Caterina Di Giacomo is a highly prestigious scholar and art historian. She was, among other things, director of the Regional Museum of Messina, the MuMe, until 2019. She experienced firsthand, and in truth gave a fundamental impulse together with the then regional councilor for Culture Carlo Vermiglio, the fundamental phase of the inauguration and opening of a magnificent rediscovered place, which is now one of the most important and engaging exhibition structures in Southern Italy. The new headquarters became reality with a great deal of arrangement and finishing work by a team of experts between December 2016 and June 2017. With her we discussed the Ecce Homo tablet by Antonello da Messina recently purchased from Italy. And the universal anthology of the provenance of our great, absolute genius, so artistically devoted to Beauty, to depth, to light, authentically European who knew the Flemish, would be enough to understand where this work should be definitively placed, given that in recent times a real “hunt for the most suitable location” has been unleashed from many quarters.
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