Eighteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

An exhibition in Macerata compares portraits from the 1700s and contemporary portraits.

From June 28, 2024 to January 12, 2025, the Civic Museums of Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata presents the exhibition Vis-à-vis, a reflection on eighteenth-century and contemporary portraiture, curated by Elsa Barbieri, Massimo Francucci and Gi...
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Modena, at BPER Bank Gallery an exhibition on still lifes between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The BPER Banca Gallery in Modena presents the exhibition The Enchantment of the Real. Fragments of the Everyday in Still Life between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, open to the public free of charge from April 5 to June 30, 2024. Curated b...
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Idea and form in Luigi Spina's photographic exhibition in dialogue with Canova

From April 20 to Sept. 29, the Gypsotheca Antonio Canova Museum in Possagno is hosting the exhibition "Canova Quattro Tempi" by Luigi Spina. The story is the result of four photographic campaigns that began in 2019 and resulted in as many publication...
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TEFAF, Benappi brings a masterpiece by Pierre Subleyras. Hopes for an Italian museum purchase

A few months after the publication of Nicolas Lesur 's monograph devoted to French painter Pierre Subleyras (Saint Gilles, 1699 - Rome, 1749), the Benappi Fine Art gallery in London, directed by Filippo Benappi and Valentina Vico, exhibited Subleyras...
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Nineteenth-century Bolognese on display at Palazzo Fava with more than 100 works by 30 artists

The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, in collaboration with Genus Bononiae, presents for an exhibition featuring major works of 19th-century Bolognese art from its Art and History Collections. The exhibition entitled Da Felice Giani a Luigi S...
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The Fasti of Elizabeth Farnese: mundane-political chronicle of an eighteenth-century royal wedding

A memorable undertaking for a memorable wedding. One could summarize thus, in seven words, the Fasti di Elisabetta Farnese cycle, the series of paintings that was commissioned from Ilario Mercanti known as the Spolverini (Parma, 1657 - 1734) on the o...
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Louvre acquires Chardin's Basket of Strawberries thanks to donations from the public

The Louvre succeeds in its bid to acquire the Basket of Woodland Strawberries, a masterpiece by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (Paris, 1699 - 1779), which had ended up on the market last year, sold in an Artcurial auction for 24 million euros (a...
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In Aragon in the footsteps of Goya, from Fuendetodos to Zaragoza.

The largest and most famous nucleus of works by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, 1746 - Bordeaux, 1828) is housed at the Prado Museum in Madrid: we all have in mind the Maja vestida and the Maja desnuda, Saturn devouring his ch...
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