The Capitoline Museums, at Palazzo Nuovo (on the first-floor galleries), presents “Cartier and the Myth”, showcasing some of the most prestigious creations of the Maison Cartier in an evocative dialogue with the ancient sculptures of the Palazzo Nuovo collection.

This is the first time that Palazzo Nuovo is hosting a temporary exhibition.

The creations of Maison Cartier, mostly drawn from the Cartier Heritage Collection, are displayed alongside the marble sculptures from Cardinal Alessandro Albani’s collection—the original core of Palazzo Nuovo’s museum collection—and a selection of precious ancient artifacts from the Capitoline Superintendency, prestigious Italian and international institutions, and private collections.

From the mid-19th century to the present day, Cartier has studied, drawn inspiration from, and reinterpreted the aesthetic and symbolic repertoire of ancient Greece and Rome, transforming millennia-old motifs into unique, modern jewelry.

Cartier and the Myth at the Capitoline Museums is a fascinating journey into the aesthetic and formal universe of Maison Cartier, in continuous dialogue with the exceptional collection of ancient sculptures at the Capitoline Museums. The exhibition explores how classical antiquity has inspired its most iconic creations in ever-changing ways, reconstructing intellectual and cultural atmospheres and evoking the evolution of imagery linked to Greece and Rome throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.