"Magnificat"

The Marian theme is not unfamiliar to the town of Pontremoli, first and foremost due to its connection with Our Lady of the People remembered every year on July 2. 

From May 24, 2024 to January 6, 2025, the theme will be expanded with the “Magnificat” exhibition inside the Hall of Mayors of the Municipality of three works from the Banco PBM collection (Madonna with Child by Domenico Morone, Madonna with Child, St. Joseph and St. Giovannino by Bernardo Castello and Madonna with Child, St. Joseph and St. Giovannino by Jacopo Negretti) and a painting from the Uffizi Galleries of Florence (Madonna with Child and St. Giovannino by Jacopo del Sellaio).

The collection is then completed with the Madonna Adoring the Child, a 15th-century fresco found inside the Municipal Palace and later restored by Angelo and Tiziano Triani. The importance of this fresco lies mainly in the fact that there are very few, if any, examples of 15th-century frescoes left in Pontremoli and its surroundings.

These works fit into the framework of a Pontremoli that is, as mentioned, not without its Marian theme, and in fact the exhibition continues freely in two of the town's many churches: the Madonna with Child by Agostino di Duccio, inside the church of St. Francesco, a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture that decorates part of the third altar on the left as you enter the church; and the Adoration of the Magi by Luca Cambiaso in the church of the Santissima Annunziata, just outside the historic center.