MART showcases Antonello da Messina

(By Denis Greenan).

(ANSA) – Rovereto, October 9 – One of northern Italy’s top museums, the MART in Rovereto near Trento, is showcasing Sicilian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina in what it calls its “most significant” exhibition of the year.

The October 5-January 14 show on the still-mysterious 15th-century Sicilian artist credited with bringing oil painting to Venice has been organised by the MART in conjunction with Sicily’s regional government and leading Italian art publishing house Electa. “This is the museum’s most important exhibition of 2013, not only for the exceptional nature of the works displayed, thanks to international loans granted for the occasion, but also for the groundbreaking chronological breadth of the comparisons offered,” said the MART, which is based in Italian contemporary great Fortunato Depero’s birthplace. The exhibition, curated by Ferdinando Bologna and Federico De Melis with the assistance of Maria Cal