The Chiara Lecca “From the Egg to the Goddess in the secret rooms of Doria Pamphilj” art exhibit in Rome February 20th, 2025.

The magnificent Doria Pamphilj Gallery of Rome (it’s home to one of the largest private art collections in the world with works by Caravaggio, Velazquez, Bernini and Tiziano) is currently hosting until April 27th, 2025 the “From the Egg to the Goddess in the secret rooms of Doria Pamphilj” contemporary art exhibit by Chiara Lecca.  

Eleven egg-shaped sculptures by the 48 year-old artist (she was born in Modigliana, Italy) are on display in the secret rooms of the aristocratic Pamphilj Family Gallery, rooms that aren't quite often open to the general public.  

Edvard Munch’s "Interior Scream" exhibit at Rome’s Palazzo Bonaparte, February 10th, 2025

Rome’s Palazzo Bonaparte (where Napoleon’s mother once lived) is currently hosting until June 2^nd, 2025 Edvard Munch’s "Interior Scream" art exhibit.   On display are 100 paintings by the artist.  

Munch (1863–1944) was a Norwegian painter and engraver who had infused his subjects with an intense emotionalism, exploring the use of vivid color and linear distortion to express feelings about life and death.   He is widely regarded as being the precursor of "Expressionism".

Having lost his mother when he was only 5 years old, as well as his sister and father and also his tormented relationship with his girlfriend Tulla Larsen, one sees that much of Munch’s artistic work was influenced by his rather dark past: emotional violence, suffocating and anguishing images, alcoholism, near-fatal accidents, nervous breakdowns and several visits to private health clinics.

Unquestionably Munch’s most famous painting remains to this day “The Scream” (1893).