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From\u00a020<\/strong>\u00a0January to 22 February 2026<\/b>, the Galleria Borghese, in collaboration with the\u00a0Asian Art Museum of Turin<\/span>, will host\u00a0two extraordinary works by the Mongolian artist Zanabazar<\/b>, presenting an unprecedented dialogue between East and West\u00a0under the sign of \u201cglobal baroque.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

In the century of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the absolute genius of European Baroque \u2013 sculptor, painter, and architect, whose ideal home is today the Galleria Borghese thanks to the patronage of Cardinal Scipione Borghese \u2013 Asia, too, saw the rise of a figure of comparable stature: Zanabazar (1635\u20131723).<\/p>\n

Born in the heart of the Asian steppe, within one of the largest empires ever built by humankind, Eshidorji belonged to the noble lineage of Genghis Khan. Renowned by\u00a0his spiritual name, Zanabazar<\/b>, he was recognized as \u00d6nd\u00f6r Gegeen, \u201cHis Holiness the Enlightened One\u201d: the first Khutuktu Jetsundamba, the title of the highest religious authority of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia, venerated as the\u00a0reincarnation of one of the original five hundred disciples of the Buddha<\/b>.<\/p>\n

An exceptionally charismatic spiritual leader, Zanabazar was also a brilliant linguist and, above all,\u00a0the greatest Mongolian sculptor of the early modern period<\/b>. To him and to his disciples we owe works profoundly inspired by travels and periods of residence in Tibetan monasteries, revered as sacred objects in places of worship and in the temples he founded throughout Mongolia. Among these,\u00a0the representations of the Taras<\/b>\u00a0stand out\u00a0for their exceptionally high aesthetic value<\/b>: female manifestations of the Buddha, deities associated with protection, liberation, and the inner states of being.<\/p>\n

Zanabazar succeeded in spreading Buddhism in Mongolia on an unprecedented scale, making it accessible to ordinary believers. His aim was to create sculptures capable of speaking directly to the eye and the soul: natural, harmonious forms, \u201cwarm to the eye,\u201d as the Mongols would describe them.<\/p>\n

Bernini and Zanabazar left an indelible mark on their respective cultures<\/b>, the former in Europe, the latter in Asia. Both inaugurated new artistic languages, developing innovative visions and unprecedented methods for reinterpreting traditional themes and subjects, creating models destined to profoundly influence subsequent generations. Two distant worlds, a single creative force capable of changing the history of art.<\/p>\n

The two works on display \u2013 a refined\u00a0Green Tara<\/b>\u00a0and a\u00a0bronze sculptural self-portrait of Zanabazar himself enthroned<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 come from the\u00a0Chinggis Khaan\u00a0<\/span>National Museum in Ulan Bator and are presented to the public in a context of dialogue and comparison without precedent. For the first time, works by this artist reach Europe and Italy; for the first time in history, visitors to a Western museum can experience these presences and their aesthetic and\u00a0formal contiguity with our own artistic heritage<\/b>, bearing witness to a new and richly promising encounter.<\/p>\n

The project ideally\u00a0originates from the exhibition\u00a0<\/b>\u201cGlobal Baroque. The World in Rome at the Time of Bernini\u201d<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/b>(4 April\u201313 July 2025), produced in collaboration with the Scuderie del Quirinale and curated by Francesca Cappelletti and Francesco Freddolini. That exhibition highlighted\u00a0the profoundly transcultural character of seventeenth-century Rome<\/b>, shaped by commercial exchanges, diplomatic relations, and the travels of artists and religious figures, revealing a dense network of connections that anticipated contemporary globalization.<\/p>\n

Building on this insight, Galleria Borghese has developed\u00a0a project without precedent<\/b>, exploring\u00a0the complexity of relationships between figures and artifacts seemingly worlds apart in historical, geographical, and technical terms, yet surprisingly close in creative spirit<\/b>\u00a0and in their ability to shape the future of the arts in these two remote regions of the world. This, too\u2014and above all\u2014is the spirit of \u201cglobal baroque.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the public,\u00a0it is a unique opportunity: to admire works usually kept tens of thousands of kilometres away, brought together for the first time as expressions of a shared historical moment.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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