At Tiziana Sassoli’s Fondantico Gallery, as usual in “spring,” another important exhibition will be held from May 17 to June 17, 2008, focusing on the figure of Sisto Badalocchi (Parma 1851/85- post, 1621), and other pupils and collaborators of Annibale Carracci in Rome.

Presented by the Parma painter is a very rare oil on panel of oval shape (114×152 cm), depicting “Alexander and Taxiles,” a work of fundamental importance for the development of the artist’s activity.

The painting, a recent find, can be traced back to a prestigious series of Stories of Alexander, a pictorial cycle of eleven oval paintings on panel commissioned around 1615 at the behest of Cardinal Alessandro Peretti Montaldo (nephew of Pope Sixtus V and deputy chancellor of the Holy Roman Church) for his own Roman palace of Termini on the Esquiline Hill.