The “sacred” twentieth century in Milan
The “sacred” twentieth century in Milan

The “sacred” twentieth century in Milan

La Passione. Arte italiana del ‘900 dai Musei Vaticani. Da Manzù a Guttuso, da Casorati a Carrà

11 March – 5 June 2022
Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum, Milan

Forty works by the leading artists of the twentieth century in Italy, from the Vatican Museums Collection of Contemporary Art, interpret the Passion of Christ and document their continuing interest in the theme of the sacred. They are the works featured in the exhibition “La Passione. Arte italiana del ‘900 dai Musei Vaticani. Da Manzù a Guttuso, da Casorati a Carrà” (The Passion. Italian art of the 1900s from the Vatican Museums. From Manzù to Guttuso, from Casorati to Carrà), to be held in Milan at the Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum, from 11 March to 5 June 2022.

The exhibition, curated by Micol Forti, Curator of the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Pope’s Museums, and by Nadia Righi, Director of the Diocesan Museum of Milan, represents a new chapter in the collaboration between the two museums, which began in 2018 with the exhibition “Gaetano Previati 1852-1920. La Passione”, and continued in 2020 with “Gauguin, Matisse, Chagall. La Passione nell’arte francese dai Musei Vaticani”, which inaugurated the first of three exhibition events planned for the Easter period and grouped under the title Resurrections of the gaze.