Francis Hayez - Finestre sull'Arte

Hayez's three versions of Pietro Rossi together for the first time: what the Pontremoli exhibition looks like

Francesco Hayez's Pontremoli is suspended in the dream of a romantic Middle Ages, the first of Italy, made of immaculate castles and knights, velvet-clad ladies and blazing armor. Hayez, however, had never been to Pontremoli. Or if he was sometimes e...
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Hayez and Romanticism in in Pontremoli with three masterpieces brought together for the first time

From July 25 to Nov. 2, 2025, Pontremoli, a town nestled in theTuscan-Emilian Apennines at the crossroads of Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria, will host a major exhibition event. In the Hall of Mayors of the Municipal Palace, the three versions of...
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Canova and Hayez, Olympus on the Lake: the exhibition at Villa Carlotta

From June 22 to September 30, 2024 at Villa Carlotta in Tremezzina it will be possible to visit L'Olimpo sul lago. Canova, Thorvaldsen, Hayez and the Treasures of the Sommariva Collection, an exhibition curated by Fernando Mazzocca, Maria Angela Prev...
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Inside Hayez's creative process (with a few masterpieces). What the exhibition in Turin looks like

Not since 2016 had we seen an exhibition that chronologically traced the long biography and artistic production of Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 - Milan, 1882): until February of that year, in fact, the Gallerie d'Italia in Piazza Scala in Milan hous...
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Turin, an exhibition on Francesco Hayez at GAM with a hundred works

The Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino (GAM) is dedicating a major exhibition to Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 - Milan, 1882), scheduled from October 17, 2023 to April 1, 2024, and entitled Hayez. The Workshop of the Romantic Pa...
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A masterpiece by Francesco Hayez on display in Pontremoli. It is on loan from the Uffizi

A 19th-century masterpiece on loan from the Uffizi to Pontremoli for the Uffizi Diffusi project. It is the large portrait depicting Count Arese Lucini in prison, painted by the famous Romantic painter Francesco Hayez (Venice 1791 - Milan 1882) and pu...
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The Last Kiss between Romeo and Juliet: the goodbye kiss that was actually a farewell kiss

The kiss between two lovers was for Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 - Milan, 1882) one of his most depicted subjects: Indeed, very famous is the Kiss preserved in the Pinacoteca di Brera, which the painter painted in 1859 on a commission from Count Alf...
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Milan, an exhibition investigates the relationship between the city and Napoleon Bonaparte

To mark the bicentenary of Napoleon's death, the Carlo Orsi Gallery in Milan is hosting the exhibition Napoleon and Milan. Between Reality and Myth - The Image of Napoleon from Liberator to Emperor, a set of works celebrating the figure of the French...
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