Rome – Diana Luna

Historians Warn a New Mario Sironi Museum in Rome Must Not Become an “Endorsement of Fascism”

8. November 2026 by sl1 - Assistant de galerie

Bright comic of three smiling fair-skinned cartoon figures with clear faces facing the viewer in a sunlit Rome museum gallery with colourful modernist paintings and a large mural

Italy’s culture ministry plans a state museum for the Modernist painter Mario Sironi, a supporter of Mussolini. Historians say the rooms must make clear there is no endorsement of fascism.

“Egypt and Rome, the Faces of Fayum”: 2,000-Year-Old Mummy Portraits Arrive at the Ara Pacis

3. November 2026 by sl1 - Assistant de galerie

Bright comic of a smiling Egyptian curator, an Italian colleague and a happy family beside vitrines with painted mummy portraits and a gilded mask in a Rome museum

From 4 November the Ara Pacis museum in Rome shows the Fayum mummy portraits, with several works leaving Egypt for the first time, including the freshly restored “Tondo of the Two Brothers”.