From March 29 to June 29, 2025, the journey is enriched with the exhibition From Chaos to Cosmos. Metamorphosis at Palazzo Te curated by Claudia Cieri Via, conceived in dialogue with the frescoes of the palace to rediscover the meaning and importance of this place as a total work of art.

Through a renewed visit path enhanced by a selection of Renaissance masterpieces from the collections of the Louvre Museum, the Albertina in Vienna, the Prado Museum, the Borghese Gallery, and the Uffizi, the exhibition brings out the countless references that can arise from a more in-depth reading of the many themes that the Palace displays and preserves.

The exhibition path opens a dialogue between the works of Giulio Romano and other Masters such as Tintoretto, Correggio, Jacopo Zucchi, Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, and the contemporary artist Giuseppe Penone.

The exhibition starts from the Chamber dedicated to the Latin poet, with the first section, Ovid's Fables, which relates Giulio Romano's frescoes to an important corpus of drawings preserved at the Louvre and the Albertina, which the artist created on the same themes, visible in the subsequent Chamber of Enterprises.

It then continues in the Chamber of the Sun and the Moon with The Cyclicity of Time, where, under the ceiling fresco with Apollo's chariot and the Moon, there is a copy of All the books of Ovid's Metamorphoses translated from literal to vulgar verse with its allegories in prose and history, an important editorial documentation by Niccolò Degli Agostini, a prestigious loan from the Central National Library. The volume was present in the Gonzaga library, and realistically Giulio Romano consulted it to start the Mantuan fresco cycle, as evidenced by details present in this version and not in the original Latin.

The Hall of the Horses, the largest in the Palace, hosts the section Virtue, Eros, and Power, where the engravings of the master Adamo Scultori Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion and Hercules and Antaeus, from the Central Institute for Graphics, interact with the monochrome frescoes of the room that inspired them. At the same time, Correggio's Danae from the Borghese Gallery, The Abduction of Ganymede and The Fable of Leda by Eugenio Cajés from the Prado evoke the cycle of Jupiter's Loves that Federico II Gonzaga had commissioned from Correggio on the occasion of Charles V's stay in Mantua, to narrate the amorous adventures of the father of the gods. Another masterpiece exhibited in the room is Minerva and Arachne by Tintoretto from the Uffizi.