“Eternal beauty” is the exhibition opened by Italian artist Mimmo Jodice, one of the best European photographers, today at the age of 88, at the National Historical Museum, with 52 photographs of 17 workss of Antonio Canova, one of the greatest neoclassical sculptors!

The photographer Mimmo Jodice, confesses in a documentary, that the public who is confronted with the image brought to life by him and has the opportunity to penetrate into his thoughts, in the artist’s intention to convey these marble sculptures ‘like flesh’… wrapped in black and white aesthetics.

From Aphrodite, Cupid, Hebe and other mythological, but also historical figures like Bonaparte, Jodice proposes to the public these photographs of 17 sculptures, fixed from different angles, aiming at conveying not simply just a beautiful image, but works that talk, depth of thought and emotions.The exhibition will remain open until February 28.

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