Bellini's Lamentation Shown in Milan with Contemporary Dialogues

A moving painting by Giovanni Bellini, the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, has arrived from the Vatican Museums and is on display at the Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini in Milan. The work, originally the cimasa of the altarpiece for the church of San Francesco in Pesaro, was painted by the Venetian master in 1475. The exhibition is curated by Nadia Righi, director of the Museo Diocesano di Milano, and Fabrizio Biferali, curator of the 15th-16th Century Art Department of the Vatican Museums, with a catalogue published by Dario Cimorelli. In collaboration with Casa Testori, four contemporary artists—Letizia Cariello, Emma Ciceri, Francesco De Grandi, and Andrea Mastrovito—present works in dialogue with Bellini's masterpiece. Cariello's "Per te Myriam di Migdel" uses nails and red threads; Mastrovito's "War Christ" is a frottage updating the Gospel drama; Ciceri's video "Studio di mani" focuses on hands; De Grandi's large canvas reinterprets Bellini's iconography. The contemporary section is curated by Giuseppe Frangi.