This exhibition of paintings belonging to the Banca Popolare di Vicenza group includes masterpieces by Lippi, Bellini, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Bassano, Tiepolo and other great works painted between the 1400s and the 1900s, recovered on international markets and returned to Italy to become a part of the country's artistic heritage once again.

The more than 100 masterpieces on display, presented for the first time in Rome at the Fondazione Memmo, trace five hundred years of Italian painting with a focus on the Venetian and Tuscan schools.

The paintings come from the Picture Gallery at Palazzo Thiene, the historic offices of the Banca Popolare di Vicenza, from the Palazzo degli Alberti Gallery, headquarters of the Cassa di Risparmio di Prato, and from the Banca Nuova's Palermo collection.

The masterpieces are shown alongside works from great Italian and foreign museums in order to highlight the cultural and scientific significance of the "return", and to draw attention to the importance of their recovery.