It’s easy to conjure up a work by Giorgio Morandi. Close your eyes and a nature morte immediately takes shape: a lopsided pitcher, perhaps, executed in fluffy paint strokes and a muted color palette. Before landing on his distinctive style, which borrowed heavily from Cézanne, Morandi studied from 1907 to 1913 at Bologna’s Accademia di Belle Arti, where he learned how to etch by studying Rembrandt in books. He entered the army in 1915, but was soon discharged due to a breakdown. Morandi abandoned lofty painting principles and instead focused on work that was pure in form. In this exhibition, Morandi paintings and works on paper spanning his six-decade long career, loaned by the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, are on view. —Elena Clavarino