500 Years Of Italian Art Show Opens At Compton Verney

More than 40 of Glasgow’s greatest Italian paintings, including works by Renaissance masters Giovanni Bellini and Sandro Botticelli are on display at the Compton Verney art gallery in Warwickshire. The Scottish city of Glasgow is home to the finest and most comprehensive civic collection of Italian paintings in the UK. Called ‘Bellini, Botticelli, Titian: 500 Years of Italian Art’, the show at Compton Verney in England allows visitors the opportunity to see the works. The exhibition includes landscapes, portraits and devotional works created between 1400 and 1900 by artists such as Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Titian, Salvator Rosa and Francesco Guardi. Some of the works in the exhibition have had to undergo extensive restoration before they can be put on display. Dr Ellen McAdam, the head of Glasgow Museums, said: “Our conservation team have been working for almost three years, to ensure that these paintings – some of which have not been on display for more than a century – are back to looking their best.” Compton Verney is redisplaying and reinterpreting its own important collection of Neapolitan works from 1600 to 1800 to coincide with the show. Highlights from the collection include religious and mythological scenes by Luce Giordano and Francesco Solimena, and stunning depictions of Vesuvius and views from Naples by Pierre-Jacques Volaire and Gaspare Vanvitelli. ‘Bellini, Botticelli, Titian: 500 Years of Italian Art’ runs until 23 June 2013. The show will then tour to New York, California and Oklahoma in the United States, and to Canada until 2015.