Exhibitions

Nearly 50 Fayum portraits on display in Rome: a major exhibition featuring rare works

The Fayum portraits—the famous faces painted on funerary panelsin ancient Egypt—are among the most celebrated images of antiquity, but in Italy they are also among the hardest to see, at least all together, given their rarity and fragility. There are...
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Alessio Nebbia: A 20th-Century Mountain Painter Rediscovered in Turin

When snow covers a landscape, it seems to take away rather than add: it erases details, softens colors, alters distances, and makes it harder to distinguish what belongs to observation from what arises from perception. It is above all in this uncerta...
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Heinz Mack Returns to Venice with 36 Paintings: Light and Color from a 95-Year-Old Artist

Now 95 years old, one of Germany’s greatest artists, Heinz Mack (Lollar, 1931), continues to explore the relationship between light, color, and form. It is precisely this exploration—developed by the German artist over more than seventy years o...
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Luigi Russolo returns to Portogruaro (Venice) with *La Musica*, on display in Italy for the first time in twenty years

Luigi Russolo returns to his hometown with an exhibition featuring some eighty works and documents, marking the return to Italy—after twenty years—of *La Musica* (1911), one of his best-known paintings. From October 18, 2026, to February 28, 2027, th...
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Svenja Deininger: Forms Poised Between Abstraction and Figuration at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome

From October 13, 2026, to January 30, 2027, the Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome presents *On Leaning*, an exhibition of new works by the painter Svenja Deininger, focused on a painterly practice that rejects a predetermined starting point and procee...
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The Soul of Marble in Florence: Michelangelo at the Heart of Symbolist Visions

From Michelangelo’s *David* to the sculptures of Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle, and on to the interpretations of Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Leonardo Bistolfi, and Adolfo De Carolis: the Accademia Gallery in Florence is dedicating an exhibi...
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Florence: Two Paintings by the Master from 1416 Are Once Again on Display at the Accademia Gallery Following Restoration

Two paintings attributed to the Master of 1416 will be on display together from October 6, 2026, to March 14, 2027, in the first-floor galleries of the Accademia Gallery in Florence. The Madonna and Child with Saints Peter, Anthony the Abbot, Julian,...
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Bernini, Gentileschi, Rubens: Roman Baroque on Display in Cuneo

From November 20, 2026 , to March 29, 2027, the San Francesco Monumental Complex in Cuneo will host the exhibition *The Age of the Baroque: Bernini, Gentileschi, Rubens*, sponsored by the CRC Foundation and Intesa Sanpaolo. Curated by Maurizia Ciccon...
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The Eternity of Painting: Milan Hosts the First Major Posthumous Retrospective Dedicated to Carlo Maria Mariani

What can painting still convey in an era dominated by the contemporary? This is one of the questions that run through the work of Carlo Maria Mariani (Rome, 1931–New York, 2021), an artist who made art history, memory, and culture the foundation of h...
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Stanislao Di Giugno transforms the chimera into a new entity made of paint and bronze

In mythological tradition, the chimera is a creature composed of parts belonging to different animals: it is, therefore, a hybrid organism in which disparate elements cease to be merely separate fragments and become something new. It is precisely thi...
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The 19th Century as You've Never Seen It Before: Over 100 Paintings in Bologna Marked by the Hours of the Day

What if we could explore the 19th century not by following artistic schools, styles, or nationalities, but simply by following the passing of the hours? This is the idea behind *Un Capolavoro di Giornata*. From dawn to dusk in the 19th century. A Jou...
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Inspiration from Europe: Three Exhibitions in Vicenza Explore Artistic Dialogues Between Italy and Germany, France, and Spain

“Ispirazione Europa: Artistic Dialogues Between the 19th and 20th Centuries” is launching in Vicenza —a new exhibition project sponsored by the City of Vicenza that aims to explore, through art, the formation and evolution of the European spirit fro...
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LIBERE! in Milan: Eighty Years of Women’s Achievements Told Through Photography

From September 26, 2026, to February 7, 2027, Intesa Sanpaolo ’s Gallerie d’Italia – Milan will host LIBERE! 1946–2026. “Women’s Achievements,” an exhibition conceived and curated by Renata Ferri and produced by iO Donna...
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Paintings of Everyday Family Life: Young Robertina Makes Her Debut in Trento

There are objects we look at every day without really seeing them anymore: a package on the kitchen shelf, a smartphone, a product bought at the supermarket, a cosmetic, a souvenir, the elements that appear in the background of a photograph. They are...
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The Dynasties of Europe at Villa Carlotta on Lake Como: Artworks and Documents Tell Its Story

At Villa Carlotta in Tremezzina on Lake Como, the history of the estate is intertwined with that of some of the major European dynasties of the 19th century. From September 18 to December 8, 2026, the Villa Carlotta Foundation presents the exhibitio...
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Ileana Sonnabend and the Contemporary Art Boom: 50 Works on Display in Rome

She was one of the most influential figures in the recent history of contemporary art, who recognized the value of the most innovative artistic explorations well in advance and fostered a dialogue between the European and American art scenes. She is ...
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