Marc Chagall’s “White Crucifixion” is on display in Rome’s Palazzo Cipolla, December 27th, 2024

Marc Chagall was a Russian-born French painter and graphic artist of Jewish origin (Chagall lived in the south of France and was the neighbour of former Rolling Stones bass guitarist Bill Wyman).

                         

 
His “White Crucifixion” painting is currently on display (free admission) at Rome's central Palazzo Cipolla museum.

 
The theme of the painting was inspired shortly after by the tragic events of the “Night Of The Crystals” which took place on November 9^th-10^th, 1938 when the Nazi regime had unleashed hell against Jews, their stores and also their synagogues.

 
Pope Francis also saw the painting on December 8^th, 2024. 

Franco Fontana’s “Retrospective” photo exhibit at Rome’s Ara Pacis Museum, January 5th, 2025

Franco Fontana is one of the deans of Italian photojournalism.  His “Retrospective” photo exhibit is currently on until August 31^st, 2025 at Rome’s central Ara Pacis Museum (it had been visited 80+ years ago by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler during the German leader’s official visit to Rome).

Fontana was born in 1933 in Modena, Italy.  He began photographing in 1961 and since then has published over 50 books on the world of photography.  His work has encompassed landscape photography as well as fashion (“Vogue”), technology and also a wide array of colourful street photography. 

 
Fontana’s work can be seen in over 50 museums worldwide, including Rochester’s International Museum of Photography, New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Moscow’s Puskin Museum of Fine Art.