{"id":5617,"date":"2025-12-08T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parcoarcheologico.cortonamaec.org\/senza-categoria\/signorelli-500\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:30:37","slug":"signorelli-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cortonamaec.org\/en\/temporary-exhibitions\/signorelli-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Signorelli 500"},"content":{"rendered":"

Master Luca of Cortona, Painter of Light and Poetry<\/h2><\/div>

On the five-hundredth anniversary of the death of Luca Signorelli (1450\u20131523), Cortona pays tribute to its most illustrious citizen with a major exhibition that restores full prominence to one of the leading figures of the Italian Renaissance. A painter of extraordinary expressive power and a bold innovator of pictorial language, Signorelli was highly esteemed by Vasari and proved to be a fundamental point of reference for artists such as Raphael and Michelangelo, playing a decisive role in the development of art between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.<\/p>\n

Hosted at Palazzo Casali, home of the MAEC \u2013 Museo dell\u2019Accademia Etrusca e della Citt\u00e0 di Cortona, the exhibition traces the entire artistic career of the Master through a carefully curated selection of works of exceptional quality, on loan from prestigious Italian and international museums and collections. The exhibition highlights the narrative strength, powerful draftsmanship, iconographic originality and remarkable chromatic intensity that define Signorelli\u2019s unmistakable artistic language.<\/p>\n

The exhibition also engages in dialogue with the works by Luca Signorelli held in the MAEC\u2019s permanent collection: the celebrated tondo, the Adoration of the Shepherds, and the two wooden panels. These masterpieces bear witness to the artist\u2019s enduring bond with his native city and can be admired by visitors at any time, beyond the duration of the temporary exhibition.<\/p>\n

Alongside important restorations and significant new scholarly insights, the exhibition forms part of a broader project of territorial enhancement, engaging in dialogue with Signorelli-themed itineraries in the city and across the Tuscan-Umbrian area. A unique opportunity to rediscover, in his native city, an artist of \u201cperegrine intellect and spirit,\u201d capable of uniting formal rigor with profound visual poetry.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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