Eighteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

Pontremoli Baroque 2026: two days among villas, palaces and hidden treasures

The countdown begins for Pontremoli Barocca 2026, the event that returns to introduce the public to the great concentration of Baroque art in the city and Lunigiana. Online presales are already available, while the two days of extraordinary openings ...
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At MIC Faenza an exhibition on the porcelain of the Hausmalers, the painters at home in the 18th century

From Jan. 25 to Feb. 22, 2026, MIC Faenza 's Project Room is hosting the exhibition The Porcelain of the Hausmalers in Europe in the Eighteenth Century, curated by Alessandro Biancalana, dedicated to one of the most fascinating and least conventional...
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The gipsoteca that isn't and won't be there: the plaster casts of the Carrara Academy still without a museum

For decades in Carrara, there has been an ongoing attempt to find an exhibition venue that can permanently house one of Italy's most important plaster cast collections: the plaster cast collection of the Academy of Fine Arts. Retracing, albeit briefl...
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The dream of Villa Cordellina Lombardi, where Tiepolo's genius overcame decay

Dust, damp patches, dirt encrustations, cobwebs, walls covered with lime, Giambattista Tiepolo's frescoes hidden by heavy metal grates. Those who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, had entered Villa Cordellina, a splendid neo-Palladian resid...
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Art treasures from the 16th to the 18th century on display at Campori Castle in Soliera (Modena)

From Dec. 6, 2025 to Jan. 18, 2026, the Campori Castle in Soliera (Modena) will host the exhibition Art Treasures at the Castle from the 16th to the 18th century, an exhibition project that interweaves local history, collecting and art-historical res...
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Louvre, renovated and refurbished galleries devoted to Italian and Spanish paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The galleries devoted to Italian and Spanish paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries at the Louvre Museum in Paris have been reopened and completely renovated. The layout has been redesigned to take into account new acquisitions and loans from other...
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Tiepolo and Pellegrini: Venetian light on display at Brescia's Casa Museo Zani

Casa Museo Zani in Brescia opens its doors from December 12, 2025 to April 6, 2026 for an exhibition that focuses on the role of light in eighteenth-century Venetian painting through comparisons between Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Venice, 1675 - 174...
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Wonders of the Grand Tour at Milan's Poldi Pezzoli Museum with works by Panini and Ozpetek

The Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan will open its halls, from January 30 to May 4, 2026, to Wonders of the Grand Tour, an exhibition conceived by Alessandra Quarto and curated by Lavinia Galli of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum and Xavier F. Salomon of theMus...
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