Robilant+Voena are pleased to present the exhibition From Taddeo Gaddi to Lucio Fontana on view at their St. Moritz gallery from 7 December 2016 to 10 January 2017. Robilant+Voena is one of the premier international galleries to redefine Old Masters by placing them in constant dialogue with modern art. The exhibition is a tribute to Roberto Longhi, the art historian whom, through the publication of the text From Cimabue to Morandi, draws a line of continuity in the Italian painting through the centuries. From the on set of Gothic painting, represented by Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1300–Florence–1366), Giotto’s most famous pupil, to the fine cuts of Lucio Fontana (Rosario de Santa Fé 1899–1968 Comabbio), the show retraces the steps of painting in Italy. The exhibition brings together 25 masterpieces, in constant dialogue between the sacred, such as the work Madonna and Child by Maestro della Lamentazione di Scandicci (Florence, active first quarter of the 16th century) and the profane, through the painting Portrait of Betty Wertheimer (1902) by Giovanni Boldini; between figurative, through the Portrait of Giovanni Lanfranco (c.1640) by Justus Sustermans, and the abstract with Untitled (1963) by Enrico Castellani; between the North represented by the work Portrait of a gentleman by the Venetian painter Palma il Giovane (1548–Venice–1628) and the South, with the Neapolitan artist Gaspare Traversi (Naples 1722–Rome 1770) and his work Cardplayers.
