Established in 1985 by the Savings Bank of Cesena in a dedicated exhibition space inside the late 19th-century building housing the institution’s headquarters, it includes over forty paintings from the mid-15th century to the late 18th century, also featuring a selection of 20th-century works. The collection has been formed over recent decades through a systematic acquisition campaign, particularly aimed at documenting key aspects and moments of the Emilian and Romagna pictorial history.
The museum’s arrangement initially features works by the Master of S. Miniato and the Master of the Tondo Miller, exponents of the Florentine pictorial culture to which the contribution of painters from Romagna was certainly relevant, here represented by the panels of the Master of Marradi, active in Tuscany between the 15th and 16th centuries. Exceptionally documented is the painter from Forlì, Marco Palmezzano, with the famous Madonna Enthroned and Saints John the Baptist and Philip Benizi, coming from the Faenza Ferniani Collection, the Madonna and Child, part of a large altarpiece, dismantled and dispersed, formerly held in the Lee of Fareham Collection in London, the Christ Carrying the Cross previously at the Pacelli Collection in Rome. Works by Bagnacavallo, Girolamo Marchesi, Luca Longhi, Ferraù Fenzoni, Denis Calvaert, Alessandro Ardenti, Lanfranco, Scarsellino, Spada, Tiarini, Guercino, Sirani, Cagnacci, Serra, Savolini frame an interesting path through 16th and 17th-century Romagna and Emilian painting, while not lacking paintings of wider regional interest such as those by Sodoma, Brusasorci, Santi di Tito. The 18th century also offers some of the greatest figures of the Bolognese artistic scene, from Canuti to Pasinelli, from Dal Sole to Franceschini (author of the splendid Embrace between Justice and Peace), from Milani to Creti (whose famous Transit of the Virgin was retrieved on the antique market in 1994, formerly in the Vitetti Collection in Rome).
The segment of contemporary art testifies, through its works, to the desire to document the development over the centuries of the national and Romagna figurative visual culture, which for 20th-century and contemporary art includes works by Virgilio Guidi, Raffaele De Grada, Arturo Tosi, Giovanni Cappelli, Osvaldo Piraccini Obes Gazza, Luciano Caldari, and works by Alberto Sughi, further increased in 2006. Subsequently, the pinacoteca hosted the exhibition on the theme of Woodcut in Romagna from Barbieri to Nonni and the exhibition focused on the Savings Bank of Cesena.
Information about Pinacoteca of the Savings Bank
Corso Garibaldi, 18,
47521 Cesena (Forlì-Cesena)
0547358305
pinacoteca@carispcesena.it
https://www.fondazionecarispcesena.it/pinacoteca/
Source: MIBACT
