Bologna - Finestre sull'Arte

Bologna, Basilica of San Petronio opens for first time to secular contemporary art with Joan Crous

For the first time,secular contemporary art is making its entrance into the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna: starting Saturday, April 26, on the anniversary of the bombing of Guernica (1937) during the Spanish Civil War at the hands of German and...
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New life for the Roman theater of Claterna (Bologna), returned to the community

A small glass necklace in vivid colors - green, white and red - depicting a theatrical mask: perhaps missed by a bystander two thousand years ago, it is now one of the most fascinating symbols of the latest excavation campaign in the Roman Theater of...
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Ludovico Carracci's Annunciation on loan from Bologna to Capodimonte as distinguished guest

From March 25 to June 15, 2025, the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte welcomes Ludovico Carracci 's 1584Annunciation, which has come on loan from the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna as an illustrious guest. In the painting, the Virgin is caught in t...
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"Here Are New Discoveries on Guido Reni and Bolognese Painting." Interview with scholar Giulia Iseppi

The recent exhibition on Guido Reni at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna(La favola di Atalanta. Guido Reni e i poeti, which ended last Feb. 16) introduced important new information on the Bolognese artist and, in general, on the artistic environmen...
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Bologna, unveiled a new mural dedicated to Lucio Dalla. It is entitled Happiness

A new mural dedicated to Lucio Dalla, created by artist Kotè, has been unveiled in Bologna. The work, entitled Felicità (Happiness), was unveiled yesterday, March 4, on theanniversary of the great singer-songwriter's birth, and was crea...
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Farewell to Jack Vettriano: he was found lifeless in his Nice apartment

Jack Vettriano is leaving us: the Scottish painter, now the protagonist of an ongoing exhibition at Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna curated by Francesca Bogliolo, organized and realized by Chiara Campagnoli, Deborah Petroni and Rubens Fogacci of Palla...
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Bologna, Alfredo Pirri transforms Palazzo Boncompagni into a living work of art

Until April 30, 2025 Palazzo Boncompagni hosts Alfredo Pirri. Ritratto di Palazzo, an exhibition conceived and created by the artist with works mostly made specifically for the sixteenth-century Bolognese palace, one of the architectural jewels of th...
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In Bologna, at Palazzo Pallavicini, an exhibition entirely dedicated to Jack Vettriano

From February 26 to July 2025, the rooms of Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna will host an exhibition entirely dedicated to the celebrated Scottish artist Jack Vettriano. Among the painters most appreciated by the public, both Italian and international,...
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