Palazzo dei Priori museum complex

Antonio Ligabue appears absolutely anomalous among twentieth-century painters. In his violence, in his animal expressiveness, he can only compete with Van Gogh, of whom he can be considered an Italian variant. Ligabue's dissociated mental state led him to isolation, significantly worsening his suffering. In this experience of pain, only one consolation, only one possibility of redemption, fully explored: art, which allows escape from the condition that continues to be considered an ...

Giuseppe Pende stands out in the panorama of the twentieth century for his original poetics and for his mastery of the true and plausible of still lifes, portraits, views of Puglia, the Marche and Zara and invented landscapes , often immersed in an atmosphere of dream. He painted what he loved most for eighty years, leaving behind a few months before his death the brushes that his father, an amateur painter and magistrate, put in his hands at the age of ...