L’irrefrenabile curiosità

Twentieth-century paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints from the collection of the writer and critic Leone Piccioni, given to the museums in 2024.

Piccioni (1925–2018), a critic, journalist and deputy director general of the broadcaster RAI, studied under the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, through whom he met Burri, Morandi, Guttuso, Carrà, Fautrier and Dorazio, all of them in the show.

His children Gloria and Giovanni gave the collection in 2024. The show, curated by Micol Forti, marks the centenary of his birth, and each room takes up one strand of how the collection came together.

Full details at museivaticani.va