54 important works selected from the collections of Accademia Carrara in Italy form this exhibition of art treasures titled “From Renaissance to the 19th Century”.

Opened on Aug 12 at Bund ONE ART Museum, the stirring exhibition is jointly launched by Shanghai Xinhua Distribution Group.,Ltd., Shanghai Tix-Media Co.,Ltd., Accademia Carrara and Arthemisia. 

It highlights masterpieces of Raffaello, Tiziano, Bellini, Rubens and so on that have been enlightening in the history of art. 

Among them, there are a number of masterpieces we have learned in various books on the history of western art.

It is worth mentioning that this is the first time for Shanghai to hold such an exhibition featuring the original creations of masters collected by Accademia Carrara, a top-notch art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, in Lombardy in northern Italy.

In chronological order, this exhibition presents the development and changes of western painting in the past several hundred years since the 15th century. It is led by the work Saint Sebastian by Raffaello Sanzio, one of the three great masters of the High Renaissance. Although it has been 500 years since Raffaello passed away, his works are still charming.

Saint Sebastian is an early work of Raffaello Sanzio. 

The painter portrays the tormented martyr as a gentleman with a calm and elegant look. The painting is rich in color, and the changes in tones are clear. People can't help admiring the passage of time and the eternity of art.

Giovanni Valagussa, an Italian curator, divides the several hundred years of western art into five parts: Humanism and Renaissance, Venice in the 16th Century, Genres of the 17th Century, the 18th century of civil discoveries and the end of the aristocracy and the 19th century from Romanticism to psychoanalysis.

The paintings displayed cover a variety of art styles including renaissance, mannerism, baroque, rococo, neoclassicism, romanticism, and Italian divisionism. 

Their subjects incorporate all types of western paintings such as religious mythology, historical stories, portraits, genre scene paintings, landscape paintings, still life paintings, etc.

The exhibition will run until Jan 3, 2022.

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