Rome, three major exhibitions at Palazzo Bonaparte for Jubilee: Botero, Munch and Ancient Egypt

On the occasion of the Jubilee, Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome is preparing to inaugurate a major exhibition season for 2025. It will start in September 2024 with a retrospective devoted to Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who died last September. Paintings, watercolors, sculptures and some previously unseen works will be on display; medium and large works characterized by his typical artistic language. There will be no shortage of versions of masterpieces from art history, such as Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Raphael’s La Fornarina, Piero della Francesca’s Double Portrait of the Dukes of Urbino. Also, themes such as the circus and bullfighting, the latter interpreted through the filter of the Hispanic tradition much felt in art, from Goya to Picasso. Finally, one room will be devoted to Botero’s most recent technical experimentation, which, from 2019, he painted with watercolors on canvas: almost diaphanous works, the result of a delicate, perhaps senile, approach to familiar themes of all time.

Two major exhibitions dedicated to Edvard Munch andAncient Egypt will then arrive in Rome in 2025. A monographic exhibition dedicated to Munch, with one hundred works from the Munch Museum in Oslo, is scheduled from February to June. The artist will be celebrated with a major retrospective, under the patronage of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Rome, in collaboration with the Munch Museum in Oslo. Curated by Patricia G. Berman, one of the world’s leading Munch scholars, the exhibition will tell the whole story of the artist’s universe, his human journey and production, and will do so through one hundred works, including one of the lithographic versions kept in Oslo of The Scream (1895), but also The Death of Marat (1907), Starry Night (1922-1924), The Girls on the Bridge (1927), Melancholy (1900-1901) and Dance on the Beach (1904).

Starting in October, the rooms of Palazzo Bonaparte will instead be invaded byAncient Egypt, with an exhibition produced and organized in collaboration with the Egyptian Museum of Turin. The exhibition aims to recount a journey of discovery of Ancient Egypt and its extraordinary civilization that lasted more than 3,000 years. Ever since Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in Luxor in the Valley of the Kings in the 1920s, a real passion for the history of this people and for the splendid and in some respectsfascinating and mysterious artifacts that have come to light has broken out worldwide. Through numerous archaeological finds, from papyri to votive artifacts, grave goods unearthed in some of the most important tombs, large sarcophagi, objects of worship and everyday life, and impressive sculptures of the deities worshipped and the kings of the various dynasties, this exhibition will be an opportunity to take a journey through that extraordinary civilization.

Rome, three major exhibitions at Palazzo Bonaparte for Jubilee: Botero, Munch and Ancient Egypt

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