Exhibitions
Temporary exhibitions engage the Museum of Archaeological Sciences and Art both in the realization of exhibitions on-site with a predominantly educational character (often conceived as a result to its own or shared research projects) and in collaboration with the most important national and international museums to which works are lent on temporary exhibitions of higher scientific profile. These loans are a precious opportunity for the museum, both from the point of view of scientific research because they can contribute to a re-reading, or a new study, of the artifacts and works of art involved, and for their enhancement and that of the museum to a much wider public than that which usually attends permanent exhibitions.
Exhibitions at the Museum
Nothing is thrown away. Circular economies in the ancient world
Padua, Museum of Archaeological Sciences and Art, 15.05.2024 – 12.06.2024
A didactic and scientific project on sustainability on the 2024 Sustainable Development Festival: didactic and scientific project by Margarita Gleba and Guido Furlan of the Department of Cultural Heritage together with Alessandra Menegazzi of the University Center for Museums – University of Padua.
LIVING MATTER installation by Anna Piratti
Padua, Museum of Archaeological Sciences and Art, 09.11.2023 – 07.01.2024
A dialogue between archaeology and contemporary art. Installation supported by Padova Jazz Festival.
Between True and False
Padua, Palazzo Cavalli, 15.11.2018 – 25.11.2018
New studies on Greek and Magna Graecia pottery of the museum, as part of the MemO Project.
The excavation and Paduan archaeological research in Egypt (section of the exhibition Egypt in Veneto)
Padua, Museum of Archaeological Sciences and Art, 19 April – 30 June 2013
The final exhibition of the EgittoVeneto project
Visit the poster for information about the end-of-project conference ›
Collaborations
(last 10 years)
Clay. Stories of Encounters
Vicenza, Gallerie d'Italia - Palazzo Leoni Montanari, 12.10.2023 - 09.09.2024
Loan of a vase from the Merlin collection: the lebes gamikos (Merlin36).
Clay. Stories of Travels
Vicenza, Gallerie d’Italia - Palazzo Leoni Montanari, 22.09.2022 - 11.09.2023
Loan of two vases from the Mantova Benavides collection: an Apulian column krater attributed to the Painter of Vienna 1051, 4th century BC (MB139); a Renaissance krater after the Antique attributed to Nicola dalle Maioliche, 16th century (MB147).
Clay. Stories of vases
Vicenza, Gallerie d’Italia - Palazzo Leoni Montanari, 22.07.2021 - 05.06.2022
Loan of four vases from the Merlin collection: 3 Corinthian vases: an aryballos (Merlin12), an amphoriskos (Merlin14), a skyphos (Merlin16) datable between late 7th century BC and early 6th century BC; an Apulian pelike datable to the middle of the 4th century BC (Merlin39).
Donatello. Sculpting the Renaissance
Londra, Victoria & Albert Museum-South Kensington, 11.02 - 11.06.2023
As the result of a joint exhibition project with the National Museum of Bargello and the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation in Florence, loan of work from the Mantova Benavides collection: Model of the head of Gattamelata, Venetian workshop after Donatello, 16th century (MB75).
Donatello. Erfinder der Renaissance
Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemälde Galerie, 2.09.2022 - 8.01.2023
As the result of a joint exhibition project with the National Museum of Bargello and the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation in Florence, loan of work from the Mantova Benavides collection: Model of the head of Gattamelata, Venetian workshop after Donatello, 16th century (MB75).
The Renaissance factory. Creative Processes, market, and production in Vicenza
Vicenza, Basilica Palladiana, 11.11.2021 - 08.05.2022
Loan of three works from the Mantova Benavides collection: Renaissance cast of the Grimani Vitellius, Venetian workshop, 16th century (MB63); two Renaissance kraters after the Antique attributed to Nicola dalle Maioliche, 16th century (MB146 and 147).
Andrea Mantegna. Reliving the Ancient, Building the Modern
Turin, Palazzo Madama, 12.12.2019 - 20.07.2020
Loan of a work from the Mantova Benavides collection: Model of the Head of Gattamelata, Venetian workshop after Donatello, 16th century (MB75).
The Young Tintoretto
Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia, 07.09.2018 - 06.01.2019
Loan of a work from the Mantova Benavides collection: Bartolomeo Ammannati, Autograph model for the allegory of Wisdom, c. 1545 (MB18).
Lorenzo Lotto. Portraits
Londra, The National Gallery, 05.11.2018 – 19.02.2019
Loan of a work from the Mantova Benavides collection: female statuette leaning on a small pillar, 2nd century BC (MB 136).
Lorenzo Lotto. Portraits
Madrid, Museo del Prado, 18.06.2018 - 30.09.2018
Loan of a work from the Mantova Benavides collection: female statuette leaning on a small pillar, 2nd century BC (MB 136).
Tintoretto. A star was born
Köln, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Foundation Corbaud, 06.10.2017 - 28.01.2018
Loan of two works from the Mantova Benavides collection: Bartolomeo Ammannati, Autograph model for the allegory of Wisdom, c. 1545 (MB18); reduced copy of Aurora, Venetian workshop (after Michelangelo) 16th century (MB21). Also, from the plaster cast gallery: the modern cast of the Head of Grimani Vitellius (G74).
Tintoret. Naissance d’un génie
Paris, Museum du Luxembourg, 07.03 - 01.07.2018
Loan of two works from the Mantova Benavides collection: Bartolomeo Ammannati, Autograph model for the allegory of Wisdom, c. 1545 (MB18); reduced copy of Aurora, Venetian workshop (after Michelangelo) 16th century (MB21). Also, from the plaster cast gallery: the modern cast of the Head of Grimani Vitellius (G74).
Order and bizarreness. The Renaissance of Marcello Fogolino
Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, 08.07.2017 - 05.11.2017
Loan of work from the Mantova Benavides collection: Late Hellenistic female torso, 2nd century BC (MB95).
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519. The Design of the World
Milan, Palazzo Reale, 15.04 - 19.07.2015
Loan of work from the Mantova Benavides collection: Late Hellenistic female torso, 2nd century BC (MB95).
To learn more, consult the exhibition catalogue: Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519. The Design of the World, edited by P.C.Marani and M.T. Florio, Skira, Milan 2015 available at the Library of Sciences of Antiquity, Art, Music Liviano:Â
https://biblio.unipd.it/biblioteche/liviano.
Portable Classic. Ancient Greek to Modern Europe
Venice, Prada Foundation - Ca' Corner della Regina, 09.05 - 13.09.2015
Loan of two works from the Mantova Benavides collection: female statuette leaning on a small pillar, 2nd century AD (MB 136); Fragmentary bust of Lucius Verus, 16th century (MB 151).
Le printemps de la Renaissance. La sculpture et le arts à Florence 1400 - 1460
Paris, Musée du Louvre, 26.09.2013 - 06.01.2014
Loan of work from the Mantova Benavides collection: Model of the head of Gattamelata, Venetian workshop after Donatello, 16th century (MB75).
To learn more, consult the exhibition catalog: Le Printemps de la Renaissance. La sculpture et les arts à Florence 1400 – 1460, under the direction of Marc Bormand and Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, Musée du Louvre, Paris – Officina Libraria, Milan, 2013.