DETROIT, MICH.- The major exhibition “Impressionism and Beyond - Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts” will be hosted in Rome, at the Museo dell’Ara Pacis, from Thursday, December 4, 2025, to Sunday, May 3, 2026. The exhibition is promoted by Roma Capitale – Department of Culture and the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, co-produced and organized by the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali and MondoMostre, with the support of Zètema Progetto Cultura and radio partner Dimensione Suono Soft.

Curated by Ilaria Miarelli Mariani and Claudio Zambianchi, the exhibition brings together 52 masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts, one of the most important museums in the United States. It offers an extraordinary opportunity to admire a unique selection of works by the great masters of modern European art from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Organized in four sections, the exhibition guides visitors from the origins of Impressionism to the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, showcasing paintings by Courbet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Beckmann, and many other leading figures of European art. It tells the story of the birth and evolution of modern painting — the dialogue between light and color, nature and city, reality and abstraction — and the experiments that redefined the artistic language of the 20th century.

Among the featured works are Woman in an Armchair (1874) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir — the image chosen for the exhibition’s communication campaign and official visual — and Bathers (1879-80) by Paul Cézanne, two paintings that magnificently exemplify the artists’ exploration of the human figure, light, and pictorial space.

With “Impressionism and Beyond - Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts,” the great European masters symbolically make the reverse transatlantic voyage — returning to engage once more with European audiences through a path of extraordinary beauty and intensity.

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), founded at the end of the 19th century, today houses a collection of over 65,000 works ranging from ancient to contemporary art. Already in the early decades of the 20th century, it had become an important point of reference for collecting European avant-garde movements in the United States.