The exhibition L’Ottocento a Villa Farnesina recounted the Villa’s transformations after the Unification of Italy, between urban innovations and decorative adaptations. Through figures such as the Duke of Ripalda and Count Primoli, photographs and testimonies showed the dialogue between Renaissance frescoes and new nineteenth-century sensibilities.

In the three-year period 2019-2021, Villa Farnesina celebrated Leonardo, Raphael and Dante with The Triptych of Italian Ingenuity, culminating in the exhibition of Fabrizio Plessi’s work Bucare il mare, a dialogue between contemporary art and great Renaissance cycles.