Galerie Canesso

Itinéraire Site Web

Galerie Canesso Maurizio Canesso founded his gallery in Paris in 1994. The gallery is largely dedicated to works cre

The sixteenth-century Bolognese painter Pietro Faccini is the subject of the upcoming exhibition from 16 to 23 October a...
13/10/2026

The sixteenth-century Bolognese painter Pietro Faccini is the subject of the upcoming exhibition from 16 to 23 October at our Paris gallery, curated in collaboration with Nicolas Schwed.

The exhibition pays tribute to the memory of the tireless scholar Mario Di Giampaolo (1941–2008), among the greatest connoisseurs of sixteenth-century Italian drawings, who probably saw a reflection of himself in the eccentric, contradictory personality of Pietro Faccini.

Di Giampaolo’s first article on the artist appeared in 1979, and starting in the 1990s he pursued a project – which remained unfinished – to write a catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work, while amassing an extensive photographic archive.

Discovered by Donatella Cingottini in the scholar’s Florence apartment after his passing, these photographs served as the starting point for a monograph on the painter edited by Cingottini and Nicolas Schwed and published by Editori Paparo in 2026.

🔸 Pietro Faccini (1575-1602)
16 - 23 October 2026
Mon - Fri, 10 am - 6 pm
26, rue Laffitte, Paris 9e

🔹 The Return of the Prodigal Son
Oil on canvas
74.5 x 56.5 cm
Paris, Galerie Canesso

🔹 An Angel with a Pair of Shields Supported by Two Putti
Pen and grey ink, grey and brown wash on trapezoidal paper, with a French-style mount of c. 1800
290 x 420 mm
Private collection

Nicolas Schwed /

Behind the paintings hanging on the walls of an art fair lies something far beyond nails and hooks: there’s the care, co...
04/10/2026

Behind the paintings hanging on the walls of an art fair lies something far beyond nails and hooks: there’s the care, commitment, and research of individuals with a profound understanding of art and its market.

Working alongside Maurizio himself, Véronique, Greta, Eleonora, Ginevra and Tommaso are all driven by the passion, expertise, and vision that have always been the hallmarks of the Galerie Canesso, and – one fair after another – they generate the moment when a single work of art meets the gaze of someone who recognizes its true value.

We’re grateful to all the visitors who stopped by our stand – even if only for a brief moment – during this edition of the Florence Biennial.

03/10/2026

Up close, beauty takes on a whole new appearance. It has the power to move us, much like the artworks featured at this year’s Florence Biennial ⚜️

Here’s our selection for this edition of the fair:

• Corso di Buono, Painted Cross, late thirteenth century

• Allegretto Nuzi, Saint Simon the Apostle, c. 1360

• Marco di Paolo Veneziano, Virgin and Child, c. 1370-1380

• Andrea di Bartolo di Fredi, Triptych with the Madonna of Humility, c. 1423-1425

• Ludovico Mazzolino, Lamentation over the Dead Christ, 1511–1512

• Giuseppe Bonito, The Painter’s Studio, 1738–1740

An extraordinary late thirteenth-century painted cross – first published in 1988 by Luciano Bellosi – is currently on di...
30/09/2026

An extraordinary late thirteenth-century painted cross – first published in 1988 by Luciano Bellosi – is currently on display in our booth at the Florence Biennial.

Corso di Buono constructs the narrative of the Passion around the majestic, moving figure of Christ, using some unusual iconographic elements, especially the depiction of the sleeping Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist, crushed by the weight of sorrow. Their presence is highly unusual for this period, echoing a far more archaic depiction typical of Romanesque crucifixes.

Also atypical for a painted cross are the figures of the Prophets flanking the hands of Christ, and the three diminutive Angels collecting the blood that flows from his wounds into large chalices.

This is an intense work that gives us a chance to lend continued life to a rare and powerful image of medieval devotion to the Passion of Christ.

♦️BIAF BIAF Italian Art
Florence, Italy
26th September-4th October 2026
Stand 4

🔹Corso di Buono
(Florence, documented in 1284 and 1295)
Painted Cross
Tempera on wood, 158,5 x 151,5 cm


An extraordinary late thirteenth-century painted cross – first published in 1988 by Luciano Bellosi – is currently on di...
30/09/2026

An extraordinary late thirteenth-century painted cross – first published in 1988 by Luciano Bellosi – is currently on display in our booth at the Florence Biennial.

Corso di Buono constructs the narrative of the Passion around the majestic, moving figure of Christ, using some unusual iconographic elements, especially the depiction of the sleeping Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist, crushed by the weight of sorrow. Their presence is highly unusual for this period, echoing a far more archaic depiction typical of Romanesque crucifixes.

Also atypical for a painted cross are the figures of the Prophets flanking the hands of Christ, and the three diminutive Angels collecting the blood that flows from his wounds into large chalices.

This is an intense work that gives us a chance to lend continued life to a rare and powerful image of medieval devotion to the Passion of Christ.

