Location: Palazzo Pallavicini - Via San Felice 24, Bologna

Dates: 9 October 2025 – 6 January 2026

Contact details: Mobile: 3313471504 – email: info@palazzopallavicini.com

Opening hours Thursday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 20:00 (last admission at 19:00)

Special openings

• 1 and 2 November 2025 (from 10:00 to 20:00, last admission at 19:00)
• 8, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 December 2025 (from 10:00 to 20:00, last admission at 19:00)
• 31 December 2025 (from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., last admission at 4 p.m.)
• 1 January 2026 (from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., last admission at 7 p.m.)
• 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 January 2026 (from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., last admission at 7 p.m.)

Scheduled closures for the entire day

• From 22 to 25 December 2025

Ticket

• Full price: €16
• Reduced price: €14 (from 14 to 18 years of age, over 65 with ID, students under 26 with ID, military personnel with ID, tour guides with ID, trainee journalists and freelance journalists with ID who are registered with the Order, carers accompanying persons with disabilities, ICOM members, Touring Club Italiano, AICS Bologna with card, State Property employees with badge, Palazzo Pallavicini mailing list subscribers, holders of tickets for the other exhibition currently on display at Palazzo Pallavicini)
• Bologna Welcome Card, Bologna Congress and Card Cultura: €10
• Family ticket available only at the ticket office: 1 or 2 adults + children (aged 6 to 14) - adult: €12 reduced - child: €10 reduced (free ticket for children under 5)
• University Thursday: €12 (for all students presenting their student card)
• Visitors with disabilities in possession of a disability certificate: €12 (car permits are not accepted)
• Free: children under the age of 6, holders of a Disability Card issued by INPS (Italian National Social Security Institute) valid as of the Official Gazette of 23 December 2021
• Groups: €12 (min. 10 people – max. 25 people) *
• Schools: €6 (2 teachers free for each class, H/104 free) * *For groups and schools, it is mandatory to book the date and time at segreteria@palazzopallavicini.com

Services

• Animals are only allowed in carriers, or you can book a dog-sitting service via the website www.bauadvisor.it
• The coat rack is unattended, so please do not leave any valuables there
• Smoking and consuming food and drinks inside the exhibition is strictly prohibited

Important notices: Access for people who are unable to walk or wheelchair users (non-electric) is only possible via the Jolly Ramp D3000010 tracked stairlift provided by TGR, with a maximum load of 140 kg (weight calculated between the person and the wheelchair, the total weight will be the responsibility of the visitor) for two flights of stairs with a total of 38 steps. The complete technical data sheet can be downloaded and viewed at the following link: https://tgr.it/prodotto/jolly-ramp-montascale-mobile-a-cingoli/

A journey through Italian and European painting The exhibition is organised into seven thematic sections, ranging from religious painting to portraiture, including allegorical and mythological subjects. Visitors to this itinerary will be able to admire works by masters such as Giandomenico Tiepolo, Correggio, Bernardino Luini, Giampietrino, Moretto, Pompeo Batoni and Andrea Del Sarto, as well as a selection of paintings that testify to the popularity of Leonardo's models in the Po Valley and the influence of the Tuscan, Venetian and Flemish schools.   The works, usually housed in the evocative Visconti Castle in Pavia, have been selected to illustrate the evolution of taste and artistic trends that swept through Lombardy and Italy between the Renaissance and Neoclassicism. The paintings on display, many of which are rarely seen outside Pavia, reflect the encyclopaedic nature of the collection commissioned by Marquis Luigi Malaspina di Sannazzaro, an Enlightenment figure and patron of the arts, who founded the historical core of the Pinacoteca.   Luigi Malaspina di Sannazzaro: a leading figure in Enlightenment collecting in the Po Valley Founder of the collection that now bears his name, Marquis Luigi Malaspina di Sannazzaro (Pavia 1754–Milan 1835) was a central figure in Lombard culture and collecting during the Enlightenment. A man of profound erudition, he turned his palace in Pavia into a lively “Stabilimento di Belle Arti” (Fine Arts Establishment), which was inaugurated in 1838 as the city's first public museum. Malaspina was not only a collector: he was also an architect and designer of the new layout of Palazzo Malaspina, renovated between 1794 and 1835, and creator of the Malaspina Gardens, part of his urban project open to the community even on public holidays. He published essays on the principles of beauty in architecture and painting and, in addition to paintings, collected a vast collection of glyptic impressions, intended for public use during his lifetime and now part of the minor arts sections of the Civic Museums of Pavia.   A dialogue of gazes and visions Through a fascinating dialogue between faces – portraits that capture the identity of the subjects – and visions – sacred, allegorical and private devotional compositions – the exhibition takes the public on a journey between introspection and spirituality, beauty and power, history and memory.   Organisation and catalogue The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Pallavicini srl, with critical texts by the curators and in-depth analyses dedicated to the individual sections.