Vatican Museums

This room is almost entirely devoted to Marc Chagall, and offers an introduction to his iconographic universe. Born in Russia to a Jewish family, part of the ferment in Paris at the beginning of the 1900s and attentive to avant-garde research, Chagall did not join any specific movement, but showed very early a rare capacity to harmonise profound reflection on current themes, historical events and personal dramas, with a light irony that became the distinctive mark of his dreamlike language. The room brings together a small and exemplary body of the artist’s works of a religious nature, alongside a delicate Madonna and child by the Japanese Tsuguharu Fujita and two works by Auguste Chabaud.