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THE ART OF THE POPES:

FROM PERUGINO TO BAROCCI

From 6 March to 31 August 2025

National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo

Lungotevere Castello, 50, Rome

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THE ART OF THE POPES. From Perugino to Barocci, conceived by the European Center for Tourism and Culture, chaired by Giuseppe Lepore, organized in collaboration with Castel Sant'Angelo, directed by Massimo Osanna, and with the patronage of the Dicastery for the Evangelization Jubilee 2025 chaired by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, is the exhibition that Castel Sant'Angelo offers to the public from March 6 to August 31, on the occasion of the Jubilee year 2025. The exhibition aims to be the story of a city that dreams of being holy. The great artists and the commitment of the Popes have made Rome not only a heritage of incomparable splendor but also that idea of a city built on the Christian desire to exalt beauty, memory, the civilization of tradition, dignity, and the universalistic ideal of a man redeemed from pain. The exhibition is above all a thematic experience. Outside the chronological rigor, it explores the evangelical themes: childhood, maternity, joy and suffering, resurrection, mercy, hope. THE ART OF THE POPES narrates, work after work, the dreams and aspirations of the human being in recognizing in himself a divine seed. The Madonna with the Child, Saint Joseph and Saint Peter Martyr by Andrea del Sarto indicate the joy of being a family, as does the pictorial exaltation of the work of Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, the Adoration of the Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Francis. For the visitor, the narrative aims to be a lived experience, that moment of reflection and serenity that only art, in its splendid wonder, can offer. Chapters of the exhibition are entrusted to the Adoration of the Shepherds by Luigi Crespi, the Annunciation by Carlo Maratti and, at the same time, to the dreams of Perugino, Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, the Cavalier d'Arpino, Pompeo Batoni, Giovanni Battista Salvi known as Sassoferrato, Anton Raphael Mengs, Battistello Caracciolo or the pink clouds of Federico Barocci. Historical incursions are multiple; many are the portraits of the popes; singular are the explorations of contemporary art dedicated to the sacred, such as the work of Bruno Ceccobelli, Giuseppe Salvatori, Luigi Stoisa and Giorgio Di Giorgio.

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tuesday	09:00 - 19:30	18:30
wednesday	09:00 - 19:30	18:30
thursday	09:00 - 19:30	18:30
friday	09:00 - 19:30	18:30
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sunday	09:00 - 19:30	18:30

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FROM PERUGINO TO BAROCCI

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