From the Uffizi to Miramare: Titian’s Madonna of the Roses and the Habsburg Collections between Vienna and Florence – Miramare Castle

On 17th March the exhibition From the Uffizi to Miramare: Titian’s Madonna of the Roses and the Habsburg Collections between Vienna and Florence was inaugurated at the Miramare Castle in Trieste. Curated by Alice Cavinato and Fabio Tonzar, together with director of the Miramare Castle Museum and Park Andreina Contessa, the exhibition offers an unprecedented partnership between Miramare Castle and the Florentine museum, centered on a single pictorial gem: the Madonna col Bambino tra i santi Giovanni Battista e Antonio Abate, known as “Madonna of the Roses”, by Tiziano Vecellio, part of the ancient collection of the Habsburgs.

Exhibited in a room on the ground floor and included in the tour, the Florentine painting represents a Sacred Conversation with the Virgin and Child, San Giovannino and Sant’Antonio and ows its name from the flowers that San Giovannino gives to the child Jesus, thus prefiguring the story.

We are proud of the exhibition created, which enhances a masterpiece of sixteenth-century Italian painting and allows the visitor to admire it at its best and to deepen his relationship with the extensive Habsburg collections.

Photo Courtesy: Miramare Castle / Artribune