Collective exhibition of the finalist artists
Art Competition "Theodoric, called the Great, on the 1500th anniversary of his death.
Was the Mausoleum of Theodoric a funerary monument for the king?"
September 12-19, 2026
Collective exhibition of the finalist artists
Art Competition "Theodoric, called the Great, on the 1500th anniversary of his death.
Was the Mausoleum of Theodoric a funerary monument for the king?"
September 12-19, 2026
“Was it a funerary monument for the king? Of course, but not only that. The great stone blocks of the Mausoleum of Theodoric whisper tales and legends. They speak of a child who was afraid of lightning, was sent as a hostage to Byzantium, then returned, became a powerful ruler, and conquered Italy. A king has friends and enemies, can be generous and ruthless, loves and betrays. In this building, admired for centuries by engineers and architects, painters and poets, his secret is kept. A mystery halfway between the human and the divine, told in sixteen stories, ancient, future, and timeless.”
Text taken from “16 Possible Uses of a Mausoleum”
by Giuseppe Palumbo, Coconino 2019
The Works
The exhibition
CARP Social Promotion Association has announced an art competition to celebrate the 1500th anniversary of the death of the Ostrogoth king, which occurred in Ravenna on August 30, 526 AD.
The exhibition featuring the 12 works selected for the final stage of the art competition "Theodoric, called the Great, on the 1500th anniversary of his death. Was Theodoric's Mausoleum a funerary monument for the king?" will open with the announcement and award ceremony of the competition winners.
The finalist works were: Teodorico by Giovanna Amaducci, Quando cade la Luce by Philippa Armstrong, Luce nella notte dei tempi by Anna Maria Bagnato, Il Grande by Raffaele Cesari, Il bambino che aveva paura dei fulmini by Gian Paolo Chiodi, Dove il tempo si dissolve by Moreno Diana, Genius Loci by Claire Gaffa, Tenta tanto, non temere by Lorenzo Marabini, Il re che temeva solo il cielo by Erica Stanzani, Galeikon by Barbara Taglioni, Teod'orico by Virna Valli, Aurifrisium: il fregio del Mausoleo di Flavius Theodoricus by Adriana Zoudine.
