LUOGHI / GALLERIA DEGLI SPECCHI

The Sala or Galleria degli Specchi is located in the oldest part of Palazzo Ducale called Corte Vecchia. Originally, the hall was built in the form of a loggia, opening onto the cour d’honneur, but by 1611 it was closed and housed the most important paintings of the Gonzaga’s collection.

The gallery had the largest pictorial decoration in the palace, datable to around 1618 and celebrates sciences and the arts, with allegorical figures drawn from Cesare Ripa’s Iconology. The Parnassus was painted together with the portraits of well known poets (at least Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Ariosto and Tasso are recognized) and Apollo and the Muses and the Allegory of the Liberal Arts in the two lunettes at the two ends of the hall.

On the lunettes on the long internal wall and in the two extreme parts of the vault, one after the other, there are images of the Virtues. In 1779 the walls were renovated with gilded stucco and mirrors as it still is today.

Quatuor Hermès - Fauré

May 31st 2023 – 8.15 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Bietti, QuartettOCMantova - Scuola sonora

June 1st 2023 – 9.00 am and 10.30 am
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Trio Michelangeli - Brahms

June 1st 2023 – 12.30
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Roberto Noferini, Grazia Serradimigni, Laura Riccardi, Giacomo Grava, Denis Zardi - Šostakóvič

June 1st 2023 – 2.15 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Viola Consort OCM - Bowen, Pedraglio, Mozart

June 1st 2023 – 6.15 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Alexandra Soumm, Giovanni Gnocchi, Alexander Lonquich - Ravel

June 1st 2023 – 9.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Quartetto Klimt - Mendelssohn-Bartoldy

June 2nd 2023 – 11.30 am
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Francesco Petri, Alfredo Zamarra, Giovanni Bietti - Mozart

June 2nd 2023 – 2.15 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Michele Torresetti, Andrea Mascetti, Clemens Gordon, Giacomo Grava, Alessandro Deljavan - Fauré

June 2nd 2023 – 6.15 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Dora Schwarzberg, Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, Martha Argerich - Schumann

June 2nd 2023 – 7.15 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Anush Nikogosyan, Gregorio Buti, Roberto Prosseda, Enrico Pompili - Mendelssohn

June 2nd 2023 – 9.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Jennifer Stumm, Herbert Schuch - Brahms

June 3rd 2023 – 11.30 am
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Barnabás Kelemen, Katalin Kokas - Bartók

June 3rd 2023 – 2.15 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Anush Nikogosyan, Alexandra Soumm, Ensemble MidtVest - Prokofiev, Mozart

June 3rd 2023 – 6.15 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Suyeon Kang, Nathan Amaral, Jennifer Stumm, Aline Santier, Giovanni Gnocchi, Bartholomew LaFollette - Čajkovskij

June 3rd 2023 – 8.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Quartetto Felix - Mahler, Turina

June 4th 2023 – 11.30 am
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi

Quartetto Indaco - Brahms

June 4th 2023 – 5.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi