The Casa Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, directed by Maria Giuseppina Di Monte and belonging to the Pantheon and Castel Sant’Angelo – Direzione Musei Nazionali della Città di Roma led by Luca Mercurio, presents the solo exhibition of Antonella Cappuccio Theatrum Mundi, curated by Maria Giuseppina Di Monte and Tiziano M. Todi, with the collaboration of Martina Casadio.

The exhibition features 16 large canvases by the artist and set designer Antonella Cappuccio depicting some of the most famous and iconic theatrical and cinematic costumes created by Sartoria Farani, a historic Italian excellence recognized internationally. The artist transforms the costume into the absolute protagonist: not just a simple stage object, but an evoked body, a living presence, an embodied memory that interacts with the environments of the Casa Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi.

Curator Tiziano M. Todi states: "Antonella Cappuccio engages with this place through an investigation into the nature of clothing, exploring theatrical costumes as living objects, creating a path and making the stage costumes absolute protagonists, disconnected from the bodies that inhabited them, autonomous narrative elements capable of evoking past and potential identities. Immersing oneself in the character to narrate all its nuances seems to be the key to Antonella Cappuccio's painting, which interacts with the costumes and conveys their internal tension, the history held in the details and folds, as if those costumes contained something beyond the choice of subjects, which is not random. These are costumes that have marked the history of Italian and international entertainment, costumes that have made the characters who wore them iconic, protagonists of great revolutions, witnesses of the aesthetic and social tensions of an era."

The exhibition, divided into multiple rooms, guides the visitor through a journey where art, theater, and memory intertwine, highlighting the relationship between painting and excellent craftsmanship, between creative gesture and scenic body.