June 18 – October 18, 2026
The exhibition is dedicated to a highly original work: a calligram that exploits the properties of the microscope to allow the reading of a text nearly invisible and illegible to the naked eye. The script composes a Madonna and Child derived from a painting by Pietro da Cortona now in the Louvre, Saint Martina with the Virgin and Child (1643). The author is Francesco Ignazio Muligino, a calligrapher active between France and Italy at the end of the 17th century, who mastered the use of optical science in support of his art.
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