Istituted in 1985 by the Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena in a dedicated exhibition space within the late nineteenth-century building that houses the central headquarters of the institute, 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 was formed over the past decades through a systematic acquisition campaign, aimed particularly at documenting significant aspects and moments of the Emiliano and Romagnolo artistic history.
The museum’s arrangement initially presents works by the Master of S. Miniato and the Master of the Tondo Miller, representatives of Florentine figurative culture to which the contribution of painters from Romagna was certainly not alien, here represented by the panels of the Master of Marradi, active in Tuscany between the 15th and 16th centuries. Exceptionally documented is the Forlivesi painter Marco Palmezzano with the famous Madonna enthroned and Saints John the Baptist and Philip Benizi, coming from the Faenza Raccolta Ferniani, the Madonna with Child, part of a large altarpiece, dismantled and dispersed, formerly preserved in the Lee of Fareham Collection in London, the Christ carrying the cross formerly in the Raccolta Pacelli of 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 Romagnolo and Emiliano painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, but there are also paintings of extraregional interest such as those by Sodoma, Brusasorci, Santi di Tito. The 18th century also presents 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, previously in the Vitetti Collection in Rome, was recovered from the antiques market in 1994).
The segment of contemporary art testifies, through its works, the desire to bear witness to the development, over the centuries, of national and Romagnolo visual figurative culture, which for the art of the 20th century and today collects 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 gallery hosted the exhibition on the theme of Woodcut in Romagna from Barbieri to Nonni and the exhibition focused on La Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena.
Information about the Pinacoteca della Cassa di Risparmio
Corso Garibaldi, 18,
47521 Cesena (Forlì-Cesena)
0547358305
pinacoteca@carispcesena.it
https://www.fondazionecarispcesena.it/pinacoteca/
Source: MIBACT
