Quo Vadis (1903-04, revised in 1920) is the oil painting that marked the finale of the Paris period of Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), a leading Czech artist. The large painting, measuring over two meters in length and width, depicts a scene from a novel in which a young girl kisses a marble statue in an ancient Roman villa. The person peering from behind does not appear in the original novel. Many things surrounding this work, such as its identity and the reason for choosing this scene, have remained shrouded in mystery. This exhibition will reveal the full picture of Quo Vadis, which was missing for a long time until it was discovered in 1979. It will also trace Mucha's creative path leading up to this painting through his representative prints, illustrations, drawings, oil paintings, and jewelry, and will fully introduce the charm of the museum's world-leading Mucha collection, which is one of the museum's prides. In addition, a nearly life-size tapestry woven using Sakai Dantsu, a hand-woven carpet technique handed down in Sakai City, will be on public display for the first time. This will be a new page in the history of the painting that was originally intended to be the original for a carpet, created in America in 1910.

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Special Exhibition "Musha: Mysterious Paintings" | Sakai

Time:	Apr 20–Aug 17, 2025 (UTC+9)
Location:	Alphonse Mucha Museum, Sakai, Sakai-ku, Tadeichō, 1-2-200, Osaka, Japan

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