Overview
- Opening Friday in Amsterdam, the exhibition runs through 25 May before traveling to Rome’s Galleria Borghese from 22 June to 20 September.
- More than 80 works from about 50 lenders worldwide have been assembled through a collaboration with the Galleria Borghese.
- Centerpieces include Bernini’s Sleeping Hermaphroditus on loan from the Louvre, Caravaggio’s Narcissus, and Magritte’s The Red Model.
- The museum presents what it describes as the biggest exhibition to date devoted to art inspired by Ovid’s poem, spanning two millennia and multiple media.
- Contemporary perspectives feature prominently, including Juul Kraijer’s Medusa video installation, with a Metamorphoses in Music concert series scheduled through May.