Une curation de Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager chez Galerie Lo Scalo – The Vatican serves as an architectural and spiritual epicenter, symbolizing institutional power, sacred mystery, and centuries of human devotion. Psychologically, its colossal Baroque geometry, like Bernini’s colonnade, evokes awe, confronting the viewer with the friction between spiritual transcendence and temporal authority. Since 1950, contemporary artists have treated this enclave not just as a religious site, but as a space for psychological and political deconstruction. Francis Bacon famously dismantled papal authority in his visceral masterpiece Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), capturing an existential crisis within the sacred walls. Gerhard Richter later explored the meditative, human dimensions of the institution in his portrait Pope John Paul II (2005). In photography, the world-famous Henri Cartier-Bresson captured the atmospheric mystery and human scale of the holy site in his timeless image The Vatican (1951). This selection explores the Vatican as a living theater of history and faith.