From November 22, 2025, to May 3, 2026, Turin hosts an extraordinary journey through the Europe of the seventeenth century, following in the footsteps of Orazio Gentileschi, one of the greatest masters of Italian painting.

"Orazio Gentileschi. A painter on a journey" is the unmissable exhibition organized by the Royal Museums of Turin and Arthemisia, presenting over 40 masterpieces from the most prestigious museums in the world, from the Louvre to the Prado to the Vatican Pinacoteca - some of which have never been exhibited in Italy before.

An exhibition curated by Annamaria Bava and Gelsomina Spione, which reveals the talent of an artist celebrated by kings and queens, a friend of Caravaggio and Van Dyck, capable of transforming light into poetry.

The exhibition brings together loans from ecclesiastical buildings, Italian and international public and private collections, including the Louvre in Paris, the Prado in Madrid, the Vatican Pinacoteca, the Civic Museum of Ancient Art - Palazzo Madama in Turin, Palazzo Spinola and the Museums of Strada Nuova in Genoa, the Civic Museum in Novara, the Municipal Art Collections in Bologna, the Galleria Spada and Palazzo Barberini in Rome, the Uffizi Galleries, the National Gallery of Marche in Urbino and the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia, allowing a journey through the entire stylistic evolution of Gentileschi, who starts as a late mannerist painter, influenced by the formal elegance of the sixteenth century, then moves on to a Caravaggesque naturalism of intense luminous truth, and finally arrives at a painting of refined elegance and vibrant chromatics, always characterized by a personal touch.

The theme of the journey is the red thread of the exhibition path that puts the painter in dialogue with various figurative contexts, with the artists encountered - from Giovanni Baglione to Guido Reni, Simon Vouet, Antoon van Dyck, his brother Aurelio, and his daughter Artemisia - with the figures of the patrons, and with the demands of the market.

Orazio Gentileschi lives and works in an extraordinarily fertile period and ambitiously moves through the most relevant Italian artistic centers and among the major European courts - from Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy to the Queen of France Maria de' Medici, from Charles I of England to Philip IV of Spain - in search of protection and prestige.

Days and hours of the exhibition:
OPENING HOURS
From Thursday to Tuesday 9:30 am - 7:30 pm
(ticket office closes one hour before)
Closed on Wednesday

Special openings
Monday, December 8, 9:30 am - 7:30 pm
Wednesday, December 24, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, December 25, 12:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Wednesday, December 31, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, January 1, 12:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Tuesday, January 6, 9:30 am - 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 5, 9:30 am - 7:30 pm
Monday, April 6, 9:30 am - 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 25, 9:30 am - 7:30 pm
Friday, May 1, 9:30 am - 7:30 pm
(ticket office closes one hour before)