From July 6 to October 30, 2025, the Diocesan Museum of Agrigento, in the year of Agrigento Capital of Culture 2025, will host the exhibition The Fire of Love. Mary Magdalene. Female Witness of Hope, sponsored by the Holy See’s Dicastery for Culture.
Masterpieces that will arrive on loan for the occasion from important museums, particularly the Vatican Museums, will be on display. In fact, the exhibition aims to be an iconographic, biblical and cultural journey around the figure of Mary Magdalene.
The particular thematic choice finds a strong identity value due to the widespread presence of her figure throughout the vast territory of the Archdiocese since the Middle Ages. From the fresco with the 14th-century theory of holy crusader knights on a wall of the Monastery of Santo Spirito, referring to both hagiographic tradition and Cistercian iconography, to the 15th-century wooden ceiling panels of the Church of Santa Maria dei Greci. Magdalene is also found in the many painted and marble crosses of the diocesan heritage.
Among the artists featured are Giovanni Di Pietro da Napoli, Giovanni Portaluni, Guercino, Cecco del Caravaggio, Nicolas Regnier, Mattia Preti, Pietro D’Asaro, Andrea Vaccaro, Mariano Rossi, Fra’ Felice da Sambuca, and Francesco Hayez. From the great masters to local artists who were inspired by the greats. The works have been loaned by the Vatican Museums, Palazzo Barberini Corsini, the Diocesan Museums Carlo Maria Martini in Milan and San Matteo in Salerno, the Museo Nazionale San Matteo in Pisa, Palazzo Abatellis, Fondazione Carit.
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| At the Diocesan Museum of Agrigento an exhibition on the figure of Mary Magdalene, with works by great masters |
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