The Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna is one of those provincial gems in a country full of artistic treasures. It collection is stunning, fully documented the history of the city in its contribution to Italian art. The gallery is housed in the old Jesuit convent. It is located within walking distance from the city centre, in the university district. Its original formation is much older and linked to the foundation of the modern academy and the new university. Its included some of the major paintings produced in city, with emphasis on works by the Bologna School of painters. Among it wide collection are works by famous artist like Giotto, Franca, the Carracci family of painters, Raphael, Reni and Perugino, with paintings spanning from Gothic to the 18C. The majority of the images were taken during my visit to the city in 2017.

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Sibyl. c1635
by Guido Reni
Home of the Bolognese School

2. The collection housed mainly paintings of the region, Emilian Romina. Primarily, it covers the period
from 13th to the 18th Century. You will be able to explore works of the local painters other than the
well-known masterpieces, before, during and after the Renaissance. The overwhelming majority of its
works dealt with religious subjects.
Introduction

3. 13C – Pre-Renaissance
The Maestro of the Franciscan Crucifixes had developed
his distinctive style of an arching iconic Christ. On the
other hand St Helen was painted in more naturalistic style.
13C

4. 14C – Giotto di Bondone
Known simply as Giotto (c1270-1337), he was born near Florence. He was an important proto-Renaissance painter, well
known for his works in the Upper Church at Assisi. This is a prized exhibit.
13C

5. 14C – Vitale da Bologna
Vitale da Bologna (1289 or 1309 – 1369), also
known as Vidolini was an early Renaissance
painter. He was a representative of the 14C
Bologna painters. This is one of his
masterpiece. The painting is very unusual for
its time. It is full of action, depicting the moment
that St George is about to spear the dying
dragon.
There is a big room in the gallery devoted
completely to his frescoes painted on the
Church of Santa Apollonia in Mezzaratta.
They are often called the Mezzaratta
frescoes. (see the ‘End’ slide).

6. 14C – Lippo di Dalmasio

7. 14C – Jacopo da Bologna

8. 14C – Jacopo da Bologna

9. 15C – L Monaco
Lorenzo Monaco (c1370-1425) was born in Siena, Italy.
He was a painter at the transition between Gothic to early
Renaissance.
15C

10. 15C – Giovanni de Modena
Giovanni da Modena is first recorded in
Bologna in 1409. Not much is known
about him.

11. 15C – Michele di Matteo
Michele di Matteo was active 1410 – 1448 or 1469, in
Bologna. He painted frescoes and designed windows for
the Basilica San Petronio and the church of San Giacomo
of Bologna.

12. 15C – A di Bartolomeo Maineri
Maineri, Antonio di Bartolomeo (1476-1495) was born in
Bologna. He was painter of the Bolognese school.
Mantegna painted his famour St Sebastian a few
years earlier c1480. It is now in the Louvre.

13. 15th
Century – F Francia
Francesco Francia (1450-1517) was born in
Bologna. He was a painter, goldsmith and
medallist. He became a court painter in Mantua
and a friend of Raphael.

14. 15C – F Francia
Francesco Francia (1450-1517) was born in
Bologna. He was a painter, goldsmith and
medallist. He became a court painter in Mantua
and a friend of Raphael.

15. 15C – F Francia

16. 16C – P Perugino
15C
Pietro Perugino (c 1446/52-1523) was born in
Umbria. His best known for his fresco, ‘The Delivery
of the Keys’’ which is hanged in the Sistine Chapel

17. 16C – P Perugino

18. 16C – P Perugino

19. 16C – S Raphael
Sanzio Raphael (1483-1520) was the Italian painter
and architect. Together with Leonardo and
Michelangelo, he was associated with the High
Renaissance. Particular in his early career, Raphael
was the artist to paint altarpieces for Madonna and
Child.
On this painting, ‘The Ecstasy of St Cecilia” Raphael
painted the patron saint of music surrounded by St
Paul, St John, St Augustine and Mary Magdalene.
Best known for his ‘The School of Athens’ in the Vatican Museum.
16C

20. 16C – S Raphael

21. 16C – S Raphael

22. 16C – S Raphael

23. 16C – Parmigianino
Parmigianino completed two big paintings while he was in
Bologna. Parmigianino (1503-24), also known as
Francesco Mazzola. He was born in Parma and his
Mannerist work is often described as “refine sensuality”,
with elongated bodies.
‘Where High Renaissance art emphasizes proportion,
balance, and ideal beauty. Mannerism exaggerates
such qualities, often resulting in composition that are
asymmetrical or unnaturally elegant’ Wikipedia.
Parmigianino was an Italian Mannerist.

