Exhibitions ’11
WISDOM SHINES. Madonne of Abruzzo from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
This exhibit that take place in Rimini, curated by Lucia Arbace and a large scientific community (Allemandi catalogue), shows about twenty panels and wooden sculptures from the Abruzzo region, ... Read More
Ante gradus. When Certainty Becomes Creative. The Frescoes in the Pilgrim’s Hall at Santa Maria della Scala in Siena
A thousand years ago the adventure of one of the most prestigious and prolific works of charity in European history began: the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala [Saint ... Read More
Saint Charles Borromeo. The House Built on the Rock
Charles Borromeo (1538-1584) was one of the great masters who have shaped Christianity in modern times: together with other pioneers of a new way to relate the knowledge of ... Read More
“My Sister – Life”. Boris Pasternak
A few months before his death, subjected to a violent defamatory campaign because of his novel Doctor Zhivago, humiliated and excluded from the cultural life and daily under threat ... Read More
…And You Will Live Again. The Prophet Ezekiel, Crisis and Hope
We are in a situation of crisis at many levels, the economy, politics, and religion. On many sides, need is being expressed for a “new anthropology” in order to ... Read More
“Non sembiava imagine che tace [He did not seem a silent image]”. The Art of Reality in the Age of Dante
In the first “Cornice” of the Purgatory, Dante encounters a series of images carved in marble by the hand of God. Their most striking feature is that they are ... Read More
150 Years of Subsidiarity. The Forces that Change History Are the same as those that Change Man’s Heart
Benedict XVI Address to the members of the National Association of Italian Municipalities, March 12, 2011. “The multiplicity of people and situations is not in contradiction with the national ... Read More
Through the Eyes of the Apostles. A Presence that Overwhelms Life
The exhibition reconstructs the journey that some Jewish inhabitants of Capernaum made from the first encounter with Jesus of Nazareth to the point of acknowledging him with a faith ... Read More
“Cor ad Cor loquitur”. The certainty of Newman: conscience and reality
Taking up the challenge of Benedict XVI who, in his visit to Britain, indicated Newman as a figure to look at, above all, for his modernity, the exhibition relates ... Read More
Is the Atom really indivisible? Questions and Certainties in Science
What do we mean by reaching a “certainty” in the scientific field? In the paths of research, are there really results that become “points of no return”? Is certainty ... Read More
