{"id":3682,"date":"2025-11-27T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.civita.art\/mostre\/fragility-of-the-eternal-from-pompeii-to-the-grand-tour-and-beyond\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:26:23","slug":"fragility-of-the-eternal-from-pompeii-to-the-grand-tour-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"mostre","link":"https:\/\/d2ud2e66zzg4f0.cloudfront.net\/en\/exhibitions\/fragility-of-the-eternal-from-pompeii-to-the-grand-tour-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragility of the Eternal. From Pompeii to the Grand Tour and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fragility of the Eternal. From Pompeii to the Grand Tour and beyond<\/h1>\n\n28 Nov 2025 \u2013 29 Mar 2026<\/span>\n\n\n

Fragility of the Eternal. From Pompeii to the Grand Tour and Beyond, hosted at the National
Museum of Art of Timi\u0219oara, examines the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 as a
symbolic trauma within the Western imagination. Through the virtual voice of the Roman
soldier Lucio Valerio Sacer\u2014survivor of the eruption who later reached Dacia\u2014the
exhibition guides visitors on a journey from the apparent stability of Roman urban life to its
sudden dissolution.
More than one hundred works from major Italian museums\u2014from the National
Archaeological Museum of Naples to the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
in Rome\u2014bring together Pompeian frescoes, Grand Tour paintings and drawings, and iconic
pieces by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri and Anselm Kiefer.
Curated by Massimo Osanna and Filip Petcu, this international exhibition marks the opening
of the Romania\u2013Italy Cultural Year 2026, exploring how civilizations confront their own
impermanence through the memory of catastrophe.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The National Museum of Art of Timi\u0219oara presents Fragility of the Eternal. From Pompeii to
the Grand Tour and Beyond, an exhibition that reinterprets the ancient Vesuvian tragedy as a
key to understanding the contemporary condition.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 is presented not as an isolated event, but as an
archetype of collapse embedded in the Western consciousness. This primordial catastrophe
becomes the guiding thread of a journey across centuries of artistic creation, revealing how
cultures repeatedly return to moments of destruction to question their own identity and
transience.
An original narrative accompanies visitors throughout the exhibition: the voice of Lucius
Valerius Sacer, a Roman soldier whose name appears in an inscription on a commemorative
altar found in Dacia, documenting the presence of a survivor of the Vesuvian apocalypse. His
testimony transports us from the illusion of Roman eternity to the instant in which nature
disrupts every certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLeggi tutto<\/span>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition brings together over one hundred exceptional works from some of the most
prestigious Italian museums: the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, the Museum
and Royal Park of Capodimonte, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in
Rome, the Pantheon and Castel Sant\u2019Angelo \u2013 Directorate of National Museums of the City
of Rome, and the National Museums of Vomero. Sculptures, frescoes and everyday objects
from Pompeii resonate with engravings, paintings and refined nineteenth-century porcelains,
culminating in contemporary works by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri and Anselm Kiefer.
Curated by Professor Massimo Osanna, Director General of Museums at the Italian Ministry
of Culture, and by Filip Petcu, Director of the National Museum of Art of Timi\u0219oara, the
exhibition is promoted by the Culture Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and
produced by Civita Mostre e Musei. It serves as the inaugural event of the Romania\u2013Italy
Cultural Year 2026, which will officially open on 1 December in Rome, marking a new
chapter in the cultural dialogue between the two nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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INFO<\/h2>\n\n\n28 Nov 2025 \u2013 29 Mar 2026<\/span>\n\n\nMuseo Nazionale d\u2019Arte, Timi\u0219oara<\/span>\n\n\n\n