BIG Verbania Space "BIG Emotion"

Don't miss

Don't stop at the showcases! Inside the gallery are other rooms, not visible from the outside, that like precious caskets hide additional masterpieces of pictorial, sculptural, and textile art. In fact, one can see paintings by great painters such as Pieter Mulier known as Cavalier Tempesta, Francesco Tironi, Iacopo Chimenti da Empoli, Paolo De Matteis, Jacques Blanchard, Luca Giordano, Francesco Nenci, Eugenio Gignous, Gino Severini, Errò and Roberto Ciaccio.

A bit of history

Spazio BIG Verbania is the headquarters of Amalago - Association for the artistic and cultural promotion of Lake Maggiore, founded by Massimo Ciaccio together with Elena Croci, professor at the Brera Academy, and Giancarlo Lacchin, professor at the State University of Milan. The Association has as its purpose and vision the enhancement of the territory that lies between Piedmont, Lombardy and Switzerland and wants to be an artistic and cultural reference for anyone interested in Lake Maggiore, its natural beauty, art and culture, in any way expressed.

Curiosities

Welcoming you at the entrance is a monumental canvas depicting The Killing of Niobe's Children: the painting has recently been attributed to the painter Francesco Nenci, called "the Foscolo of painting," active between Neoclassicism and Romanticism. The subject depicted is taken from Greek mythology: Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, had married Amphion, King of Thebes, by whom she had 14 children. Proud of her numerous offspring of divine origin (Tantalus was the son of Zeus), Niobe considered herself superior to Latona, mother of Apollo and Artemis, so much so that she prevented their worship in her city. Latona's sons then killed all of Niobe's children to defend their mother's honor. The canvas shows the most excitable moment of the myth, in which Apollo and Artemis have already killed many of Niobe's sons and she, in the center, desperately tries to protect two maidens; her husband, on the right side, wracked with grief, takes his own life by stabbing himself with a sword.