Art, political power and great war events intertwined in the new large exhibition “Pavia 1525: The art in the Renaissance and the tapestries of the battle“,” which will animate the Civic Museums of the Visconteo Castle until January 11, 2026. The exhibition, organized for the Sixteenth -century of the Battle of PaviaReports in the spotlight when the Lombard City, a intersection between North Europe and Italy, became an artistic laboratory and the scene of one of the decisive battles for the European balance.
The travel schedule of the exhibition revolves around three fires: the CertosaGrandiose monastery wanted by the Visconti and transformed into a Cardinal of Lombard Art; The DuomoThe cathedral that the Pavesi “Wilde” Wilde from Santa Sofia “and who collected the great architects and ingenuity of time; And the city itself, Smidge of artists and craftsmen who made Pavia a reference point for the whole of Northern Italy in the fifteenth century. In the second half of the fifteenth century, the city, the heart of the Duchy of Milan, lives in fact a period of extraordinary cultural liveliness among the SFORZA. In his buildings and construction sites they meet Leonardo da Vincipresent to study the wooden model of the cathedral and design retention and machines, Donato Bramanteworking on the definition of the new Duomo factory, and masters such as the Perugicalcalled to work in the Certosa. 1525 marks the turning point: the Battle of Pavia between the troops of Francis I of France one Charles V from Habsburg He decides the fate of Lombardy and inaugurates a new political season in Europe.
Brussels produces on a design by Bernart von Orley. Play from the Battle of Pavia, Catca from Francis I of France (detail).
The exhibition – edited by Francesco Frangi, Pietro Cesare Marani, Mauro Natale, Laura Aldovini and, for the Tapestries section, Carmine Romano and Mario Epifani – brings work together with Leonardo, Ambrogio Bergognone, Bernardino Zenale, Perugino And other protagonists, with paintings, sculptures, miniator codes and art objects from Italian and international institutions (including Pinacoteca di Brera, Castello Sforzesco, Windsor Royal Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum). I am spectacular exposure heart Seven monumental tapestries of the Capodimonte Museum The battle depicted: substances between 1528 and 1531 on Bernard van Orley designs, they return exceptionally to Pavia after a complex restoration and American phases, and offer a visual narrative of surprising modernity.
The tapestries represent the wonderful story for images of an important moment in the history of Europe and for the fate of the city of Pavia. In 1524, the young King of France descended Francis to Italy at the head of an impressive army, determined to regain Milan. After months of siege, on February 24, 1525, the imperial troops of Carlo V bring a sensational defeat in the forest of the Visconteo Park. Francesco is being captured and led prisoner in Spain: the French hegemony in Lombardy Sunseta and Europe is entering a new phase, with Spain from Carlo V which is intended to dominate the peninsula for a long time.
Brussels produces on a design by Bernart von Orley. Papers from the Battle of Pavia (Detail)
Returning to the Castle of Visconteo, the visitor can not only admire the precious tapestries, but also the Polyptych by Ambrogio BergognoneExceptionally reconsidering centuries of dispersion, and the extraordinary Sottlycaphane Wooden Choir of the Church of San MarinoRestored for the occasion. Drawings, architectural models and paintings make it possible to rediscover the splendor of the Renaissance building sites, from the marble splendor of the Certosa to the construction site of the Duomo, where the ultrasound of Leonardo and Bramante’s intuitions still reflects.
Pavia 1525 is not only an exhibition: it is a journey to a city that was able to speak with the whole of Europe between art and politics and that in 1525 saw a page of history intended to change the fate of the continent forever.
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