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Collezione Farnesina

Cultural Diplomacy
19 November 2025
The Farnesina Collection at Roma Arte in Nuvola

The Farnesina Collection will participate in the fifth edition of Roma Arte in Nuvola – International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art with a selection of six photographs: one by Tommaso Fiscaletti, four by Mimmo Jodice, and one by Mustafa Sabbagh. The photographs are part of the group exhibition “Impossible Images”, curated by Arianna Catania, […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
2 April 2025
Farnesina Collection: the digital path to cultural diplomacy

The Farnesina Collection is now online! Thanks to the collaboration between the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Google Arts & Culture, everyone—free of charge, anytime, and from anywhere—can explore the contemporary Italian artworks that make up the Farnesina Collection. The digitisation project, launched in 2016, now allows users to browse over 400 pieces of […]

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Events
20 November 2024
Delegation from Spirit Now London visits the Farnesina Collection

A delegation from the philanthropic association Spirit Now London will today visit the contemporary art collection of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Farnesina). The initiative is part of a larger project supported by the MAIRE Group that embraces art, technology and sustainability with the aim of promoting culture and creativity as […]

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Events
21 June 2024
Farnesina Collection – next opening to the public on 28 June

The next opening to the public of the Farnesina Collection and Palazzo della Farnesina will be held on Friday 28 June. It will be the last event to take place before the summer break. The day is part of the “Aperti per voi’” (Open for you) initiative of the Italian Touring Club, which the Italian […]

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Press Releases
18 June 2024
Tajani – “The Farnesina Collection is a great contemporary art museum”. Inauguration of a work by master Alberto Burri

Today, the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, inaugurated “Cellotex Rivoli, 14”, a work of art by the famous artist Alberto Burri, which expands the Farnesina Collection. “Since the beginning of my mandate, I have strived to enhance the Farnesina Collection, also with foreign guests. I want […]

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In detail
18 June 2024
Minister Antonio Tajani participates in the inauguration ceremony of the work “Cellotex Rivoli, 14” by Alberto Burri in the Farnesina Collection

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani, chairs the inauguration ceremony of the work “Cellotex Rivoli, 14” by the renowned Maestro Alberto Burri in the Hall of Honour at the Farnesina, together with representatives of the Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri and the Scientific Committee of the Farnesina Collection, the committee that recently approved the acquisition […]

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In detail
8 January 2024
The Farnesina Collection

Contemporary artistic research as a strategic cultural policy intervention. It was with this goal in mind that the Farnesina Collection was established in 2000. On the initiative of the then Secretary General, Ambassador Umberto Vattani, and thanks to the work of several scientific committees, the Collection brings together works of the highest profile in the history of Italian art of the 20th […]

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Events
8 September 2023
The Farnesina Collection events are back

After the summer break, the double appointment with contemporary Italian art at the Farnesina Collection is back, with “I Giovedì della Collezione” and “Aperti per Voi”. The two events, which are part of the usual opening to the public of the Farnesina Palace and its Collection of over 680 works, will be held on 14 […]

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Events
14 August 2023
1943 by Jacopo Benassi in the Farnesina Collection

Among the recent acquisitions in the Farnesina Collection is 1943 by Jacopo Benassi (La Spezia, 1970), a strongly evocative and composite work. Delimited by rough wooden frames that recall the unpacking of a life, 1943 is the artist’s tender homage to his recently deceased mother. On the deepest level, the work presents a painting by […]

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Events
12 July 2023
Two works by Franz Cerami in the Farnesina Collection

Among the recent acquisitions of the Farnesina Collection are two works by Franz Cerami – Mars (2021) and Venus I (2022) – belonging to the “Red Venus” series, which was exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Naples in 2022. The Farnesina Collection is a collection of over 600 works of Italian art, ranging from the […]

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Events
16 June 2023
Farnesina Collection: opening to the public on 23 June

Bookings to visit the Farnesina Palace and its Collection on June 23, the last scheduled tour before the summer break, are now open. The event is part of the Italian Touring Club’s “Aperti per voi” (Open for You) initiative, which the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation joined in 2016. In addition to […]

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