Rome’s “Ara Pacis Museum” hosts Impressionists’ exhibit, December 3rd, 2025

Rome’s central “Ara Pacis Museum” (the Augustan “Alter of Peace”.  It was commissioned by the Roman Senate to celebrate the peace and prosperity that was brought during Emperor Augustus’s reign.  It was commissioned in 13 B.C.) is currently hosting the “Impressionism and Beyond.  Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts” exhibit. 

 
Fifty-two extraordinary works of art are on hand from Detroit’s Institute of Arts, some which have rarely been seen abroad.  Artists include Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso (six of his paintings are on display), Henri Mattise (three paintings), Max Beckmann, Camille Pissaro, Amedeo Modigliani and Alfred Sisley, just to name a few.

 
Other famous artists that are on hand and which are also part of Detroit’s collection are Max Liebermann, Wassily Kandinsky, Erich Heckel and Emil Nolde.

 
The exhibit will run until May 3^rd, 2026.