Image: Museo delle Porcellane, Florence
The Uffizi will host a presentation of Luca Brignoli’s volume ‘La collezione Camozzi Vertova’ on Tuesday 20 October at 10:30 a.m. in the Auditorium Paolucci degli Uffizi. The event concerns a book devoted to the history of the Camozzi Vertova family’s art collection.
The collection is preserved at the Camozzi Vertova castle in Costa di Mezzate, near Bergamo. The volume therefore recounts the history of an art collection associated with the Camozzi Vertova family and preserved at the castle in Costa di Mezzate near Bergamo.
Among the collection’s most important paintings is Lorenzo Lotto’s ‘Madonna with Child and Saints John the Baptist and Catherine of Alexandria’. The collection also includes portraits by Moroni, Ceresa and Fra’ Galgario.
Fabrizio Paolucci will moderate the presentation, which will include contributions from Elisa Acanfora of the University of Basilicata and Luca Brignoli, identified as a historian and art critic.
