Fondazione Magnani-Rocca - Traversetolo

The Fondazione opened the 19th century Villa Magnani at Mamiano to the public in 1990. The collection housed there, put together by the man of letters and music critic Luigi Magnani (1906-1984), includes many authentic masterpieces of ancient and modern art. The modern and contemporary section includes important works by Italian, European and American artists among the leading representatives of the 20th century, among them a number of works by Giorgio Morandi. The layout of the exhibition, decided by the collector himself, includes about one hundred works. Notable among these are a board painting of the Madonna and Child by the central Italian school, dating between the 11th and the 12th century; two polyptychs, respectively by Mello da Gubbio and Giovanni del Biondo; Saint Francis receiving the stigmata by Gentile da Fabriano; the Madonna and Child by Filippo Lippi; a Saint Sebastian by Lorenzo Costa; the Madonna and Child by Albrecht Dürer; the Dead Christ by Vittore Carpaccio; a Sacred Conversation by Titian; the Portrait of Ferdinando Gonzaga by Peter Paul Rubens; the Equestrian portrait of Giovanni Paolo Balbi by Anthony Van Dyck; the Family of the Infante don Luis by Francisco Goya. There are also works by Mazzolino, Ortolano, Beccafumi, Pittoni, G.B. Tiepolo, Fussli, Dawe, sculptures by Bartolini and Canova, engravings by Schongauer, Dürer, Rembrandt. The modern and contemporary art collection is of considerable interest, containing - besides a large number of works by Giorgio Morandi - paintings by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, de Pisis, Guttuso, Carrà, de Chirico, Manzù, Burri and Leoncillo. The villa furnishings include some famous items in Empire style, such as the malachite basin by Thomire, given to Napoleon by the czar Alexander I, and furniture by the cabinet-maker Jacob.