Maddalena and the Cross. Sublime love, Exhibition Santa Caterina Museum, Treviso

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Maddalena and the Cross. Sublime love

From 5 April to 13 July 2025

Santa Caterina Museum

Piazzetta Botter, 1, Treviso

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“Mary Magdalene and the Cross. Sublime Love”, announced by the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Treviso at Santa Caterina Museum from April 5 to July 13, curated by the Civic Museums, is an exhibition that addresses universal themes such as passion, suffering, devotion, redemption, love. And it does so by drawing on the interpretations that great artists over the centuries have been able to develop around the figures of Christ and Mary Magdalene, exploring their extraordinary emotional potential.The exhibition does not limit itself to recounting the sacred but includes and transcends the gospel story to make it a universal experience, capable of touching deep chords of the human soul.The figures of Christ and Mary Magdalene thus become mirrors of the human condition, a crucible in which pain and hope, emotion and reflection merge. Each of the over one hundred works gathered in this extraordinary exhibition - including many masterpieces of art history - stimulates us to penetrate the deepest mysteries of our feelings and existence.In the twelve rooms for as many sections, we are led to undertake a double journey: first in artistic creation and in time, to follow the evolution that art has undergone in telling that Sublime Love. Alongside a second, parallel but more personal and intimate one: Mary Magdalene becomes an archetype of a universal spirituality that transcends belief. We are all called to identify with the path taken by the saint who becomes a model: from difficulty and fall, to conversion, to redemption. An example of spirituality for sure, but above all of hope, trust, and love.The rich exhibition will feature works spanning the centuries, from the 13th to the 20th century, confirming the fascination that the theme has always held in the figurative arts and proving the universality of the theme, capable of constantly renewing itself in the minds and spirits of artists throughout Europe.Among the masterpieces, we mention for example the Bolognese miniatures of the extraordinary “Bible of St. Paul”, up to the great Renaissance painting, with Bellini, Jan Polack, Titian, Paolo Veronese, Jacopo Bassano, Giampietrino, Palma il Giovane, Guercino to arrive at Bernardo Strozzi, Ludovico Carracci, Carlo Saraceni, Domenico Tintoretto, Sebastiano Ricci, Mattia Bortoloni, Rutilio Manetti, Antonio Canova, Gaetano Previati, Mosè Bianchi, to reach Alberto Martini, who is honored on his Centenary.

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