Divisionism - Finestre sull'Arte

Postmacchiaioli and Divisionists on display in Livorno (with a rediscovered masterpiece by Renato Natali)

Tuscan Postmacchiaioli and Divisionists are the protagonists of an exhibition at the 800/900 Art Studio Gallery in Livorno, which is organizing an exhibition at its headquarters in Via Roma 67 from December 2, 2023 to January 20, 2024, to display som...
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For eighty cents! The hard work of the mondine in Angelo Morbelli's masterpiece

On January 18, 1895, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo wrote to Angelo Morbelli (Alessandria, 1853 - Milan, 1919) to congratulate him on his progress with the work the artist was making at the time, his masterpiece Per ottanta centesimi!, now preserved in...
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Benvenuto Benvenuti's tower of Calafuria, the visionary evocation of an emotion

The Calafuria watchtower suddenly appears among the rocks as one descends along the Aurelia in that wonderful stretch that, having left Livorno and passed the Antignano coastline, skirts the cliffs just below Montenero and leads toward the village of...
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Livorno hosts major exhibition on Vittore Grubicy, artist and intellectual

From April 8 to July 10, the Museum of the City of Livorno is dedicating a major exhibition to a great late 19th-century artist and intellectual, Vittore Grubicy de Dragon (Milan, 1851 - 1920): entitled Vittore Grubicy. An Intellectual-Artist and His...
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GAM in Milan showcases the greatest artists of Divisionism

From November 19, 2021 to March 6, 2022, GAM | Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano offers the exhibition Divisionism. 2 collections, curated by Giovanna Ginex in collaboration with GAM. The exhibition aims to illustrate the characteristic features of t...
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Major exhibition on Italian Divisionism reopens in Novara, with new features

On October 24, the major exhibition Divisionism. The Revolution of Light: the exhibition was scheduled from November 23, 2019 to April 12, 2020, but due to the health emergency it had been closed early. It was decided to reopen it, in a Rewind versio...
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When Angelo Morbelli painted the abandonment and despair of the elderly at the Pio Albergo Trivulzio

When one admires a painting whose protagonists are elderly people segregated in a hospice, what one is contemplating is "not a normal aspect of our culture, so to speak," wrote art historian Michael F. Zimmermann a few years ago, speaking of the ...
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In Novara a major exhibition on pointillism with all the protagonists, from Morbelli to Pellizza da Volpedo

From November 23, 2019 to April 5, 2020, the Visconteo Sforzesco Castle in Novara is hosting the exhibition Divisionism. The Revolution of Light, which has an ambitious goal: "to be the most important exhibition dedicated to Divisionism realized in r...
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