Exhibition curated by Michele Di Monte

The exhibition, the result of an exchange with the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris, focuses on a small number of works of considerable quality and of great importance both from the point of view of art history and from that of the history of collecting and taste, including two masterpieces by Andrea Mantegna. The artist stayed in Rome from 1488 to 1490 invited by Pope Innocent VIII to decorate the chapel of the new Belvedere building. The paintings with the Stories of John the Baptist and the Childhood of Christ were lost during some eighteenth-century renovations. In the city there are no autograph works by Mantegna so the exhibition is a unique opportunity to admire some works by this extraordinary Master.