Exhibitions ’05

Rimini, Castel Sismondo, March 13 – September 4, 2005 A passion for history and beauty, an encounter with the Christian event, and the roots of a culture that laid the ... Read More

In 1311, Duccio di Buoninsegna completed the great altarpiece for the Cathedral of Siena: the entire population accompanied the Maestà in a festive procession from the painter’s workshop to the ... Read More

The exhibition aims to draw attention to a fundamental aspect of the world we live in: alongside certain events, there exists a vast realm of events whose occurrence is only ... Read More

The testimony of people who, through a new experience of life generated by the encounter with Christ, began to look at the needs of those they met in a completely ... Read More

People often have a simplified idea that “working” means producing objects, perhaps in a place called a factory, at set hours and under the authority of a boss.This view of ... Read More

Two artists living in Paris, Manfredi (Dino) Quartana and Marie Michèle Poncet, share at the Meeting in Rimini the adventure of their vocation as sculptors.The presence of their works—arranged in ... Read More

Why create an educational exhibition on the mosaics of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice?Surely, the artistic value of Venice’s mosaic masterpieces already provides an initial answer—one that would alone justify ... Read More

By Libertas Ecclesiae, we mean an ideal aspiration that begins with Constantine’s recognition in 313 AD of freedom of worship for Christians and all other religions, and then unfolds as ... Read More

Raphael is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance.The aim of this exhibition is to highlight how his art is the result of a particular conception of beauty—one marked ... Read More

“What wounds us is what is inescapable in life: the suffering found everywhere—the suffering of the helpless and the weak; the suffering of animals, of the voiceless creature… the fact ... Read More

The title, taken from one of Graham Greene’s most beautiful novels, introduces us to the author’s perspective—and to the disarmed gaze of his finest characters, who, by temperament or by ... Read More

The exhibition documents the remarkable—and little-known—epic of intellectual fervor and cultural creativity that unfolded in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.It offers a new reading of a period that laid ... Read More

Between the early 1920s and the Second World War, Europe witnessed a major wave of Russian emigration.Following the 1917 Revolution, over a million people made their way westward via various ... Read More

The 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birth, celebrated in 2006, has already set the global music world in motion to rediscover this extraordinary composer.Rediscovering Mozart today is certainly an ... Read More

In the summer of 1942 and in February 1943, a group of medical students at the University of Munich distributed leaflets signed “The White Rose,” urging resistance against Hitler and ... Read More

When the Bishop of Novara died, Saint Charles was only 46 years old, but already exhausted from his labors, fasting, and illness. Someone told him the news almost as a ... Read More