From July 5 to October 12, 2025, Villa Vauban, the museum of Luxembourg City, will host the exhibition “Viaggio in Italia. Views of Naples, Rome, Florence, Venise and Milan, 17th-19th centuries”, organized in collaboration with Gallerie d’Italia.
The exhibition is part of a fruitful partnership with Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Luxembourg, Intesa Sanpaolo Wealth Management Luxembourg, and the Embassy of Italy in Luxembourg.
Forty-six works selected from the Intesa Sanpaolo art collections will be exhibited to the public in Luxembourg for the first time, in an ideal dialogue with the works from Villa Vauban’s own collections dedicated to Italy.
The exhibition aims to explore the enduring fascination that Italy has exerted on the artistic and intellectual world over the centuries - especially during the 18th and 19th centuries - starting from one of the most captivating themes in art history: Antiquity as the model of ideal beauty, considered universally valid across time and space up to the dawn of modernity.
This so-called "ideal beauty" was identified not only with the perfect proportions of classical sculptures and monuments, but also with nature, particularly the Mediterranean landscape of Italy, between Rome and Naples.
From Magna Graecia potteries of the 4th century BC to Meriggio. Officine a Porta Romana by Umberto Boccioni from the early 20th century, the exhibition will delve into the essential destinations of the Grand Tour - Naples, Rome, Florence, Venice, and Milan - through the paintings of artists such as Canaletto, Luca Carlevarijs, Francesco Guardi, Gaspar van Wittel, and other great masters.