Medioevo a Pistoia - Crocevia di artisti fra Romanico e Gotico
November 27, 2021 to May 29, 2022
Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi & Museo Civico, Pistoia, Italy
Middle Ages in Pistoia: A Crossroads of Artists between Romanesque and Gothic is an exhibition organised by Pistoia Musei and curated by Angelo Tartuferi, Enrica Neri Lusanna, and Ada Labriola. When, in 1140, the relic of Saint James arrived in Pistoia at the behest of Bishop Atto, the Tuscan city was placed among the most important European pilgrimage routes and immediately became an international economic and artistic hub. Against this backdrop, and centered around the celebrated Silver Altar of Saint James, the exhibition presents for the first time the extraordinary panorama of the arts in Pistoia from the 12th to the early 15th century, spanning six chronological sections with over sixty works — paintings, sculptures, goldsmiths' pieces, and illuminated manuscripts — displayed across the spaces of the Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi and the Museo Civico. The city attracted luminaries such as sculptors Guglielmo, Guido da Como, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, while painters including Lippo di Benivieni, Taddeo Gaddi, and Pietro Lorenzetti confirmed Pistoia's central role in Tuscan art, a role the city maintained even through the Late Gothic period despite its political subjugation to Florence.
