Castelvecchio Museum hosts Titian exhibition from 31 October

Castelvecchio Museum (Museo di Castelvecchio) in Verona will host La Venere di Tiziano e il Rinascimento musicale from 31 October 2026 to 31 January 2027. The exhibition brings Titian’s Venus with Dog and Organist from Madrid’s Prado into a programme centred on the relationship between Renaissance painting and music.

Titian’s Venus arrives at Castelvecchio Museum on 31 October

The exhibition is scheduled for Sala Boggian and is promoted by the Municipality of Verona, its Civic Museums and the museum itself, with the Prado and the Accademia Filarmonica di Verona as scientific partners. It is being developed with Verona’s Conservatory and co-produced by Civita Mostre e Musei. The official exhibition programme gives the dates, venue and participating institutions.

Titian’s painting, Venus with Dog and Organist, dates from about 1550 and measures 148 by 217 centimetres, according to the programme. It will be shown with works including Tintoretto’s Contest of the Muses and the Pierides and Marietta Robusti’s Self-Portrait with a Spinet. The display is planned to bring together around 30 paintings, sculptures, musical instruments, books and original scores.

The exhibition also extends beyond silent display. Classes from the Conservatory’s Early Music Department are due to perform in Sala Boggian on 21 November, 5 December and 19 December 2026, and 9 January 2027. These dates connect the musical subject of the loan with live performance in the same museum room.

Castelvecchio Museum links a Prado loan to Scarpa’s rooms

The castle was built between 1354 and 1356 as the principal military monument of Verona’s Della Scala dynasty. It now houses medieval, Renaissance and later art in 29 rooms, with collections ranging from paintings and sculpture to archaeological finds, weapons, ceramics and goldsmiths’ work.

Its present museum character is closely associated with the restoration carried out in the late 1950s with director Licisco Magagnato and architect Carlo Scarpa. The complex includes the Royal Palace Court, Arms Court, keep and fortified bridge. This setting gives the 2026 exhibition a specific historical context: a Prado painting about music will be placed within a museum whose architecture was itself reshaped as an integrated display of art and historic fabric. Verona’s visitor authority describes the museum and its Scarpa restoration.

Verona’s 2026 exhibition adds concerts to the Prado loan

The programme places painted instruments beside real historical instruments, including cornetts, Renaissance flutes and madrigal books. The official listing also identifies further loans and material from the Uffizi Galleries, the Accademia Filarmonica, Bologna’s International Museum and Library of Music, and Verona’s Civic and Capitular Libraries.

The exhibition therefore treats the Titian loan as the starting point for a wider account of sound, image and learning in the sixteenth century. For visitors, the dated concerts offer a second reason to note the programme beyond the opening of the display itself.

Visiting Castelvecchio Museum: what travellers from Western Europe should know

• La Venere di Tiziano e il Rinascimento musicale runs from 31 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 at Sala Boggian, Castelvecchio Museum, Verona.
• The exhibition is presented inside the museum, with the related concerts in Sala Boggian on 21 November, 5 December and 19 December 2026, and 9 January 2027.
• The address is Corso Castelvecchio 2 in Verona. The complex includes the museum rooms, courts, keep and fortified bridge.
• The site combines historic masonry, courts and a bridge with galleries. Visitors should expect an architectural route rather than a single modern exhibition hall.
• Italian is the official language and the national currency is the euro.

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Frequently asked questions about Castelvecchio Museum

When does La Venere di Tiziano take place at Castelvecchio Museum?

The exhibition runs from 31 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 in Sala Boggian.

What is Castelvecchio Museum?

It is Verona’s civic museum in a castle built between 1354 and 1356, with collections spanning medieval, Renaissance and later art.

Where is Castelvecchio Museum and how do you get there?

The museum is at Corso Castelvecchio 2 in Verona, within the historic complex beside its fortified bridge.