ROME EXHIBITIONS AT PALAZZO BRASCHI
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Running Exhibition from 29 November 2004 to 13 February 2005
"Papi in posa. Dal Rinascimento a Giovanni Paolo II"

On the occasion of the 26° anniversary of the election of Giovanni Paolo II as a pope. The exhibition "Papi in posa. Dal Rinascimento a Giovanni Paolo II" curated by Maria Elisa Tittoni, Francesco Petrucci and Francesco Buranelli, has been recently opened. The exhibition, set up at Palazzo Braschi, which is the Museo di Roma seat shows the Pope's faces who have reigned from 1500 up to now and it wants to explain the historical and cultural context of their period through the temporal and religious power. The most important works on display are the Portrait of Gregorio XV of Gian Lorenzo Bernini belonging to Museo Civico Medievale of Bologna, the Portrait of Urbano VIII of Pietro da Cortona belonging to Musei Capitolini, the painting of Papa Alessandro VII to the procession of Corpus Domini belonging to Museé des Beaux Arts of Nancy; the Portrait of Clemente XIII of Anton Raphael Mengs belonging to Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna.