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5.6.2025 | Culture

Exhibition of Italian Baroque Artist Bernardo Strozzi in Beautiful Kadriorg Palace

Text Susanna Poikela,
Photos Art Museum of Estonia

Exhibition of Italian Baroque Artist Bernardo Strozzi in Beautiful Kadriorg PalaceBernardo Strozzi. “Viola da Gamba Player” (Barbara Strozzi?). C. 1638–1640. Oil. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

 

The beautiful Kadriorg Palace in the middle of Tallinn’s Kadriorg Park will host an international exhibition of the work of the Italian early Baroque master Bernardo Strozzi (1582–1644) this spring.

Strozzi was one of the most sought-after painters of his time in Genoa and Venice. The title of the exhibition, “Bernardo Strozzi: Beyond Caravaggio”, refers to the fact that Strozzi belonged to the generation of artists who worked in the era of the famous Caravaggio and followed the Caravaggio style, but at the same time highlights how the emphasis on one great name has unreasonably overshadowed many other masters.

 

Forty works of art from European museums and private collections are on display.

 

The exhibition offers a thorough overview of the work of this talented and versatile artist. It features 40 works of art from European museums and private collections. There are also masterpieces that have never been shown publicly before. Bernardo Strozzi’s art is permanently on display in the world’s most important art museums, and over the past twenty years his work has received increasing attention both from art historians and collectors. The exhibition will be open at the Kadriorg Art Museum until 6 July 2025.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Kadriorg Art Museum of the Art Museum of Estonia (Eesti Kunstimuuseum) in Kadriorg Palace. The anniversary will also be celebrated with the second international exhibition, “The Garden of Pleasures”, which starting 30 August will bring to the public art depicting nature and flowers from the Dutch collection of The Phoebus Foundation. To celebrate the anniversary, the museum will be open every day from May to September from 10:00 to 18:00, including on Mondays, and until 20:00 on Wednesdays.

 

Kadriorg Art Museum, Weizenbergi 37, Tallinn.

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