Masterpieces from Rome's National Galleries of Ancient Art return home

by Redazione , published on 30/01/2019
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Some of the masterpieces that had been loaned for international exhibitions return to their locations in Rome's National Galleries of Ancient Art.

It is a season of returns that of Rome’s National Galleries of Ancient Art, Palazzo Barberini and Galleria Corsini: the intense loan campaign promoted by the museum’s management allowed during 2018 to establish relationships and cultural exchanges with museum institutions around the world. Now the masterpieces that have fascinated the general public in Tokyo, Houston and Paris will return home.

From the Pietro Paolo Rubens and the Birth of the Baroque exhibition held at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, two canvases by Rubens, St. Sebastian Healed by Angels and Head of an Old Man, will return to the Corsini Gallery.
Hans Holbein ’s Portrait of Henry VIII will return to Palazzo Barberini from the exhibition Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol, held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which will reacquire the two icons by the Straus Madonna Masters, loaned to the National Galleries of Ancient Art for the exhibition American Gothic.
Mantegna ’sEcce homo and other masterpieces on loan from the Musée Jacquemart-André are about to return to Paris; from the major exhibition Caravage à Rome, amis & ennemis, Jusepe Ribera ’s Negation of Peter will return to the Corsini Gallery and Caravaggio’s Saint Francis in Meditation in addition to Judith and Holofernes will return to the Palazzo Barberini.

All masterpieces will be remounted and will be on view again starting Feb. 4, 2019.

For info: www.barberinicorsini.org

Image: Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Henry VIII (1540; oil on panel, 88.5 x 74.5 cm; Rome, Palazzo Barberini)

Masterpieces from Rome's National Galleries of Ancient Art return home
Masterpieces from Rome's National Galleries of Ancient Art return home


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