From October 8th 2010 to february 6th 2011 it is possible to admire seventy paintings among the most important masterpieces of Vincent Van Gogh at the Vittorano Museum Complex in Rome. The duch master’s workes come back to Rome after more than twenty years absence. This exibition is therefore an appointment that really cannot be given up. Its title “Vincent Van Gogh. Timeless countryside – Modern town” denotes, as Renzo De Simone writes on Beniculturali.it, “a scientific route” that “for the first time analyses the two contradictory inclinations which often guided the painter in the choice of his painting’s subject: his love for countryside, seen as fixed and unchanging environment, and his link with town, centre of the modern life and its rapid movement”.
The exibited works are watercolours and drawings on paper. Besides, it is possible to admire pictures of painters such as Millet, Pizarro, Cezanne, Gauguin and Seurat, “great artists who were a source of inspiration” for the dutch painter, as De Simone explains again. The exibition curator is Cornelia Homburg, one of the greatest expert of Van Gogh and his works. What else can I say? Nothing! You must visit the Vittoriano Museum Complex because such occasions don’t occur very often.
Visiting hours are the following:
from monday to thursday: 9:30 – 19:30
on fridays and saturdays: 9:30 – 23:30
on sundays: 9:30 – 23:30
The full ticket costs 12 euros, the reduced-rate one costs 8,50 euros
