In this note we offer some photographs of the exhibition “The Christ of Dalí”, a cultural initiative that takes place in a church in Rome, within the framework of the next Jubilee of 2025.
This is the first time that “The Christ” by Salvador Dalí, one of the Spanish artist’s most famous works of the 20th century, is exhibited in the Eternal City.
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This exhibition is part of the initiative The Jubilee is culture whose third edition is titled The Open Skies (The Open Heavens), this time in the San Marcello al Corso church, in the center of Rome, which can be visited until June 23.
This Dalí painting, from 1951, is normally on display at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland.
Next to the famous painting is the object that inspired Salvador Dalí, a drawing created in the mid-16th century by Saint John of the Cross.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
Salvador Dalí, whose full name was Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech (1904 – 1989) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, set designer and writer, considered one of the greatest representatives of surrealism, a movement that focused on the dreamlike or the relative. to dreams.
One of his most famous paintings is The Persistence of Memory (also known as The soft clocks) from 1931.
In addition to being considered eccentric, perhaps one of his most distinct physical features was his mustache, in the shape of an inverted arch.
His face was also spread throughout the world by the Spanish series “La casa de papel”, in which the protagonists wore a mask with his image.