Also in 2025, Italo reaffirms its commitment to promoting culture and art by supporting sustainable mobility to Italy’s main cultural destinations. From March 22 to July 20, 2025, two extraordinary exhibitions will open to the public at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara: a monographic exhibition on Alphonse Mucha, one of the fathers of Art Nouveau, in the 11 rooms of the Rossetti wing, and a dossier exhibition on Giovanni Boldini, focused on the theme of female portraiture, in the 3 rooms of the Tisi wing.
Both the Czech Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) and the Ferrara-born Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) rose to fame in Belle Époque Paris, achieving international success. Mucha arrived in the French capital in the autumn of 1887, when Boldini was already well known and beginning to focus primarily on portraiture.
Mucha undoubtedly admired Boldini’s works displayed at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, where he too was involved in exhibitions and projects, including the decoration of the Bosnia-Herzegovina pavilion commissioned by the Austrian government.
Both artists were extraordinary interpreters of feminine beauty and charm, each shaping the ideal woman of their time in their own way—portraying figures who were alluring and seductive, elegant and energetic, emancipated and in control of their own destiny.
