerance and pluralism in Europe during the seventeenth-century religious wars
By Silvia Ferrari
“Amedeo Lia” Civic Museum

7 September 17 hours
guided tour in English of the exhibition
edited by Tara Keny

12 September 17 hours
Inside Brueghel's Workshop: restoration and iconographic research on the Crucifixion of Castelnuovo Magra
Edited by Valentina Tonini and Martina Avogadro
ABAP Superintendency Genoa and La Spezia
ABAP Superintendency of Savona and Imperia

14 September 17 hours
Hey, inside the painting
Creative play workshop for 6-11 year olds

22 September 17 hours
Finishing.

The exhibition:

Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The Crucifixion of Castelnuovo Magra. Restoration and comparisons is curated by Rossana Vitiello with the collaboration of Andrea Marmori, Valentina Tonini and Martina Avogadro, whose installation is curated by Emanuele Martera.
At the exhibition, in addition to significant works by the artist, the extraordinary painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Brussels 1564 – Antwerp 1638) depicting the Crucifixion is on display, with the aim of valorising the work at the end of the long restoration work carried out at the laboratory of the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan city of Genoa and the province of La Spezia, in collaboration with the University of Genoa regarding diagnostic investigations.
A significant occasion which allowed the light to be turned on again on this amazing Flemish masterpiece, which arrived in the church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Castelnuovo Magra in 1890 and whose recent history is dotted with dramatic events, including thefts and attempted thefts, which have highlighted, once again, the importance of protection and prevention activities for our cultural heritage. This Crucifixion, unique in Italy, is part of the number of replicas of a lost prototype of which there are around twenty versions, which propose the same subject with some variations, all made in Brueghel's workshop and preserved in different international museums.
The presence in the exhibition of the Crucifixion from the church of Saint Séverin in Paris allows for a comparison never made before, iconographic and stylistic, between two examples of this subject, while the Ascent of Christ to Mount Calvary from the Gallerie Estensi in Modena testifies to the success of this theme already at the end of the sixteenth century. The figures taken from the peasant context that participate in the religious subject are also continuously found in other works from Pieter Brueghel's workshop linked to genre painting, as attested in the exhibition The Kermesse of Saint George from the National Museum of Pisa.
The exhibition is promoted by the Municipality of La Spezia with the patronage of the Liguria Region, the Archaeological Superintendence of Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan City of Genoa and the Province of La Spezia, the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and was created with the contribution of the Carispezia Foundation for the restoration intervention as part of the 2021 Open Call in favor of the Santa Maria Maddalena Parish in Castelnuovo Magra and the support of Coop Liguria.