Documentary 2017

Saturnino

A documentary dedicated to Saturnino Gatti, painter, sculptor and plasticist.

A documentary dedicated to Saturnino Gatti, a painter, sculptor and plasticist born in Pizzoli 1463 and died in L’Aquila in 1518, one of the most important protagonists of L’Aquila’s artistic Renaissance.

His production, permeated with Florentine suggestions, reveals his youthful training in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, protected by the Medici family and frequented by Leonardo, Perugino and Ghirlandaio.

Accompanied by its most distinguished scholar, Professor Ferdinando Bologna, Saturnino is a journey to the places of central Italian Renaissance art to discover its works and events.