Press Invitation

“Jubilee is Culture” Programme

Inauguration of the exhibition “Chagall in Rome. The White Crucifixion”

On Tuesday 26 November 2024, at 10.00, the opening of the exhibition “Chagall in Rome. The White Crucifixion” will be held. The White Crucifixion, work of the celebrated Belarusian painter Marc Chagall, will be on display for the first time in Rome – and in Italy – at the Fondazione Roma Museum Centre - Palazzo Cipolla. The Exhibition, the fourth exceptional exhibition of the Cultural Programme “Jubilee is Culture”, curated by the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for Fundamental Issues of Evangelization in the World, will be open to the public with free admission from 27 November 2024 to 27 January 2025, every day from 10.00 to 20.00.

The pro-prefect of the Dicastery, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the extraordinary Commissioner for the Juibilee, mayor Roberto Gualtieri, the president of Fondazione Roma Franco Parasassi, and Don Alessio Geretti, art expert and collaborator with the Dicastery for the “Jubilee is Culture” Programme, will speak at the inauguration.

Journalists are invited to participate in the event, during which it will be possible to see a preview of the work on display. It will then be possible to film and to carry out interviews.

ACCREDITATION PROCEDURE

Journalists and media operators who wish to participate must apply no less than 24 hours before the event, via the Holy See Press Office online accreditation system, at: press.vatican.va/accreditamenti

Press Office Jubilee 2025

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