(ANSA) - Rome, September 23 - A show exploring the
iconographic repertoire that fed the imagination of Renaissance
poet Ludovico Ariosto on the 500th anniversary of the
publication of his epic poem Orlando Furioso opens tomorrow in
Ferrara.
Ariosto (1474-1533) is best known for the epic romance
first published in 1516, a tale of the loves and adventures of
Count Orlando as he battles the Saracens in defence of King
Charlemagne.
The exhibition of 90 canvases, drawings and other works of
art by the likes of Botticelli, Pisanello, Raphael, and Paolo
Uccello opens September 24 and runs through January 8 at the
National Gallery of Ferrara, housed in the city's Palazzo dei
Diamanti.
The show also includes a tapestry on loan from the Victoria
and Albert Museum in London, a battle drawing by Leonardo da
Vinci on loan from the Royal Collection at Windsor Palace,
Andrea Mantegna's Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of
Virtue (1502), on loan from the Louvre, and Titian's Bacchanal
of the Andrians (c. 1523-26), on loan from the Prado Museum in
Madrid.
Ariosto's imagination in 90 masterpieces
Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and more, on show in Ferrara