GALERIE CANESSO
GALERIE CANESSO
Maurizio Canesso has been immersed in the international art market for forty years. He opened his first gallery in Paris in 1994, and specializes in Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings, and in foreign artists who were active in whole or in part in Italy.
From the very start, his quest for excellence has been guided by the discovery, re-evaluation, and promotion of masterpieces. Entirely committed to his clients, Maurizio Canesso has the expertise and exacting savoir-faire which have enabled him to create flourishing relationships and gain the trust of private collectors and curators in major French and foreign museums (including the Musée du Louvre and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne). The gallery’s paintings are also much in demand for loans to international museum exhibitions.
Research published in the gallery’s scholarly catalogues, during prominent art fairs (TEFAF, Biennale des Antiquaires) or significant annual exhibitions in Paris – sometimes in collaboration with prestigious Italian museums – has helped to establish the solid reputation of the Galerie Canesso over the years.
2021 saw the opening of new premises in Milan close to the Brera Gallery, in the former greenhouse of the garden of Casa Valerio, one of the historic buildings of via Borgonuovo. Collectors and art lovers now have a new chance to see Maurizio Canesso’s latest acquisitions in the fields of both painting and sculpture.
From the very start, his quest for excellence has been guided by the discovery, re-evaluation, and promotion of masterpieces. Entirely committed to his clients, Maurizio Canesso has the expertise and exacting savoir-faire which have enabled him to create flourishing relationships and gain the trust of private collectors and curators in major French and foreign museums (including the Musée du Louvre and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne). The gallery’s paintings are also much in demand for loans to international museum exhibitions.
Research published in the gallery’s scholarly catalogues, during prominent art fairs (TEFAF, Biennale des Antiquaires) or significant annual exhibitions in Paris – sometimes in collaboration with prestigious Italian museums – has helped to establish the solid reputation of the Galerie Canesso over the years.
2021 saw the opening of new premises in Milan close to the Brera Gallery, in the former greenhouse of the garden of Casa Valerio, one of the historic buildings of via Borgonuovo. Collectors and art lovers now have a new chance to see Maurizio Canesso’s latest acquisitions in the fields of both painting and sculpture.
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Ghislandi dit "Fra' Galgario" Vittore
(1655 - 1743)
Portrait d'homme
Licinio Bernardino
(vers 1490 - vers 1550)
Jeune femme et son soupirant
Vigée Le Brun Elisabeth Louise
(1755 - 1842)
La marquise de Grollier ; née Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas
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Evaristo Baschenis (Bergamo, 1617-1677). The triumph of musical instruments in seventeenth-century painting
GALERIE CANESSO
From 06/10/2022 to 17/12/2022
A century since his rediscovery, and a few decades after the monographic exhibitions in Bergamo and New York (Accademia Carrara, 1996; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), Evaristo Baschenis (Bergamo, 1617-1677) is presented for the first time to the French public through a limited group of works (nine paintings) displaying his treatment of the subject of music, which brought him fame and fortune during his lifetime.
Baschenis invented an iconography that appealed to lovers of both art and music, ennobling the still life genre by raising precious instruments from the renowned workshops of Brescia, Cremona, Padua and Venice to the rank of absolute protagonists. His admiration for these wonderfully crafted pieces is conveyed by the absolute fidelity with which he portrays them “dal vero”, in a sophisticated musical play of shapes and colours, with splendid curtains framing scenes drawn from some personal theatrical stage. The painter-musician’s devotion to his subject also shines out in his signatures, applied with typically Baroque inventiveness to the instruments themselves, suggesting that he not only painted them but also built them, in imitation of his beloved luthiers Hartung, Gasparo da Salò, Tieffenbrucker and Sellas.
In the motionless magic of his compositions, and the slight veil of dust that covers some of his instruments, we feel a sense of expectation, like a metaphysical meditation on the world, experienced in the silence of suspended time.
Research for this exhibition has made it possible to discover that the score of one of the paintings (no. 4 in the catalogue) is that of a famous madrigal by the Flemish composer Roland de Lassus (Mons, 1532 – Munich, 1594), with lyrics from sonnet CLIX of the Canzoniere by Petrarch (1304-1374). This is a rare occurrence in the painting of the period, and indeed unique in Baschenis’s oeuvre; scholars have hitherto regarded his images of musical scores as based on fantasy. By the same token this discovery confirms Petrarch’s enduring fame in the seventeenth century.
This importance of this event – organized by the Canesso Gallery in conjunction with the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo and the Museo Teatrale alla Scala in Milan, each of which is lending a painting – is attested to by the high quality of the works on display, outstanding among which are the grand canvases of the Agliardi Triptych (c. 1665), Baschenis’ finest masterpiece. These pictures will be exhibited alongside a selection of ancient instruments including a Spinet by Graziado Antegnati (1523/1525 - c. 1590 ), a Roman Theorbo by Giovanni Tesler (active in Ancona between 1600 and 1650), a Guitar by Giorgio Sellas (c. 1585-1649), a Violin by Nicolò Amati (1596-1682), and a Mandolin attributed to Giacomo Ertel (c. 1646-1711).
The exhibition is under the generous patronage of the Italian Embassy in Paris.
Catalogue: Evaristo Baschenis (1617-1677). Le triomphe des instruments de musique dans la peinture du XVIIe siècle, ed. by Enrico De Pascale, Paris, Galerie Canesso, 2022, available in September.
30 YEARS. Thirty years of the Galerie Canesso. When the past looks to the future
GALERIE CANESSO
From 16/05/2024 to 28/06/2024