Beauty, mystery, obsession. One of the largest exhibitions ever dedicated to Italian Symbolism. More than 140 works — paintings, sculptures, engravings — reveal to the general public the most visionary season of Italian art between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a chapter shaped in close dialogue with an international trend rooted in various declinations of Pre-Raphaelitism and in a French and Central European culture that found key references in Gustave Moreau and Arnold Böcklin. Yet the Italian path to Symbolism developed its own distinct identity, recognizable in the convergence of spiritual impulses and the constant reflection on myth and landscape, capable of holding together tradition and modernity.
Nature as a living organism, myth as a disquieting experience, the female figure as an ambivalent presence, the landscape as a space of interiority, the graphic sign as a vehicle of the invisible: these are the thematic cores of the seven sections of the exhibition, conceived to convey the full complexity and breadth of the Italian Symbolist imagination.
Among them is also a work from the UniCredit Art Collection, Villa Borghese by the artist Onorato Carlandi, which will be on view from 14 March to 28 June 2026.
For more information: Il Simbolismo in Italia – FONDAZIONE MAGNANI ROCCA
