Just over two months after the inauguration of the two exhibition projects dedicated to Giovanni Battista Gigola and Giuseppe Bezzuoli, the Municipality of Brescia, Fondazione Brescia Musei, and the Ateneo di Scienze, Lettere e Arti present today a new and original variation of the format PTM Andata e Ritorno, through which since 2019 Fondazione Brescia Musei has been transforming the "departures," linked to loan requests, into "arrivals" of guest artworks. The works featured in this new edition (occupying positions 16 and 17 in the registry of this initiative) are Noli me tangere by Ludovico Mazzolino and La Nuda by Giacomo Grosso. With this new event, the model - which over the years has allowed for the creation of unprecedented dialogues between the Permanent Collection and works by Diego Velázquez, Giacomo Ceruti, Lorenzo Lotto, to name a few - is enriched with a significant novelty, articulating for the first time in two exhibition venues: the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo and Palazzo Tosio, a once sumptuous residence where Count Paolo Tosio, with his wife Paola Bergonzi, collected the original nucleus of the Brescia civic art gallery, now the seat of the Ateneo di Scienze, Lettere e Arti of Brescia.

In this case, Room VI of the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo - dedicated to the paintings of Moretto, Savoldo, and Lotto - and Palazzo Tosio see the temporary absence of two works (Adoration of the Shepherds by Lorenzo Lotto, from 1530, and Torquato Tasso reading his poem at the court of Ferrara by Francesco Podesti, from 1842) which will be included along with others also departing from Brescia to the exhibition "Wealth. Perennial Dilemma" (June 6 - November 9, 2025), curated by Alessio Geretti and hosted at the Casa delle Esposizioni in Illegio (UD). The occasion turns into an opportunity to present to the public two works from the civic collections usually kept in storage, now exceptionally accessible until November 16.

At the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, the precious Noli me tangere by Ludovico Mazzolino is exhibited, already included last year in the exhibition "The Sixteenth Century in Ferrara. Mazzolino, Ortolano, Garofalo, Dosso" held at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and Michele Danieli. The comparison between the works of Moretto and Savoldo that usually populate Room VI of the Pinacoteca and the work of the Ferrarese artist - a painter known for his ability to combine diverse inspirations with an original, sometimes eccentric approach, but always supported by a clear pictorial refinement - reflects the great liveliness and variety of the artistic scene in the Po Valley in the first half of the 16th century, where the common Venetian matrix dissolves into the multiplicity of territorial and individual characteristics.