Jubilee, in Castel Sant’Angelo ‘the art of the popes’

The exhibition wants 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 the heritage with an incomparable splendor but also that idea of ​​the city built on the Christian desire to enhance beauty, memory, the civilization of tradition, dignity and universalistic ideal of a man redeemed by pain. The exhibition is above all a thematic experience. Outside the chronological rigor, the evangelical themes declines. Childhood, motherhood, joy and suffering, resurrection, mercy, hope through some of the great masters of painting. Andrea del Sarto, Perugino, Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, Cavalier d’Arpino, of Pompeo Batoni, Giovanni Battista Salvi called Il Sassoferrato, Anton Raphael Mengs, Battistello Caracciolo, Federico Barocci alongside Bruno Ceccobelli, Giuseppe Salvatori, Luigi Stoisa and of Giorgio Di Giorgio.

Cardinal Baldisseri, from 15 September 2020 Secretary General Emeritus of the Synod of Bishops, spoke at the press conference to present the exhibition, remembering that it is “an important exhibition. In a historical period in which the Geo -Political plan is being reviewed There is still something of the world that distinguishes us, culture and art, the main aspect, a fundamental in which our country excels and Castel Sant’Angelo, where the exhibition was set up, the city of Rome, in particular, are places of history and spirituality, the capital remember is the center of Catholicism “.

“We celebrate an extraordinary year, the year of the Jubilee – explained the general manager of the MIC museums, Massimo Osanna, alongside Giorgio Simeoni, president of the special Jubilee 2025 Commission of the Lazio Region – we wish to our museums can turn into places of Meeting, dialogue, comparison also in the face of diversity, apparently irreconcilable. 90% is still kept in deposits).

Many national institutes of the Ministry of Culture collaborated in the exhibition, such as the National Galleries of Antica-Palazzo Barberini and Galleria Corsini, the National Gallery of Umbria, the National Gallery of the Marche region and the Royal Museums of Turin-Galleria Sabauda, ​​in addition to ‘National Academy of San Luca and to some municipal institutions such as the Museum of the Diocesan Civic City of Acquapendente.

The deposits and rare works of great artists have been privileged of the heritage of those loans but not only, in the idea that a strength of the exhibition is also the ‘return’ to the visitor of an artistic world as vast as, for some Aspects, little known. Aspect supported by Mario Turetta, head of the department for the cultural activities of the Mic, present at the press conference to present the exhibition for which “there is no recovery that is not enhanced by a historical cultural imagination that exists and which however is still to be redesigned , making it emerge from deposits “.