Beauty, mystery, obsession.
One of the largest exhibitions ever dedicated to Italian Symbolism with over 140 works, including paintings, sculptures, and prints, from March 14 to June 28, 2026, at the Magnani Rocca Foundation, near Parma.
In the famous Villa dei Capolavori, the exhibition is divided into seven sections and features works that reveal to the general public the most visionary period of Italian art between the 19th and 20th centuries: a chapter that developed in close dialogue with an international trend that drew from various strands of Pre-Raphaelitism and a French and Central European culture, with Gustave Moreau and Arnold Böcklin among its main references. Yet the Italian path to Symbolism managed to develop its own identity, recognizable in the convergence of spiritual concerns with a persistent reflection on myth and landscape, capable of combining tradition and modernity.
Among the artists on display: Giovanni Segantini, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Gaetano Previati, Arnold Böcklin, Edward Burne-Jones, Franz von Stuck, Max Klinger, Domenico Morelli, Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Galileo Chini, Luigi Russolo, Leonardo Bistolfi, Adolfo Wildt, Giulio Bargellini, Adolfo De Carolis, Francesco Paolo Michetti, Plinio Nomellini, Emilio Longoni, Ettore Tito, Carlo Fornara, Duilio Cambellotti, Felice Carena, Alberto Martini, Cesare Saccaggi, Libero Andreotti, Ettore Ximenes, Mario De Maria, Mariano Fortuny.
