Timetables
Every day: 10.30am – 7.30pm. (The ticket office closes 30 minutes before)
Also open 8, 25 and 26 December, 1 and 6 January, Easter and Easter Monday
Entrance
Single reduced ticket for all: € 10.00 (presale € 1 per person)
Free: minors up to 12 years old, 100% handicapped people with a companion, tourist guides, journalists with ID cards (after registering via the accreditation form), ICOM card holders, “heroes in the ward”: health personnel who worked in Covid departments throughout Italy with self-certification

Information and reservations for exhibitions and museums in Ferrara
0532 244949 /// diamante@comune.fe.it /// www.palazzodiamanti.it

Timetables Every day: 10.30am – 7.30pm. (The ticket office closes 30 minutes before) Also open 8, 25 and 26 December, 1 and 6 January, Easter and Easter Monday Entrance Single reduced ticket for all: € 10.00 (presale € 1 per person)

Free: minors up to 12 years old, 100% handicapped people with a companion, tourist guides, journalists with ID cards (after registering via the accreditation form), ICOM card holders, “heroes in the ward”: health personnel who worked in Covid departments throughout Italy with self-certification

Contacts – Estense Castle – Largo Castello
tel. 0532 419180
castelloestense@comune.fe.it Hours

10.00-18.00. Last entry 5.15pm. Closed on Tuesday.

“From Schifanoia: re-enchant the world” from Sunday 18 December 2022, at the Estense Castle Hall of Coats of Arms open until 10 April 2023.

The installation ‘From Schifanoia: re-enchanting the world’ by the Roma-Polish artist Malgorzata Mirga-Tas now arrives in Ferrara at the Sala degli Stemmi of the Estense Castle from 18 December to 10 April.

In fact, the exhibition takes place where it all began, from the history and monuments that have become a source of inspiration for her work.

Mirga-Tas visited Ferrara for the first time and during her stay she lingered on the frescoes of Palazzo Schifanoia. You have seen the places immortalized by the Ferrarese writer Giorgio Bassani, admired the works of great masters such as Francesco del Cossa and Ercole de ‘Roberti, discovered the figure of Duke Borso d’ Este, patron of the two artists and patron of the Salone dei Mesi.

However, visitors to the Ferrara exhibition will not see the same events represented in the three bands of the frescoes in the Salone dei Mesi. The stories of the divinities of Olympus, those of the deans and the scenes of courtesan life in Ferrara in the fifteenth century have in fact been replaced by episodes narrated by the artist. The upper band depicts the mythical journey of the Roma people to Europe, inspired by a series of 17th-century prints by the Lorraine engraver Jacques Callot. The central band is an affective archive of Roma stories declined in the feminine that combines images of real women with magical and astrological elements. The lower one shows daily life in the artist’s hometown, Czarna Gora, and in other Roma settlements in the Tatra mountains, such as Podhale and Spis, in Poland.

The exhibition at the Estense Castle, organized by the Ferrara Arte Foundation, the Art Museum Service of the Municipality of Ferrara and Zacheta – the National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, includes eight of the twelve canvases created by the artist. Mirga-Tas has decided to exhibit the months of March, April, May, June, July, August, September and October: the first seven are still visible at Palazzo Schifanoia.

Palazzo Diamanti: reopening in February 2023
Palazzo dei Diamanti will reopen with the Ercole de’ Roberti and Lorenzo Costa review (from 18 February to 19 June 2023), a major exhibition that will present the public with a selection of works from some of the most important national and international museums. An unrepeatable opportunity to admire the masterpieces of two Renaissance masters such as Ercole de’ Roberti (c. 1450 – 1496) and Lorenzo Costa (1460 – 1535).

The exhibition constitutes the first stage of a larger and more ambitious project entitled Renaissance in Ferrara 1471-1598 from Borso to Alfonso II d’Este, which will investigate the historical-artistic story of the period between the elevation of the city to dukedom and the its passage from the Este dynasty to the direct control of the Papal State.
The over one hundred works on display, coming from museums and collections from all over the world, will offer the public a unique and perhaps unrepeatable opportunity to discover (or rediscover) the art of two great interpreters of the Italian Renaissance: Ercole de’ Roberti and Lorenzo Costa.
Equipped with an incredible compositional talent, extraordinary in quality and emotional expressiveness, Ercole de’ Roberti (Ferrara c. 1450 – 1496) was the heir of the Ferrarese Workshop, the youngest and most intelligent among those who participated in the cultural climate of Palazzo Schifanoia, in the last years of the government of Borso who just then received the title of duke (1471). He worked several times in Bologna, where he left a very deep imprint, but there is no doubt that in Ferrara he found the most suitable environment in which to express himself during the last decade of his life, spent employed by the court.
It was Lorenzo Costa (Ferrara 1460 – Mantua 1535), ten years younger, who inherited his legacy and continued his style in his early works. But during a long stay in Bologna his painting
it changed in the direction of greater softness, of a calm and relaxed classicism. The world was changing, Leonardo and Perugino were imposing a new “manner”, which Costa understood
immediately and of which he was among the greatest interpreters, even after the transfer to Mantua to the Gonzaga court.
Visitors will be able to follow Ercole’s career through over twenty works (by far the largest number ever assembled), from his beginnings to his full maturity.

Reservations

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