Exhibition of works of art from Renaissance Pavia in the fifty years preceding the Battle, with the loan of the spectacular Tapestries from the Museum and Real Bosco di Capodimonte

The exhibition is curated by Francesco Frangi, Pietro Cesare Marani, Mauro Natale, Laura Aldovini and, for the tapestry section, Carmine Romano and Mario Epifani for the Capodimonte Museum. The scientific committee is chaired by Annalisa Zanni, former Director of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, and includes some of the leading experts of the Renaissance period and in particular, in addition to the curators, Marco Albertario, Rosario Maria Anzalone, Stefania Buganza, Pier Luigi Mulas, Edoardo Rossetti. They are joined by other experts who have contributed to the catalogue, including Sylvain Bellenger, Thomas P. Campbell, Andrea Di Lorenzo, Luisa Giordano, Cecilia Paredes.

The exhibition intends – on the one hand – to give back to the general public the splendid artistic and cultural flowering that the city of Pavia experienced in the Renaissance, in the historical phase that precedes and leads to the somewhat catastrophic event of 1525, and on the other hand to surprise the visitor with the depiction of the battle, conceived and created a few years later, in the spectacular tapestries of the Capodimonte Museum, exceptionally loaned for the Five Hundredth Anniversary, woven in the years 1528-1531 by the Flemish manufactory of Jan and Willem Dermoyen to designs by Bernard von Orley.