ART COLLECTION

From today until May 17th, the Diocesan Museum Carlo Maria Martini in collaboration with the Vatican Museums offers the exhibition “Gaugin, Matisse, Chagall. The Passion in French art from the Vatican Museums “. The exhibition brings together a precious nucleus of paintings, sculptures, engravings, from the Contemporary Art Collection of the Pope’s Museums. These are works by French artists, such as Paul Gauguin, Auguste Rodin, Maurice Denis, Georges Rouault, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and others focused on the themes “around” the Passion of Christ, in a path that allows to shed light on different aspects of the delicate relationship between modernity and tradition in art and in the Church, between the 19th and 20th centuries. According to Pope Montini, art is a place where expressing doubts, seeking truth, beauty and meaning, communicating knowledge and experimenting, without any distinction or foreclosure with respect to the faith and culture to which we belong.