Asti nel Seicento

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The exhibition takes the form of a dossier exhibition, a collaboration between the Palace Bunches of Asti and University of Turin. The situation of the artistic heritage of Asti '600 reflects the articulated judicial aspect of the Province of Asti, created in 1935, uniting territories in the seventeenth century were administratively part of the State of Milan, in Spain, the ancient duchy of Monferrato as well as the Savoy Piedmont. It is a stratification that is reflected in the figurative reality, which appears rich and heterogeneous arrivals "external". In addition to local artists have submitted works from outside the region (in the case of Pietro Paolini in Lucca, or Andrea Pozzo), closely related to particular figures of clients. A particular attention is given, in the exhibition and in the catalog, the works of Lombardy and Genoa, surveyed during the research, and closely related to the events of political and religious history, as well as reasons for commercial traffic, which made the territory of Province of Asti one of the crossroads crucial for understanding the interference between Piedmont, Liguria and Lombardy.