The exhibition presents leaders, artists and personalities immortalized by the international photographer Rossano B. Maniscalchi, intertwining art, history and cultural reflection in a visually and emotionally evocative journey.

These intense portraits, previously exhibited abroad inside several prestigious cultural sites, are being exhibited for the first time in the artist's hometown. They provide a powerful snapshot of contemporary identity. Celebrities such as Barack Obama, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Dario Fo, Rita Levi Montalcini, Dalai Lama, Jody Williams, Derek Walcott, Michelangelo Antonioni, Philippe Daverio, and many others are reflected in the faces of emperors, philosophers and mythological figures: each pairing creates a bridge between different and distant eras, constructing a narrative through analogy that is both intimate and collective.

The photographs engage with the marble busts of ancient Rome, offering a visual and conceptual reflection on the power of images and the representation of identity. At the center is the face, sculpted or photographed, which becomes a mirror of time, a manifesto of ideas, a tool of memory, and a vehicle of emotion.
Divided into three thematic sections  - Change, Thought, Authority -, the exhibition invites visitors to pause and observe, questioning what it means to "be remembered" today, how the languages ​​of power and image are changing, and how portraiture, once sculpted in marble, today captured in photography, continues to speak a universal language.