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CREMONA AND THE RENAISSANCE: the new worldview
The charm of the Renaissance art of Cremona resides in the churches of the city, where some important local painters
left their everlasting mark with frescos and paintings of rare beauty, the Mannerist culture and signs of sixteenthcentury classicism.
1° Day – CREMONA
Arrival in the evening directly at the Hotel and booked accommodation.
Hours 18:00 meeting at Trecchi Palace, one of the most significant Renaissance local palaces, which for its
magnificence hosted Kings, Emperors, Cardinals, illustrious men and leaders among them were Louis XII of France,
Carlo V of Spain and Garibaldi. After the visit of the building, will be dinner at a typical restaurant. Overnight.
2° Day – CREMONA
Breakfast at the Hotel. Full day dedicated to the visit of the city: the Renaissance in Cremona was important for rich
mansions and extensive pictorial cycles (flourished at Cremona in then an eminent School of painting, with evidence
everywhere in town). Some private citizens, buildings built in the ' 500, we bear witness to the consolidation of
fortune tied to land ownership and to trade. One of the most conspicuous was that of the Affaitati, merchants and
bankers who in 1561 began the construction of the Building, (now home to the Ala Ponzone Civic Museum and
Stradivarian Museum), which are the most active local architects of time: Dattaro, known by the nickname Pizzafuoco.
The city tour will begin with the picture gallery of the Civic Museum with its numerous salt offers a comprehensive
panorama of the local painting of the 11th century and is the ideal complement to the visit to the churches and
palaces of the city. After visiting the picture gallery, we will know the most significant Renaissance buildings of
Berardino De Lera: the Church of s. Vincenzo, Raimondi-Repellini Palace and Raimondi Eliseo Palace designed and
refined of the humanist.
The building is now home of the Institute of philology and Musical Paleography and the International School of Violin
Making (the city is famous in the world for its tradition of violinmaking).The visit continues with the fine Renaissance
church of Santa Margherita, designed by Giulio Campi that helped his brother Antonio, he also painted decoration of
the Interior. With the architecture and sculpture goes hand-in-hand painting history: Brembo Bonifacio, the most
quoted of the Ducal Court in his forty years of fruitful activity, we can admire the Church of s. Agostino two
remarkable fresco portraits of Bianca Maria and Francesco Sforza. You will arrive in the most beautiful square in the
world: the Town Hall Square, which is overlooked by important buildings such as the Torrazzo, the Cathedral, the
Baptistery, the City Hall and the Loggia dei Militi. These spectacular buildings, although previous sources, during the
Renaissance have undergone major changes: the City Hall, powerful and austere facade was modified by Bernardino
de Lera; the Torrazzo with large astronomical clock (the mechanism is still the original one of 1583) with Renaissance
portico "Bertazzola" that later was extended to almost the entire facade of the Cathedral. the impressive decorative
complex of the Cathedral by Boccaccio Boccaccino before and Altobello Melone and Gian Francesco Bembo then, to
finally arrive at camps, family of artists universally known in the history of cremonese painting. Cremona was rightly
criticised at the time as a small italian Antwerp. And Flemish influences manifest themselves also in Sofonisba
Anguissola, the local painter praised by Michelangelo and Annibal Caro, sent by Philip II in Madrid, admired by Van
Dyck.
Leaving the square, we go to Fodri Palace, one of the most significant examples of stately architecture of Renaissance
Lombard style.
Then leave the city center and approximately 2 km you will arrive to the Church of St. Sigismund, one of the
architectural jewels of the Renaissance in Lombardy and also one of the most representative in Northern Italy. Inside,
valuable works of major artists of the local Mannerist, fields brothers Bernardino Campi (same name but not relative),
Camillo Snipe, Bernardino Gatti.
Dinner in a restaurant. Overnight.
3° Day – CREMONA
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning at the disposal. End of our services.
For information and reservations:
Guindani Viaggi
Lufthansa City Center
Corso Garibaldi 88/90, 26100 Cremona (Italy)
Ph. +39 0372 462030 – fax +39 0372 462040
[email protected] – www.guindaniviaggi.it