The Ara Pacis Museum in Rome will welcome fifty-two masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts, among the most important museums in the United States, for the exhibition IMPRESSIONISM and Beyond. Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts, open to the public from December 4, 2025 to May 3, 2026. Curated by Ilaria Miarelli Mariani and Claudio Zambianchi, it is promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, co-produced and organized by the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali and MondoMostre with the support of Zètema Progetto Cultura.
Organized in four sections, the exhibition leads visitors from the origins of Impressionism to the avant-garde movements of the early decades of the 20th century, offering paintings by artists such as Courbet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many other protagonists of European art. The exhibition aims to trace the birth and development of modern painting, exploring the dialogue between light and color, nature and the urban environment, reality and abstraction, as well as the experiments that radically transformed the artistic language of the 20th century.
Prominent among the works on display are Woman in an Armchair (1874) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the exhibition’s guiding image - and Bathers (1879-1880) by Paul Cézanne, paintings that testify to research on the figure, light and the construction of pictorial space.
Founded in the late 19th century, the Detroit Institute of Arts now holds a collection of more than 65,000 works ranging from ancient to contemporary art. Already in the early decades of the twentieth century, the museum became a key reference point for collecting and highlighting the European avant-garde in the United States.
The exhibition is open to the public daily from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 24 and 31 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Jan. 1, 2026 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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