The exhibition “Guglielmo Caccia 2025” in the set-up of the Civic Museum of Moncalvo and in the Hall of Honour of Palazzo Mazzetti in Asti celebrates the four hundredth anniversary of the death of a great leading personality of Piedmontese art, between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.

Moncalvo’s severe language is typical of the Counter-Reformation, but his religiosity is closer to rural realities, with Lombard Mannerist influences such as Antonio Campi and Bramante.

The works displayed at Mazzetti’s record a mature and culturally defined painter, as supported in particular by a large canvas depicting the Virgin, The Child and Saint George, owned by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Asti.

The art collection of the Foundation includes a precious nucleus of works by Guglielmo and Orsola Caccia, acquired in 1998.

The painting, published by Anna Maria Bava in the volume “Purchases and restorations 1992 – 2000” and edited in 2000 by the Foundation, is mentioned as «one of the most enchanting works by the painter from Monferrato, because of its refinement in the chromatic range, its inventive fantasy and its spontaneity of affections».

The exhibition also shows a recent acquisition of the Foundation, the Study for figures of little angels, whose cherubs are comparable to those existing in the selection albums used later by Orsola Caccia.

The set-up also includes Madonna with the Child and a Young Saint John from the civic collections in Asti, that is one of the most refined works by Moncalvo intended for private devotion. The same mood of intimacy and sweetness that one can perceive in this composition is also visible in The Holy Family from a private collection.

The unpublished Saint Joseph’s Workshop is by Guglielmo Caccia, in cooperation with his daughter Orsola; the work shows an unusual iconography in the choice of subjects, but perfectly reliable with the intimate spirit that characterizes the scene.

The altarpiece representing a Madonna with The Child, Saints Peter Martyr, Helen and Francis from Assisi is a work by Guglielmo’s, an atelier especially known for religious commissions.

Christ the Redeemer from the civic collections in Mazzetti’s testifies Orsola’s fidelity to her father’s models: the figure of Christ derives from The Blessing Saviour preserved in Sforza’s Castle in Milan, originally located in the Chapel of the Tribunal of Provision in the city where, around 1618, the painter also created The Praying Virgin, Saint Jerome and the Angel.