Travel Pick: Art and Archaeology in Italy
Rembrandt and the Masterpieces of European Graphic Works in the Collections of Buonconsiglio Castle

In 1923, following the wishes of his wife Giulia Turco who died in 1912, Raffaello Lazzari donated a series of works, among which an important collection of 'artistic prints', to the municipality of Trento.

Consisting of just over a thousand sheets, the Lazzari Turco Menz collection now kept at the Castello del Buonconsiglio, can be considered one of the more notable private collection of prints to be found in our area due to the number and quality of the etchings.

With this temporary exhibit, the museum presents to the public a significant part of this vast collection, centred on the print work by Rembrandt.

The proposed expository route presents the greatness of the artist not only through his own etchings, but also in comparison to other Flemish, Dutch and Italian masters who were working during those same years, to artists that interpreted in print Rembrandt’s paintings, and to others that copied his prints, even on request by refined collectors.