"Palazzo Madama. Italian Art and Craft from the 6th to the 19th Century"

From May 22 to August 24, 2025, the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE (Doma laukums 6, Riga) will host the exhibition “Palazzo Madama. Italian Art and Crafts 6th–19th Centuries” from the collection of the Madama Palace Museum in Turin, created with the support of the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation.

The excellence of Italian style, unanimously admired throughout the world, has its roots in centuries of refinement of ideas and techniques in every field of sumptuary arts. The exhibition presents over 100 masterpieces from workshops and manufactories throughout Italy from the 6th century and late Middle Ages to the 19th century, with particular emphasis on Renaissance art from the 15th and 16th century, providing extensive evidence of the artists’ mastery and genius.

The selection includes Murano glass, Venetian enamels and decorated bindings for the Doges’ documents, Renaissance bronzes and cameos, metalwork from Lombardy, maiolica from Tuscany, porcelain from Naples, textiles and lace, furniture from Piedmont, as well as intricate micro-carvings in wood, coral and ivory.

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About the museum

The Art Museum RIGA BOURSE is an architectural monument of national importance. It was built between 1852 and 1855 in the style of a Venetian Renaissance palazzo symbolising wealth and plenitude. The building was designed by the St. Petersburg architect of German descent – Harald Julius von Bosse (1812–1894). The museum's permanent display consists of Riga’s foreign art collections, which were accumulated over the centuries and now are part of the collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art.

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