The Vatican Is Hosting an Andy Warhol Exhibition and It Looks Epic

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If you think about religious art, Andy Warhol is not really the first person who springs to mind. However, that is exactly who’s work the Vatican has chosen to display in an exciting contemporary art exhibition.


The Vatican Museums are completing negotiations with Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum as we speak to arrange a 2019 show of the non-conformist Pop artist’s religious works. The exhibition will be on view both in Rome and Pittsburgh and will coincide with the 25th anniversary year of the US museum.

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The curation will focus mainly on the American artist’s Last Supper series (1986), which was of course inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic fresco of the same name. The exhibition will also display a selection of memento mori pieces by Warhol such as silkscreens of skulls, along with a number of films.

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