Turin's Royal Museums gear up for a 2025 full of news and exhibitions

The year 2025 will bring news and exhibitions to the Royal Museums of Turin.

Between January and February in the two rooms located on the second floor of the Sabauda Gallery, Spazio Leonardo will be inaugurated, a new installation in which the nucleus of Leonardo da Vinci’s 13 drawings will be presented virtually, including his famous Self-Portrait as well as the Codex on the Flight of Birds, which, for conservation reasons, cannot be displayed continuously in the Royal Library vaults. The project includes information and multimedia apparatuses, including a touch screen that will give visitors the opportunity to browse through the entire Codex on Flight; in the center of the room, a box will instead be installed to house an air-conditioned display case where an original drawing can be displayed in rotation, as well as a screen on which to project a video to emphasize the importance of the core of Leonardo da Vinci’s works at the Royal Museums.

Between March and September 2025, the Sale Chiablese will host an exhibition that will offer, with an unprecedented slant, multiple dialogues between paintings and art objects from different periods and types, from the collections of the Royal Museums and other public and private collections.

From April 18 to July 13, 2025, the exhibition dedicated to the description of nature and the world between the end of the 14th century to the end of the 16th century, starting with Leonardo da Vinci’s studies, is scheduled at the Royal Library. Curated by Claudio Giorgione and Giuseppina Mussari, and realized in collaboration with the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, the exhibition will present a rich selection of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings from the Biblioteca Reale, in dialogue with the graphic and book heritage of important Italian and foreign museums and libraries, such as the Uffizi Gallery, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and the Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana in Florence, the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome and the Albertina in Vienna. Leonardo da Vinci’s work will be compared with that of earlier and later generations of humanists, architects, and engineers, in precious and sometimes unprecedented juxtapositions with the works of Giovannino de’ Grassi, Cristoforo De’ Predis, Andrea Mantegna, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Albrecht Dürer, Jacopo Ligozzi and many others.

Instead, two exhibitions are scheduled for the fall: one dedicated to Orazio Gentileschi and the other to Guido Reni, two of the leading figures of the Italian seventeenth century. The first, entitled Orazio Gentileschi. A Painter on the Road, and curated by Annamaria Bava and Gelsomina Spione, will be set up in the Sale Chiablese and will focus on the famous painter with particular attention to the theme of travel, in its dual valence as a path of formation and a quest for affirmation. Each section will be organized following the stages of the artist’s travels, placing him in dialogue with the figurative contexts and artists he encountered from time to time, with the figures of the patrons and with the needs of the market. The exhibition aims to highlight one of the absolute masterpieces of the Galleria Sabauda: the large altarpiece with the Annunciation created by Orazio Gentileschi in 1623 for the Duke of Savoy and considered by all critics to be one of the absolute pinnacles of his production.

The Spazio Scoperte, on the second floor of the Galleria Sabauda, will instead host, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Guido Reni’s birth, an exhibition dedicated to him, paying homage to one of the most influential painters of the 17th century, celebrated author of altarpieces, frescoes and easel paintings for patrons of the highest prestige, of whose cultured and aristocratic taste he was one of the greatest interpreters. The exhibition, curated by Annamaria Bava and Sofia Villano, aims to illustrate, through the holdings of the Royal Museums and some international loans, the appreciation of the Savoy court, from the birth of the ducal collections, for Bolognese classicist painting and in particular for the works of Guido Reni. His composed and luminous style, centered on the harmony of forms and the celebration of an ideal beauty inferred from the sculptural models of antiquity and the sublime art of the Renaissance masters, must have been particularly congenial to the quest for majesty and elegance in the design of the decoration and furnishings of the Savoy residences.

Between June and October, theRoyal Summer, the festival of music, theater and dance in the Roman theater and Royal Gardens, will also resume, this year under the banner of the Four Seasons in the arts and music to celebrate the reopening of the Levant Gardens.

Pictured: Orazio Gentileschi, Annunciation, detail (1623; oil on canvas; Turin, Musei Reali di Torino - Galleria Sabauda)

Turin's Royal Museums gear up for a 2025 full of news and exhibitions

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