INTRODUCTION

The exhibition displays the Virgin and Child before an Archway by Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg 1471-1528) and some of his famous engravings from Luigi Magnani’s collection, which is kept by the Magnani-Rocca foundation in the Mamiano villa of Traversetolo, also known as “Villa dei capolavori” (Villa of Maserpieces), near Parma.
It is around this amazing core of works by the master from Nuremberg, that the exhibition beats a path dedicated to two specific topics of great relevance to Western art: motherhood and melancholy, the latter being continuously associated, since the Renaissance, with creative and artistic thinkers. A narrative that showcases antique, modern and contemporary works as its speakers.