ROME - The famous Fornarina, one of the most iconic portraits of women of the great genius of Urbino, finally returns home to Palazzo Barberini in Rome for a major exhibition at the National Gallery dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death. .
In place of her, loaned in exchange by the London museum, the Lady with the Squirrel, a masterpiece by Handìs Holbein, which will now return to the United Kingdom, has been exhibited in recent months.
The exchange, the Roman museum emphasizes, is part of the strategy of the director of the Barberini Corsini National Galleries, Flaminia Gennari Santori, who through these initiatives aims to broaden the cultural offer of the institution, while enhancing the collection also abroad.
