The exhibition evokes the fascination exerted by the large foreign artists from our monuments, our landscapes and our traditions through a series of exemplary works, including masterpieces of painting, sculpture and photography, lent by major museums Italian and international.
The exhibition does not just tell how Italy has been lived through the works of foreign players, but also highlights its role as "teacher of the art". Lucas Cranach, Anton Van Dyck, Claude Lorrain, Valentin de Boulogne, Rubens, Gaspar Van Wittel, Angelica Kauffmann and Johann Zoffany are some of the artists who have drawn from our cultural heritage.
There are also the works of some of the artists who have been inspired to colleagues who have crossed the borders Italian: Botticelli, Correggio, Michelangelo, Titian, Pompeo Batoni and Canova.
Then, in the section dedicated to the '900 and the contemporary, you can admire the works of Auguste Rodin, Adré Derain, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Henry Moore, Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, Christ, Anselm Kiefer, Marina Abramovic and many others who have had to deal with Italy and its cultural tradition.
Not to mention that the show is held in the prestigious setting of the neoclassical Villa Reale in Monza, a comeback after years of restoration and elected in place of institutional representation at events related to the Expo.
The exhibition of the exhibition is divided into five sections:
I. The Sixteenth
II. The Myth of Italy in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
III. From Neoclassicism to Symbolism
IV. The twentieth century and the millennium
