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From 5 December to 3 May, Palazzo Farnese hosts the exhibition "Sibyls – Voices beyond time, beyond stone".
The centrepiece of the exhibition is Domenichino's Cumaean Sibyl, a seventeenth-century masterpiece on loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome, displayed alongside eight contemporary sculptures by Piacenza-based artist Christian Zucconi.
The exhibition route offers a fascinating journey through the myth of the Sibyls – prophetic figures present in several symbolic sites in Piacenza, including the Cathedral, Santa Maria di Campagna and the Basilica of San Francesco – creating a dialogue between ancient and contemporary art. Zucconi's works, made of Persian red travertine and iron, renew the meaning of the myth through a powerful symbolic and psychological dimension.
The exhibition builds an ideal bridge between masters such as Pordenone, Malosso, Guercino and Domenichino and contemporary artistic research, confirming the enduring vitality of the Sibylline theme in the history of Italian art.
