Castello del Buonconsiglio monumenti e collezioni provinciali

The Renaissance and the passion for antiquity. Andrea Riccio and his times

Location: Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio

04 Juli - 01 November 2008

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10 am - 6 pm Closed Mondays

Organised in collaboration with the Superintendency for Historic and Artistic Heritage and the Diocesano Tridentino Museum, this exhibition brings to life the artistic and cultural period of the Paduan Renaissance through the work of one of its protagonists, Andrea Riccio.
Hailed as one of the great sculptors of his age in 1504 by the humanist Pomponio Gaurico in De sculptura, Andrea Briosco, known as Riccio (meaning 'curl'’) was a refined exponent of the taste for antiquity that developed in Padua between the 15th and 16th centuries.
For Riccio, the encounter with classicism was fundamental: from there he took themes and stylistic solutions that he reproduced using a powerful and original language. His experience, which drew upon the teachings of Donatello and his pupil Bartolomeo Bellano, was intertwined with the works of other great sculptors based in Padua such as Giovanni de Fonduli, Pietro, Antonio and Tullio Lombardo, Pirgotele, Vincenzo and Gian Girolamo Grandi.
The exhibition features paintings, drawings, engravings, works in marble and crystal, but above all in bronze and terracotta, from important Italian and foreign institutions, which document the rich work of these masters, providing the public with its first opportunity to study a substantial selection of Riccio’s sophisticated production.