A true conservator hates exhibitions, but “Renaissance in Ferrara” is an exception

I hate exhibitions, a conservator is annoyed by change and exhibitions only change the places of paintings. “I don’t like desire or movement,” says the greatest living conservative intellectual, Michel Houellebecq. But”Renaissance in Ferrara. Ercole de’ Roberti and Lorenzo Costa”, precisely in Ferrara and also at Palazzo dei Diamanti, more than a change it is a restoration (nice reactionary concept) as it brings back home the Bentivoglio Diptych (1473-1474), wrested from Italy in 1871, during the reign of a Savoy interested in the Risorgimento and not in the Renaissance. So I resolve to change places, in the name of the lesser evil: Parma-Ferrara are 140 kilometers of highway, Parma-Washington (today the Diptych belongs to the American National Gallery) 6,900 kilometers, little highway, almost all of the Atlantic.