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Fabriano,
a city of blacksmiths, painters and master paper manufacturers.
Although Gentile’s artistic career developed far from the city he was born in, the three masterpieces created for Fabriano (the Altar-piece preserved in Berlin, the Valleromita Polyptych and the processional standard now shared by the Getty Museum and the Magnani Rocca Foundation) bear witness to his profound bond with the city that ever since the 13th Century experienced a fecund economic and cultural season, which resulted in its becoming the European capital for paper production for over two centuries.
A visit to Fabriano is the exhibition’s ideal continuation, discovering the artistic and monumental testimonies of a city preserving in its churches and palaces important works of art from the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods and that still boasts an important medieval urban fabric, with a toponymy that still reminds one of the dislocation of the four districts of the arts and the crafts that formed the city’s economic and cultural framework in the course of the centuries.
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