Baroque - Finestre sull'Arte

Rome starts special tours to discover Bernini in St. Peter's Basilica

The National Galleries of Ancient Art and the Fabbrica di San Pietro in the Vatican are promoting a calendar of guided tours of St. Peter's Basilica as part of the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the consecration of the new Basilica, which ...
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Rome, major exhibition at Palazzo Barberini on the link between Bernini and Maffeo Barberini

From February 12 to June 14, 2026, in Rome , the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica is hosting the exhibition Bernini e i Barberini, curated by Andrea Bacchi and Maurizia Cicconi, at Palazzo Barberini. The exhibition, held to coincide with the 400th a...
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200 works to tell the story of the Baroque and the twentieth century: the great exhibition of 2026 in Forli

From February 21 to June 28, 2026, the San Domenico Civic Museum in Forli will host the exhibition Baroque. The Grand Theater of Ideas, a major exhibition dedicated to one of the central seasons of European culture and its long influence on modernity...
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Exhibitions 2026: all the previews of the announced exhibitions

Let's start 2026 with previews of the exhibitions that will take us throughout this new year. From Milan to Venice, from Genoa to Turin to Rome, here are 20 exhibitions announced for a 2026 full of great art. 1. Anselm Kiefer, Robert Mapplethorpe, t...
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Baroque in Forlì: 200 masterpieces between the 17th and 20th centuries at the San Domenico Museum

Forli is preparing to host an exhibition dedicated to the Baroque. From February 21 to June 28, 2026, the San Domenico Civic Museum will host Baroque. The Grand Theater of Ideas, an exhibition that will feature about 200 masterpieces from such intern...
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Rome, in 2026 at Palazzo Barberini a major exhibition on the relationship between Bernini and Maffeo Barberini

From February 12 to June 14, 2026, the National Galleries of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini will host the major exhibition Bernini and the Barberini family, curated by Andrea Bacchi and Maurizia Cicconi. The exhibition will explore the privileged r...
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Michael Sweerts, from the vestiges of Rome to the shadows of the East.

He must have been quite a guy, this Sweerts. From a Flemish family ennobled by the textile trade, Andrea, G. De Marchi and Claudio Seccaroni recall today in the catalog of the exhibition, still running in Rome until Jan. 18 at the Accademia di San Lu...
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From baroque to glory, seventeenth-century Milanese sculpture in a volume by Susanna Zanuso

Milan, 17th century. In a period of great cultural and artistic ferment but also strongly marked by the political and social vicissitudes of the time, the capital of the Duchy, at that time under the rule of the Spanish monarchy, stood out within the...
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