In Turin the myth of beauty from Botticelli to Mucha – Turin

Torino – How has the image of beauty of antiquity changed? In what ways did the artists represent it for centuries? The exhibition will tell the frame of the Royal Museums of Turin From Botticelli to Mucha. Beauty, nature, temptationPlanned from April 17 to July 27, 2025: a journey through more than 100 works from important Italian collections, ranging from classical sculpture to Renaissance painting and to the art of the twentieth century, from the veners to the aristocratic portrait to the images of advertising. Non -published dialogues will emphasize unexpected relationships between the works, according to the threads of the myth, the female, the charm of the old and the natural world.

Sandro Botticelli, Antonio Canova, Alphonse Mucha are some of the well -known names that we will meet along the path that is edited by Annamaria Bava in the Chiablese rooms, to which a special guest is added: the Face of girl By Leonardo da Vinci, a precious signature design that was probably made as a study for the angel of the Virgo of the rocksTo be admired in the middle of the new Leonardo space of the real museums in a mirror artist.

Leonardo da Vinci, Face of Girl (study for the Angel of the Virgin of the Rocks), around 1478-1485

Absolute jewel of the exhibition will Venus from Botticelli from the Gualino collection, between the icons of the Sabauda Gallery, which will confront a special part with the Venus By Lorenzo di Credi, on loan from the Uffizi. The exhibition presents the results of diagnostic research that was recently conducted on the masterpiece of Botticelli, with which we can know more about the technology of the Renaissance master and about the second thoughts he met while painting this famous Canvas. And where Venus is, the three graces cannot be missed, old personifications of beauty and harmony represented by precious designs of Canova, nor the myth of Elena, archetype of fatal beauty, to be rediscovered in tapestries, paintings and sculptures.

Royal Manufacture of Sèvres, Louis Simon Bozot, Modeler (attributed), the judgment of the Paride, around 1780. Biscuit, 41x54x31 cm I at the concession of the MIC – Royal Museums, Palazzo Reale

The attraction for the old and miracle of nature meets in the images of the Renaissance: a intertwined that will be seen by classic sculptures and grotesque decorations, holy and profane paintings, but also rare albums of flowers, fish and birds of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. And then Muzen, Sibille, Edelvrouw, Mythological Heroines, Icons of History, to the portraits of ladies and princesses of the Sabauda Court, from Margherita di Savoia to the Countess of Castiglione, Seductingly secret agent on behalf of Cavour. The last landing of the journey is the art of the early twentieth century, when, during the dawn of modern, the beauty also changes off the skin: a metamorphosis that must be discovered in the Women of Alphonse Mucha, in the paintings of Giovanni Grosso and Carlo Stratta, in the sculptures of the purchase of the purchase of the purchase of the purchase of the purchase hours, with a special purchase hours, with a purchase of the purchase of the purchase hours, with a purchase hours, with a special purchase hours of the purchase hours of the purchase hours of the purchase hours of the purchase hours of the purchase hours of the purchase hours of the lonelekeardoardoardo. In Babylon (Semiramide) By Cesare Saccaggi.

Cesare Saccaggi, in Babylon (Semiramide), around 1905. Oil on canvas, 240×140 cm I at the concession of the MIC – Royal Museums, Sabauda Gallery