24. 16C – Innocenzo da Imola
Innocenzo da Imola (1494-1550) was born
in Imola and moved to Bologna in 1506 to
study painting, under Francesco Francia. .

25. 16C – G da Cotignola
Girolamo da Cotignola (c1471-1550) was
trained with Francesco Francia in Bologna,
then in Rome under Raphael. Also known
as Girolamo Marchesit.

26. 16C – L Mazzlino
Ludovico Mazzolino (1480-
c1528) also known as
Mazzonini da Ferrara,
Lodovico Ferraresa. He
came under the influence of
Ercola Roberti. He was
known for devotional cabinet
pictures. He was active in
Bologna and Ferrara.

27. 16C – L Mazzlino

28. 16C – P Fontana
Prospero Fontana (1512-1597) was born in Bologna. He
was an early painter of the Bolognese school. It is
reported that Michelangelo introduced him to pope Julius
III as a portrait painter.

29. 16C – P Fontana

30. 16C – P Fontana

31. 16C – P Fontana

32. 16C – L Carracci
Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619) was born in
Bologna. He was a cousin of Annibale and had
worked together.

33. Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was active in
Bologna and later in Rome. He was a pupil
of Ludovico Carracci and was by far the
greatest artist of the three Carraccis. He
was the most active founders of a leading
strand of the Baroque style.
16C – A Carracci

34. 16C – A Carracci
Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was active in Bologna and
later in Rome. One of a pair of painting of the Annunciation.

35. Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was active in Bologna and
later in Rome. One of a pair of painting of the Annunciation.
16C – A Carracci

36. Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was active in
Bologna and later in Rome.
16C – A Carracci

37. Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was active in
Bologna and later in Rome.
16C – A Carracci

38. Disturbed by the excesses of the
Mannerist painters, they took it upon
themselves to reform art through a
process of research and experiment.
Professing the superiority of direct
observation, they drew from the actual
model. Their clear, simple, direct
pictures fit well the demands of the
Counter-Reformation that in religious
art there be no barriers between
observer and object. (Encyclopaedia
Britannica)
Bolognese School
Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619)Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619) Annibale Carracci (1560-
1609), Self-portrait.
Agostino Carracci (1557-1602)
Domenichino (1581-1641), Self-portrait.
Also called Domenico Zampieri
Guido Reni (1575-1642), Self-portrait.

39. 17C – L Spade
Leonello Spada (1576-1622) was a
Bolognese painter active in Rome and a
follower of Caravaggio.
17C

40. 17C – G Reni
Guido Reni (1575-1642) returned to
Bologna after sometimes in Rome, where
he met Dometichino and maybe also
Caravaggio. He remain in Bologna for the
rest of his life. He was also one of the
Bolognese School of painters.
Guido Reni painted mostly religious,
mythological and allegorical works. He was
the most celebrated of Bolognese painters
and widely influential though his many
pupils. Outside of Italy, Spanish artist
Murillo and French Charles Le Brun were
influenced by Guido Reni.

41. 17C – G Reni

42. 17C – G Reni
Guido Reni was a subtle colourist, a master
of graceful line and composition. His unique
synthesis of naturalism and idealizing
classicism was an important influence.

43. 17C – G Reni
Sibyl was a prophetess in Greek and
Roman legend. This painting by Guido
Reni is absolutely stunning. We also
painted several similar painting on the same
theme.

44. Guercino (1591-1666) also called Giovanni
Francesco Barbieri was active in Bologna
and Rome. He was a Baroque painter. The
vigorous naturalism of his earlier works, are
in contrast to the classical equilibrium of his
later paintings.
17C – Guercino

45. 17C – Guercino

46. Guercino (1591-1666) also called Giovanni
Francesco Barbieri was active in Bologna
and Rome.
17C – Guercino

47. 17C – G D Cerrini
Gian Domenico Cerrini (1608-1681) born in
Perugia and active in Rome but influenced
in large part by the Bolognese School.

48. 17C – G D Cerrini

49. 17C – Domenichino
Domenico Zampieri, known as Domenichino
(1581-1641) born in Bologna. Left Bologna
for Rome in 1602.and worked under
Annibale Carracci.

50. 17th
Century
Giovanni Antonio Burrini (1656-1727) was a
Bolognese painter..

51. 18C – D Creti
Donato Creti (1671-1749) born in Cremona and
moved to Bologna, active mostly in Bologna.
18C

52. 18C – A R Mengs
Anton Ralphael Mengs (1728-79) was a
portraitist of the second half of the 18C, a
forerunner of the French Neoclassicism. He
was a German Bohemian painter active in
Rome, Madred and Saxony.

53. 18C – A R Mengs

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