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Baroque residence next to Piazza Venezia in Rome, the Palazzo Bonaparte was built by the family of Ligurian origin D’Aste in the se- venteenth century.
The mother of Napoleon, Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte stayed there for more than twenty years until 1836.
Inaugurated in October, this magnificent private house is today a very beautiful museum, a cultural place open to the public.
The «secret» masterpieces of the Impressionist movement find there a most perfect framework.
Fifty paintings from private international collections, inaccessible and signed by the most famous artists of the time from Monet to Cezanne, Renoir to Pissaro and Caillebotte, are presented alongside less known painters.
This exhibition is a journey into the heart of the most cherished themes of this pictorial movement in total rupture with Academism.
Berthe Morisot
In front of the psyche, 1890
Oil on canvas, 55x46 cm
Pierre Gianadda Foundation Collection, Martigny, Switzerland Photo Michel Darbellay, Martigny