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After almost four hundred years, over 90 paintings returned to the Dukes city, reunited again (often for the first time in Italy) - with some absolute masterpieces in the history of art such as Titian's Portrait of a Young Woman in the Mirror, Venus Toilette made of rock crystals, weapons, bronzes and rare musical codes: an emblematic and exemplary selection of the Gonzaga's collection at its peak, just as it appears "photographed" in the list of assets of Ferdinando Gonzaga of 1626-1627, published and analyzed in the context of the preliminary studies for the exhibition, "stele di Rosetta" defined it by the curators - for the "deciphering" of the collection.

In Mantua, after the great exhibition on Mantegna in 1961, the more recent one on Giulio Romano in 1989 and after the great exhibitions organized by the International Center of Palazzo Te, another great exhibition was held that places it at the center of European and international attention, with works from all the major museums in the world.

An exhibition that represents, at the Fruttiere Palazzo Te and in the historic rooms of Palazzo Ducale, the sign of a small but qualified city that aspires to be a "center" of cultural production and that has in the recovery of its past one of the interpretative keys of its modernity, which wants to reconnect the threads of its history with its highest cultural tradition - that of the Gonzagas - to grasp the challenges of the future.