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Since 1992 Fondantico has been dealing in Italian and mostly Bolognese Old Masters, presenting exhibitions featuring painters such as Guido Reni, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Michele Desubleo, Annibale Carracci, Guido Cagnacci, Sisto Badalocchi, Lucio Massari, Lavinia Fontana, and Mauro, Ubaldo and Gaetano Gandolfi.
The Gallery’s remarkable attention to the quality, provenance and condition of the paintings, as well as the scholarly catalogues published in collaboration with art historians, reflect its privileged relationship with Italian and international museums; its reputation is founded on the rigorous standards by which the works are selected.
Fondantico holds regular Old Master Paintings exhibitions with catalogues that stimulate art historical discussion and bring new light to connoisseurship. Tiziana Sassoli is usually present at the major art events, such as TEFAF and the Florence and Rome Biennale fairs, thus maintaining continuous contact with institutions and collectors. Fondantico has sold paintings to US and European museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Ireland, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento and recently, the Borghese Gallery in Rome, whose acquisition from Fondantico of Guido Reni’s Country Dance, formerly owned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, has restored the picture to its original collection.
In Via de’ Pepoli 6/e, in the alluring mediaeval street of Bologna’s historic centre that connects Via Castiglione with the splendid Piazza Santo Stefano, stands Casa Pepoli Bentivoglio, now home to the Fondantico Gallery for over a decade. After passing through a portal surmounted by a large coat of arms recalling the union of the Bentivoglio and Pepoli families, one enters a space of over 350 square metres, arranged on three floors, where the Gallery has expanded its activity to modern and contemporary art, with solo and group exhibitions of significant and emerging artists. Tiziana Sassoli’s son Edoardo Battistini deals mainly in nineteenth and twentieth century Bolognese painting, holding exhibitions with richly-illustrated catalogues.
An event that has greatly enthralled the art world was the discovery of the important oval panel by Sisto Badalocchi depicting Alexander and Taxiles. Between 1615 and 1616, Cardinal Alessandro Peretti Montalto had a series of eleven ovals depicting episodes from the story of Alexander the Great made for his Roman palace in Termini on the Esquiline, where Termini station now stands. Among the painters commissioned, mostly students of Annibale Carracci, the name of Sisto Badalocchi stood out and our painting, thought to be lost and known only through a copy, is part of the noble commission.