♦️BIAF
Florence, Italy
26th September-4th October 2026
Stand 4

🔹Corso di Buono
(Florence, documented in 1284 and 1295)
Painted Cross
Tempera on wood, 158,5 x 151,5 cm


Let’s step away for a moment from the hustle and bustle of the Biennial and enter the more intimate realm of a painter’s...
29/09/2026

Let’s step away for a moment from the hustle and bustle of the Biennial and enter the more intimate realm of a painter’s workshop, just as a new painting is taking shape.

Among the works we’ve selected for this year is The Painter’s Studio by Giuseppe Bonito, a canvas created between 1738 and 1740, a decade before Bonito was appointed court painter to the Bourbons.

We see an artist at work before his easel, elegant and entirely aware of being observed, while a small cast of characters gathers around him. Some are totally engrossed and seemingly suspended in the instant of the image’s creation, while others are distracted, like the child in the foreground, who offers a piece of bread to a dog.

The patron, dressed in grey and gold, appears in profile, in conversation with another figure. Alert and focused, he looks at the canvas, where a figure of Hercules – an emblem of his own power and prestige – is gradually taking form.

The painter’s gaze seeks us out and meets ours, and – for a moment – we join the guests in his studio and witness his artistry.

♦️BIAF BIAF Italian Art
Florence, Italy
26th September-4th October
2026
Booth 4

🔹Giuseppe Bonito
(Castellammare di Stabia, 1707 – Naples, 1789)
The Painter’s Studio, 1738/1740
Oil on canvas, 168 x 235 cm

Let’s step away for a moment from the hustle and bustle of the Biennial and enter the more intimate realm of a painter’s...
29/09/2026

Let’s step away for a moment from the hustle and bustle of the Biennial and enter the more intimate realm of a painter’s workshop, just as a new painting is taking shape.

Among the works we’ve selected for this year is The Painter’s Studio by Giuseppe Bonito, a canvas created between 1738 and 1740, a decade before Bonito was appointed court painter to the Bourbons.

We see an artist at work before his easel, elegant and entirely aware of being observed, while a small cast of characters gathers around him. Some are totally engrossed and seemingly suspended in the instant of the image’s creation, while others are distracted, like the child in the foreground, who offers a piece of bread to a dog.

The patron, dressed in grey and gold, appears in profile, in conversation with another figure. Alert and focused, he looks at the canvas, where a figure of Hercules – an emblem of his own power and prestige – is gradually taking form.

The painter’s gaze seeks us out and meets ours, and – for a moment – we join the guests in his studio and witness his artistry.

♦️BIAF
Florence, Italy
26th September-4th October
2026
Booth 4

🔹Giuseppe Bonito
(Castellammare di Stabia, 1707 – Naples, 1789)
The Painter’s Studio, 1738/1740
Oil on canvas, 168 x 235 cm

This Saint Simon the Apostle by Allegretto Nuzi, a native of Fabriano, is a splendid work that once formed part of a gra...
28/09/2026

This Saint Simon the Apostle by Allegretto Nuzi, a native of Fabriano, is a splendid work that once formed part of a grand altarpiece.

Crafted in tempera and gold in about 1360, the painting belonged to a large Augustinian polyptych. Its central panel was the Virgin and Child with Angels now at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.

The figure of the saint, which perfectly exemplifies the artist's style – and which was hitherto unknown to scholars – is intact, and speaks to the viewer with a striking, immediate presence. The Apostle look outwards with a quiet monumentality and contemplative mood, his head tilted, and his long, elegant hands holding a weighty book of scriptures, rendered with skilful foreshortening.

The vivid, expressive power of his gestures and the gentleness of his gaze reveal the artist’s complex visual culture: the legacy of Maso di Banco is combined with the freer, more naturalistic sensibility of Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti – the masters whose work Allegretto encountered during his formative years in Siena and Florence.

Even centuries later, this Saint Simon stands as a precious fragment that succeeds in conveying the grandeur of the lost ensemble with startling intensity.

♦️BIAF BIAF Italian Art
Florence, Italy
26th September-4th October
2026
Booth 4

🔹Allegretto Nuzi
(Fabriano, documented from 1346, died 1373)
Saint Simon the Apostle
Tempera and gold on wood
23,8 x 17,9 cm


Adresse

26 Rue Laffitte
Paris
75009

Heures d'ouverture

Lundi 10:00 - 18:00
Mardi 10:00 - 18:00
Mercredi 10:00 - 18:00
Jeudi 10:00 - 18:00
Vendredi 10:00 - 18:00

Site Web

Notifications

Soyez le premier à savoir et laissez-nous vous envoyer un courriel lorsque Galerie Canesso publie des nouvelles et des promotions. Votre adresse e-mail ne sera pas utilisée à d'autres fins, et vous pouvez vous désabonner à tout moment.

Raccourcis

Partager