From March 22nd to July 20th 2025

Artist of Czech origins, Alphonse Mucha (Ivancice, 1860 – Prague, 1939) achieved international fame in fin de siècle Paris. Although he is known throughout the world for the show posters of the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt, Mucha was multifaceted and versatile: as well as a painter, designer and illustrator, he was also a photographer, set designer, interior designer, jewelery creator and packaging designer. The large monographic exhibition tells the biography, the artistic path and the many aspects of the production of Mucha, who was firmly convinced that the beauty and inspiring power of art could promote the progress of humanity and guarantee peace and the union of peoples.

Graceful and elegant women were the undisputed protagonists not only of the works of Alphonse Mucha, but also of those of Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara, 1842 - Paris, 1931) who, like the Czech artist, resided permanently in Paris, where he established himself as a worldly portraitist, highly sought after by a wealthy international clientele. The rooms of the Tisi wing of Palazzo dei Diamanti host a significant selection of paintings, drawings and engravings dedicated to the theme of the portrait and the female figure from the Giovanni Boldini Museum, the most important public collection of works by the great Ferrara master, which will reopen in the renovated Ferrara complex of Palazzo Massari in 2026.