EXHIBITIONS

The majority of Rome’s museums and galleries have reopened to the public following the covid-19 lockdown. Advance booking is mandatory and the wearing of masks in obligatory, with guests required to pass through a thermoscanner on arrival. The lack of tourists means that now is a great time to enjoy Rome’s crowd-free museums and exhibitions.

METAFORAMORFOSES 25 June-25 July World Press Photo at Palazzo delle Esposizioni. Lee-Ann Olwage, Black Drag Magic - Portrait of a Drag Artist and Activist, 2020 Photo Contest, Portraits, Singles, 2nd Prize. The Dorothy Circus Gallery presents Metaforamorfoses, an exhibition by The exhibition of 40 works on paper Museums. The show is centred the Brazilian artist Rafael Silveira. and watercolours highlights the around Caravaggio’s Boy Bitten by a Themed around the opportunities sensitive, delicate nature of de Pisis Lizard, along with 40 works by the presented by change, the show who is best known for his cityscapes, artists influenced by the master’s will feature 12 oil paintings rich metaphysically-inspired maritime work in the 17th century. The in symbology and the joyful scenes and still lifes. Later in life the paintings come from the collection colours typical of South American extravagant de Pisis lived in Venice of Roberto Longhi, one of the culture. In line with Italy’s social where he was ferried around in leading Italian art critics of the past distancing measures the exhibition his personal gondola. Tickets must century, on the 50th anniversary will be open by appointment only. be purchased exclusively online of his death. The Caravaggio Dorothy Circus Gallery, Via dei Pettinari 76, tel. 68805928, www. dorothycircusgallery.it. via the Coopculture website, for more information tel. 0639967701. Palazzo Altemps, Piazza di S. Apollinare 46, www.coopculture.it. exhibition will be followed later in September by the Torlonia Marbles blockbuster, postponed due to the covid-19 crisis. Musei Capitolini, FILIPPO DE PISIS 17 June-20 Sept Palazzo Altemps, one of Rome’s finest museums, presents a retrospective IL TEMPO DI CARAVAGGIO 16 June-13 Sept Rome pays tribute to Caravaggio Piazza del Campidoglio 1, tel. 060608, www.museicapitolini.org. WORLD PRESS PHOTO dedicated to the Italian artist and poet Filippo de Pisis (1896-1956). with a new exhibition at Palazzo Caffarelli, part of the Capitoline 16 June-2 Aug The World Press Photo exhibition in Rome, initially scheduled to open in April and postponed due to covid-19, presents the 139 winning images in the 2020 contest. Each year an independent jury at the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam selects images for this prestigious recognition of international photojournalism. The 63rd annual World Press Photo Contest drew entries from around the world: 4,282 photographers from 125 countries submitted 73,996 images. The jury gave prizes in eight categories to 44 photographers from 24 Filippo de Pisis at Palazzo Altemps. © Filippo de Pisis by SIAE 2019. Il marinaio francese, 1930, private collection, countries, with Yasuyoshi Chiba’s image Straight Voice announced as the 2020 World Press Photo

of the Year. The Rome exhibition features, for the first time, a selection of the most famous Photo of the Year prize-winners since 1955. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194, tel. 06696271, www.palazzoesposizioni.it.

15 ANNI DI ROSSO20SETTE

13 June-17 July Rosso20sette Arte Contemporanea celebrates 15 years in Rome with a group exhibition featuring the work of international street artists including JR, Obey, Pure Evil, D * Face and important Italian street artists including Maupal, Marco Rèa, Demetrio Di Grado and Pax Paloscia. Since Rosso20sette opened its first exhibition space in June 2005, it has staged more than 60 exhibitions with more than 300 exhibited artists, ranging from photography to street art. Curated by Tiziana Cino and Stefano Ferraro, the exhibition can be visited Tues-Sat 11.00-19.30. See cover of this edition by Pax Paloscia. Via del Sudario 39 (Largo Argentina), tel. 0664761113, www.rosso27.com.

RAPHAEL

2 June-30 Aug This “unprecedented” exhibition dedicated to Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael,

Boy Bitten by a Lizard by Caravaggio at Palazzo Caffarelli. Woman with a veil is part of the Raphael blockbuster in Rome this summer.

to mark the 500th anniversary of the death of the High Renaissance artist and architect has reopened at the Scuderie del Quirinale. The show was closed just days after opening in March, due to Italy’s covid-19 lockdown, and it is now open strictly by appointment, with masks obligatory. The blockbuster show features more than 200 masterpieces – never before gathered in the same place – including paintings and sketches as well as comparison works. About 100 of the works are by Raphael himself, with 40 paintings on loan from the Uffizi in Florence and others from major world museums. The exhibition includes the Madonna del Granduca and Woman with a Veil from the Uffizi; the Portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione and Self-Portrait with Friend from the Louvre, and the Madonna of the Rose from the Prado. Open until 01.00 at weekends. Scuderie del Quirinale, Via XXIV Maggio 16, tel. 0292897722, www. scuderiequirinale.it.

REMBRANDT AT GALLERIA CORSINI

2 June-30 Sept Galleria Corsini showcases Rembrandt’s Self Portrait as St Paul, in an historic return for the masterpiece which has not been seen in Rome for more than two centuries. The painting, on loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, originally belonged to the noble Corsini family but was sold to art dealers – apparently without the knowledge of Prince Tomasso Corsini – during the French occupation of 1799. The exhibition also includes a selection of engravings by Rembrandt from the Corsini collection. Galleria Corsini, Via della Lungara 10, tel. 0668802323, www. barberinicorsini.org.

ARA GÜLER

2 June-20 Sept The Museo di Roma in Trastevere dedicates an exhibition to Ara Güler (1928-2018) ranked one of the seven best photographers in the world by the British Journal of Photography Yearbook. The exhibition is composed largely of photographs of Istanbul taken by Güler since the 1950s, the decade in which he was recruited by Henri Cartier-Bresson for the Magnum Agency, becoming correspondent for the Near East. A lucid observer of Turkish history and society, the Armenian photographer bequeathed an archive of over two million photos, some of which can be seen in Rome. In addition to the 45 black and white views of Istanbul, there are 37 portraits of well-known cultural, political and religious figures including Federico Fellini, Sophia Loren and Pope Paul VI. Museo di Roma in Trastevere,