Salon de la Rose+Croix Exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice presents an exhibition exploring the Salon de la Rose+Croix, a series of six annual exhibitions held in Paris between 1892 and 1897. Organized by Joséphin Péladan, a Rosicrucian critic, the Salons featured Symbolist artists blending mythology and spirituality. The exhibition includes about forty works—paintings, lithographs, etchings, gouaches, and woodcuts—by artists such as Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau, Alphonse Osbert, Jean Delville, Alexandre Séon, Marcellin Desboutin, Charles Maurin, Félix Vallotton, and Jan Toorop. Themes include duality of women as saints and sinners, mythological figures like Orpheus, and spiritual transcendence. The exhibition design uses dark red rooms and a soundtrack with music by Satie, Wagner, Debussy, and Chopin, evoking the concerts that accompanied the original Salons. The show runs at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.