SABAUDA GALLERY, The 16Th Century

After the hallway that crosses the first section of the museum, your tour through the 500 paintings of Sabauda Gallery continues in the rooms dedicated to the High Renaissance.

You can make a particularly impressive comparison between the various Italian art schools thanks to the presence of numerous important paintings from the Piedmont and Lombardy schools. These halls feature the most important local painter of the early 1500s, the robust and expressive Gaudenzio Ferrari. Among his many paintings in Sabauda Gallery, I'd like to point out the crowded and dynamic Crucifixion, which was depicted as a popular, realistic drama. The works by Lombard painter Giovan Gerolamo Savoldo from the same period are also quite poetic and moving, especially his Adoration of the Shepherds....