The Doge's Palace presents the largest exhibition of the last 25 years dedicated to one of the most iconic artists in the history of international art and among the most beloved by the general public, Anton van Dyck. 

A "genius", indeed, capable of transcending the centuries and meeting the taste, for content and painting technique, of different social contexts and many historical periods. Van Dyck was an artist who managed to systematize a series of solutions and sensitivities coming from various environments and, at the same time, to translate them into innovative formulas.

The exceptional nature of the exhibition - which aims to be a retrospective open to an international perspective - is due to the truly extraordinary number of Van Dyck's works (60 in ten thematic sections), lent by the greatest and most authoritative museums in Europe, including the Louvre in Paris, the Prado and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid and the National Gallery in London, as well as Italian museums, including the Uffizi Gallery, the Brera Art Gallery in Milan, the Royal Museums of Turin, as well as prestigious international foundations and collections, such as the Belgian Phoebus and the Portuguese Gaudium Magnum.

Van Dyck was a European painter, in the literal sense of the term: works from the important Italian period between 1621 and 1627 will be presented, in which Genoa played a central role, but also numerous works executed in the different moments of the painter's career, in Flanders, his homeland, and in London, where he was called to work for King Charles I of England. The artist's artistic trajectory runs along the thread of Europe's economic and political history.

The exhibition aims to be a journey to discover the Van Dyck of "three homelands" and "three distinct seasons", leading the visitor not on a strictly chronological path, but with thematic proposals that most clearly demonstrate how his art was able to adapt and mature. But above all, to win the taste and favor of everyone, then as now.