Brescia - Finestre sull'Arte

Pinturicchio's Madonna of Peace and textile art in dialogue at Brescia Diocesan Museum

The Diocesan Museum of Brescia offers a symbolic reflection through the dialogue between great Renaissance painting and textile art. It happens with Adoremus, one of the most anticipated events in the museum's exhibition calendar, which, for its fift...
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Brescia, start of restoration of Moretto's Assumption in the Duomo Vecchio

On Monday, November 24, 2025, thestart of the restoration of the large altarpiece depicting theAssumption of the Virgin by Alessandro Bonvicino, known as il Moretto (Brescia, 1492/1495 - 1554), a masterpiece created between 1524 and 1526 and placed f...
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Anita Garibaldi's dress on display at Brescia's Museo del Risorgimento

Fondazione BresciaMusei and the Municipality of Brescia, in collaboration with the State Museums of the Republic of San Marino and under the patronage of the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento in Turin, present an important exhibition dedica...
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Excavation work begins in the eastern sector of Brescia's Roman theater, after months of preliminary investigation

Almost 30 years after the last archaeological campaign, the archaeological excavation of Brescia's Roman theater will officially begin on Monday, October 27, 2025, after months of preliminary investigations and preparatory activities. The area will o...
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At Brescia's Museum of the Risorgimento, four paths in VR to tell the story of the 19th century

The history of the Risorgimento meets virtual reality. Starting in October 2025, the Brescia Museum of the Risorgimento "Lioness of Italy" will offer four new immersive tours, brought together in the Risorgimento VR Experience project. This is an ini...
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Brescia Musei Foundation, the Risorgimento told through Virtual Reality

Fondazione Brescia Musei, in collaboration with Way Experience and Beside, presents the new immersive storytelling project dedicated to the enhancement of the Collections of the Museo del Risorgimento Leonessa d'Italia, reopened in 2023 after eight y...
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Brescia, Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo acquires important work by Giacomo Francesco Cipper

Brescia 's Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo enriches its permanent collection with a new masterpiece. It is the Gypsy Concert by Giacomo Francesco Cipper (Feldkirch, 1664 - Milan, 1736), a naturalized Austrian-Italian artist active in the late 17th and fi...
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Over forty years of Hermann Nitsch's research on display in Brescia.

In 1975, in his Prinzendorf Castle, Hermann Nitsch (Vienna, 1938 - Mistelbach, 2022) stagedAktion No. 50: a performance in which a naked, blindfolded man evoked the sacrifice of the Crucifixion, exposing his body to the pain of the world, a reflectio...
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