“20th-Century Italian Sacred Art from the Vatican Museums” presents a selection of paintings and sculptures from the Vatican’s Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition centres on Christ as the Man of Sorrows and the Paschal Mystery of the Passion, Death and Resurrection, interpreted through a wide range of artistic languages throughout the 20th century. It shows how sacred art also changes as ways of representing suffering, humanity and transcendence evolve.
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The exhibition marks the first collaboration with the Vatican Museums, bringing together works from a selection that normally forms part of their modern and contemporary art collections.
The selection brings together some of the most representative figures in 20th-century Italian sacred art, including Carlo Carrà, Renato Guttuso, Marino Marini, Giacomo Manzù and Pericle Fazzini, alongside lesser-known artists.
