With the new exhibition Tesori d’oriente, curated by Pedro Moura Carvalho, the Fondazione Franco Maria Ricci offers a careful selection of artifacts, extraordinary examples of 16th and 17th-century decorative art, some never before exhibited, coming from prestigious Italian and Portuguese private collections and some museums. Pearl, ivory, precious stones and other precious materials make up the rich, historiated objects that will parade between the rooms and between the pages of the homonymous volume published by Franco Maria Ricci, a catalog of the exhibition enriched by the texts of Carvalho himself.

It is a story that starts from afar when in the Renaissance refined works of art made in Asia with exotic materials come for the first time in Europe as a result of colonization, and the masterly skill of local artisans arouses the wonder of merchants, travelers, and scholars.

The exhibition offers a journey through the Renaissance between East and West, which will allow visitors to admire objects finely crafted in ivory, pearl, hard stones. The exhibition also aims to recount for the first time the complex commercial and cultural relations between the Asian territories colonized by the Portuguese, during the era of great discoveries, of which Portugal itself was the protagonist, the refined Indian factories and European collectors during two centuries of history.

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