Eighteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

Andrea Appiani and Neoclassicism on display at Milan's Palazzo Reale

From September 23, 2025 to January 11, 2026, the Royal Palace in Milan will host an exhibition entirely dedicated to Andrea Appiani (Milan, 1754 - 1817), among the greatest representatives of Italian Neoclassicism. The exhibition project, entitled Ap...
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At the Palace of Caserta, more than 100 works celebrate the role of sovereigns

The Reggia di Caserta will host from December 2025, in the Grand Gallery of the Royal Palace, the exhibition Queens: plots of culture and diplomacy between Naples and Europe. More than 100 works from Italian and international museums and institutions...
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The storming of the Bastille in art: what happened on July 14, 1789?

Imagine a crowd of Parisians on July 14, 1789 as they stormed the Bastille, a now almost disused prison. We then think of all that followed that event, which represented the ultimate breaking point between the people and the absolute monarchy, beginn...
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A major exhibition at the Louvre on Jacques-Louis David, the painter of the revolution and Napoleon

In Paris, the Louvre is planning a major exhibition devoted to Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1748-Brussels, 1825), a great painter associated with the Neoclassical movement, the leading one in Napoleonic France. Curated by Sébastien Allard, Gene...
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Canaletto masterpiece sold at Christie's for £31 million

The Canaletto painting that was going up for auction late this afternoon at Christie's in London was sold for over £30 million. It was a masterpiece, for which there was great expectation: the work, The Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, one ...
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A Polish Queen on the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieskis in Rome since the 1700s

From June 11 through Sept. 21, 2025, the Capitoline Museums will host an exhibition titled A Polish Queen on the Capitoline Hill: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski Royal Family in Rome, the first stage of a new exhibition called Capitoline Hill Crossro...
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An 18th-century masterpiece of cabinetmaking, the Piffetti Library, comes alive in augmented reality at Villa della Regina

The Piffetti Library, an example of Baroque cabinetmaking, is back on view at Villa della Regina in Turin, the place for which it was conceived in the 18th century. It is a virtual restitution, made possible by augmented reality and virtual reality t...
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In France for the first time an exhibition on Duplessis, court portrait painter of Louis XIV

From June 14 to Sept. 28, 2025, the Bibliothèque-musée Inguimbertine in Carpentras, France, will host the first major retrospective devoted to Joseph Siffred Duplessis (Carpentras, 1725 - Versailles, 1802), a central figure of official ...
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