Rome never stops revealing itself. Even in a city so deeply known and admired, it still finds ways to surprise those who look with attentive eyes.
From Vienna to Rome: a meeting of empires, art, and beauty
This season, the Eternal City becomes the meeting point of two great European cultural capitals. Within the elegant rooms of Palazzo Cipolla, the story of the Habsburg dynasty unfolds through more than fifty masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Curated by Cäcilia Bischoff, the exhibition goes beyond the idea of a dynasty, revealing a worldview: multicultural, layered, and profoundly European. An empire that turned art into a language of representation and dialogue, moving through centuries of history with a vision that still resonates today.
In the exhibition rooms, the great masters of European painting come into dialogue — from Rubens to Van Dyck, from Brueghel the Elder to Cranach — alongside Italian masters such as Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, and Arcimboldo. A silent conversation across schools, eras, and artistic sensibilities.
The journey culminates with the Habsburg Kunstkammer, opening a window onto a world suspended between wonder and knowledge: objects, rarities, and creations reflecting humanity’s desire to understand, collect, and interpret the world.
And so, between art and light, Rome becomes a place where travel turns into experience — not only to be seen, but to be lived.
The exhibition is open to visitors in Rome, at Palazzo Cipolla, from March 6 to July 5, 2026.