The Bracco Group brings to Osaka the portrait of the young Japanese Itō Mancho painted by Domenico Tintoretto in 1585 and kept in the Trivulzio Foundation Collection in Milan. The painting guides the visitor experience of Padiglione Italia throughout the six months of the exhibition. The figure of Itō Mancho, head of the first Japanese diplomatic mission sent to Renaissance Europe, is of great symbolic importance in the cultural relations between Italy and Japan. 

The work is accompanied by a video narrative that explores the detailed non-invasive scientific campaign of diagnostic investigations promoted by the Bracco Foundation and curated by a team of researchers from universities and realities of excellence, including the CDI - Centro Diagnostico Italiano. Art and science have always been a winning combination, and for years we have made the Group's expertise in diagnostic imaging available for the analysis and restoration of Italy's cultural heritage.