Curated by Andrea Zamboni

Quodlibet studio, 2022

With texts by: Bruno Adorni, Walter Angonese, Nicola Di Battista, Tommaso Fantini, Maria Luisa Laddago, José Ignacio Linazasoro, Massimo Magnani, Andrea Zamboni

Photoghaps by Kai-Uwe Schulte-Bunert

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The Cloisters of Saint Peter in Reggio Emilia

Andrea Zamboni 

The monumental building is structured around two cloisters, the oldest of which dates to the years of its founding in the second decade of the sixteenth century, and bears witness to a very lively period in monastic and Benedictine architecture. We find therein extraordinary evidence not only of a change in scale between the two cloisters, but also the passage from the Renaissance architecture that is extremely balanced of the Small Cloister, to the Late Renaissance and Mannerist architecture of the larger one, on which work was begun in 1541 and was mostly completed between 1580 and 1623. The complex was the subject of manifold events that over the course of the centuries transformed it, starting in the late eighteenth century with the dissolution by ducal decree of its function as a convent, its physical separation from the church, and its reuse for the Civil Court. […]