The Municipality of Brescia and the Brescia Museums Foundation present today the temporary exhibition of the drawing by Andrea Mantegna depicting the Deposition, a new episode of the program PTM ROUND TRIP, the format of the Brescia Museums Foundation that transforms the "departures" linked to loan requests into "arrivals" of guest works: an opportunity to welcome masterpieces that dialogue with the permanent collection in the rooms of the Pinacoteca, giving Brescians and tourists the opportunity to constantly reinterpret, according to new interpretations and new points of view, the museum's rooms. 

In this case, Room 1 of the Pinacoteca hosts the most precious sheet of the civic collection of drawings: a work that has represented the collections of Brescia worldwide, between New York, London, and Paris, and in Italy has been called to participate in the most important exhibitions dedicated to Andrea Mantegna in recent decades, such as the exhibitions in Turin and Verona. Usually kept for conservation reasons in the drawers of the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints, it will be temporarily exhibited in the space usually reserved for Saint George and the Dragon, also an iconic work of our Collections, dating back to around 1460. The painting will be a guest in the coming months at the 20th International Art Exhibition of Illegio (Udine), Il Coraggio, which opens its doors to visitors today and will be visitable in the mountain center of Carnia until November 3.

The exhibition of the Mantegna drawing is an exceptional opportunity, as it has never been exhibited contemporaneously in Brescia based on bibliographic and archival research to date. An extraordinary document of the development of the new Renaissance language by the Paduan master, the sheet is linked by a significant continuity of themes and compositional variations to some other drawings held in prestigious public and private collections. According to the documentation, the sheet arrived in the city's collections in 1863, through the bequest of Camillo Brozzoni, and was presented in two landmark exhibitions on Mantegna: in 1930 in London, at the Italian art exhibition promoted by Lady Chamberlain and curated by Ettore Modigliani, and in 1948 in Zurich for the major exhibition dedicated to Lombard art "Kunstschätze der Lombardei".