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Jesus. His Body and Face in Art

1st April – 1st August 2010. Extended until 5 September

Curated by Msgr. Timothy Verdon
Scientific committee: Michele Bacci, Msgr. Giuseppe Ghiberti, Silvia Ghisotti, Andrea Gianni, Andrea Longhi, Lucetta Scaraffia
Scientific Secretariat: Donatella Zanardo
Set-up: Massimo Venegoni

The exhibition is sponsored and organised by “La Venaria Reale” Cultural Exploitation Consortium under the patronage of the Commission for the Exposition of the Holy Shroud, in cooperation with the Turin Archdiocese and Associazione Sant’Anselmo - Imago Veritatis.

On the occasion of the Exposition of the Holy Shroud in Turin, an exhibition will be held at La Venaria Reale to investigate Christ’s physical dimension in Western art. The display includes paintings and sculptures from the early Christian Age to Baroque. The exhibition celebrates this important religious event, providing a vast cultural context for the Exposition.
Among the works on display are several masterpieces from leading museums, churches and collections in Italy and in Europe. The visiting itinerary is organised with the aim to suggest the breadth of the Christian concept of “the body of Christ” as well as its functional role in the religious rite. More than 150 works will be on display, including masterpieces by Andrea Mantegna, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Bellini, Antonio del Pollaiolo, Correggio, Titian, Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto, Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Guercino, Donatello, Rubens and Michelangelo with the magnificent wooden crucifix from Florence.

Where

Juvarra’s Stables at the Reggia di Venaria (Turin)

When

From 1st April to 1st August 2010

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