"Ecce Homo will have a residence and all of Italy as its domicile. And what can Antonello da Messina’s residence be this year? In the year that celebrates the city as the Italian Capital of Culture, it can only be L’Aquila to host at the Spanish Fort this extraordinary canvas that returns to Italy. After that, Ecce Homo will appear in Messina, in Florence, in Rome, in all the most important Italian museums and in all those places where people need to see beauty and history," said Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli, speaking in Saturnia at the Forum in Masseria 2026 in the panel Culture as an engine of development: heritage enhancement and economic growth.
It is the tempera on panel painting by Antonello da Messina recently purchased by the Italian state from Sotheby ’s for the sum of $14.9 million, about 12.6 million euros.
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| By 2026, Antonello da Messina's Ecce Homo will have residence in L'Aquila |
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