Istituted in 1985 by the Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena in a dedicated exhibition space inside the late nineteenth-century building that houses the institute’s headquarters, it comprises over forty paintings from the mid-15th century to the late eighteenth century, with a selection also of works from the 20th century. The collection was formed over the last decades through a systematic acquisition campaign, aimed in particular at documenting aspects and key moments of the figurative history of Emilia and Romagna.
The museum’s layout initially presents works by the Master of S. Miniato and the Master of the Tondo Miller, representatives of Florentine figurative culture to whom the contribution of painters from Romagna was certainly not foreign, 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 Faentina Ferniani Collection; the Madonna and Child, part of a large altarpiece, dismantled and dispersed, formerly kept 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 outline an interesting path in Romagnol and Emilian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but paintings of extra-regional interest are not missing, such as those by Sodoma, Brusasorci, and Santi di Tito.
The eighteenth century also offers some of the major protagonists 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, already in the Vitetti Collection in Rome, was recovered on the antiquarian market in 1994).
The segment of contemporary art attests, with its works, the intention to testify to the development, over the centuries, of national and Romagnol figurative visual culture, which for 20th century and present 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 has hosted the exhibition on the theme of Woodcutting in Romagna from Barbieri to Nonni and the exhibition centered on the Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena.
Information about the Pinacoteca of the Cassa di Risparmio
Corso Garibaldi, 18,
47521 Cesena (Forlì-Cesena)
0547358305
pinacoteca@carispcesena.it
https://www.fondazionecarispcesena.it/pinacoteca/
Source: MIBACT
