Göttlich! (Divine!)

In its new major special exhibition, the Diocesan Museum is focussing on a topical subject, namely the power of images over people's lives. And this is based on one of the most important epochs in the history of art: the Italian Renaissance.

The masterpieces created during this period have become engraved in our collective visual memory like almost nothing else. If you try to characterise these works, you quickly realise that it is a time in which something shifts. God is not becoming smaller, but closer. In the Italian Renaissance, the divine loses its aloofness, but not its dignity.

The exhibition therefore centres on the question: what is man, what is the individual, what is the relationship between people and what is their relationship to the divine?

This new view of God and the world is surprisingly evident in the high-calibre loans from important Italian museums on display in Freising. The exhibition brings together over 60 works of art from 27 museums and collections, including paintings, sculptures, small works of art and reliefs from the early Renaissance to the beginning of Mannerism, by leading Italian Renaissance artists such as Sandro Botticelli, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Filippo Lippi and many more.

Last edited on 19.09.2025