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The mural paintings by Nicolò dell’Abate for Count Giulio Boiardo, between 1540 and 1543, it was believed all taken with the technique of "removal" and the "cutting" between the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half century. Only in 2003, with the discovery of a series of picturesque landscapes, in Rocca di Scandiano was revealed important evidence of the intervention of this hero of a European fashion. Artworks Hidden for centuries beneath layers of dull, in the lunettes of the old Hall of Paradise, by which time, between late 1847 and early 1848, were removed "pull" the mural paintings of Nicolò, transferred collectibles such as paintings in the Gallery of Duke Francis V of Austria Este, inside the Palazzo Ducale in Modena, and now preserved in the Estense Gallery, together with those taken "a solid" in the late eighteenth century by Duke Francesco III d’Este largely from Camerino Aeneid. In addition to exposing all the pictorial and decorative from this historic building, the exhibition gives an account of the restorations performed on tracks recently discovered painting, as well as other architectural still ongoing, and not fail to stress the centrality of the intervention Scandiano of Nicolò through a section on literary history inspired by the epic themes of "Orlando in Love" and fortune sixteenth century poem, a music section, with the exhibition of ancient musical instruments in relation to musical depictions in paintings of Nicolò dell’Abate, a section on interventions for conversion of the building, with exposure of plants, maps and plans, and finally the section on luck of the nineteenth century murals Scandiano of Nicolò dell’Abate, well documented by the writings of Giambattista Venturi and their translations engraving.

 

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