Is narcissism a primary quality for an artist?
Without narcissism, could an artist experience aesthetic and poetic stimuli?

According to the elegant exhibition The Portrait of the Artist. In the Mirror of Narcissus. The Face, the Mask, the Selfie - curated by Cristina Acidini, Fernando Mazzocca, Francesco Parisi, and Paola Refice at the Museo Civico San Domenico in Forlì - the answer is definitive: narcissism is an undeniably and irrefutably inspiring genius.

Hieronymus Bosch is a contemporary of the illustrious masters of the elegant Renaissance: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raffaello Sanzio, Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino. Why does Bosh have a different language from the latter? Yet they are in the same world.

With a scientific and meticulous method, these two divergent humanities are contained in the exhibition Bosch and another Renaissance, held in Milan, Palazzo Reale from 9 November 2022 until 12 March 2023. The exhibition is curated by Bernard Aikema, Fernando Checa Cremades e Claudio Salsi.