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