Featuring more than 60 works from Italian and foreign museums and major private collections, Timeless wonder. Painting on stone in Rome between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. tells, in addition to theambition to eternity Of the works of art, the critical debate Of an era sensitive to the competition between painting and sculpture, and also of primordial materials, extracted from the mines, of their adventurous journey to artists’ workshops and up to their place in the collections, which become new venues for these debates, in palaces and villas increasingly rich in furnishings, magnets for the production of luxury goods.
Borghese Gallery dedicates from October 25, 2022 to January 29, 2023 the exhibition Timeless wonder. Painting on stone in Rome between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries., edited by Francesca Cappelletti and Patrizia Cavazzini.
Taken from: Borghese Gallery
