Two very different current exhibitions look at world-shaping phenomena.
Until July 22, rare medieval and Renaissance manuscripts are on display at the Accademia dei Lincei library in Rome. “The Books that Made Europe,” an exhibition of 180 Arab, Greek, Hebrew and Latin texts, documents the origins of European culture from antiquity to the invention of the printing press. (More information here.)
Until September 25, the Palace of Venaria near Turin, a seventeenth-century former royal palace on the UNESCO World Heritage List, hosts a retrospective of American photojournalist Steve McCurry. Spanning more than 30 years and war zones on multiple continents, with 250 images the exhibition includes unpublished work by McCurry, winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal and other top awards for his daring reporting on the effects of war on the local people and widely known for his 1984 portrait of an Afghan girl that was on the cover of National Geographic. (More information here.)
