From November 8, 2025 to April 14, 2026, the Sale Chiablese of the Royal Museums of Turin will host the exhibition Orazio Gentileschi. A traveling painter, curated by Annamaria Bava (Royal Museums of Turin) and Gelsomina Spione (University of Turin). The exhibition will be dedicated to the extraordinary artistic and human story of Orazio Gentileschi, one of the most significant artists of seventeenth-century Italy, whose pictorial quality and fortune made him as famous as Caravaggio, Rubens and Van Dyck.
Appreciated during his lifetime by a vast number of patrons, collectors and royalty, from Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy and Maria de’ Medici to Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. His painting, characterized by refined elegance, luminous naturalism, and poetic use of color, won over sovereigns and aristocrats, frequenting leading art centers and Italian and foreign courts.
The thread of travel constitutes the exhibition’s interpretive key: an itinerary not only geographical, but also artistic and cultural. In fact, each stop represented an opportunity to confront new figurative contexts, other painters and different market needs, which the artist was able to translate into works of extraordinary originality.
The heart of the exhibition will be represented by the famous altarpiece of theAnnunciation, painted in 1623 for the Duke of Savoy and unanimously considered by critics as one of the absolute pinnacles of the master’s production. Around this masterpiece, the exhibition itinerary will be articulated through a dialogue between works preserved in Turin and a selection of loans from Italian and international museums and private collections.
The exhibition is fully in line with the mission of the Royal Museums of Turin, which is committed to a policy of collaboration and cultural exchange with national and foreign institutions.
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| An exhibition in Turin celebrates Orazio Gentileschi through the common thread of travel |
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