Genoa - Finestre sull'Arte

Genoa, Palazzo Spinola acquires Salvatore Castiglione's Adoration of the Shepherds

Beginning Dec. 18, 2025, the National Gallery of Liguria will expand its exhibition with a major new acquisition: theAdoration of the Shepherds by Salvatore Castiglione, painted around the mid-17th century. The work, purchased by the Ministry of Cult...
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Genoa, Mathias Stom's Nativity returns to life: painting discovered a year ago restored

Genoa rediscovers a forgotten part of its artistic heritage through the return to light of the Nativity of Jesus Christ, a splendid painting by the Dutch painter Mathias Stom, or Mathias Stomer (Amersfoort, c. 1600 - Sicily, after 1650), a central fi...
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Nomellini and the restless city: how Genoa ignited Italian symbolism. What the exhibition looks like

The history of Italian pointillism passes through Genoa. Pass through Genoa the social unrest that would later spill over into the arts. Passing through Genoa were the first Symbolist hotbeds that animated Italian painting in the latter part of the 1...
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Genoa, the Rolli Days of the Nineteenth Century closes with 59 thousand attendees. All the numbers from the event

In Genoa , the fall edition of Rolli Days 2025, dedicated to the theme Genoa and the Nineteenth Century. Art through Change, closed with a more than positive balance: about 59,000 visitors participated in the days that, between Friday, October 17 and...
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From baroque splendor to oceanic routes: the Rolli Days 2025 tells the story of Genoa on the sea

An important edition, the fall 2025 edition of Rolli Days, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 20 and Sunday, Sept. 21, the event by which Genoa's historic palaces open their doors to the public through guided tours curated by scientific popularizers and c...
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Giulio Romano in Genoa: Saint Stephen's altarpiece and cartoon from the Vatican Museums on display

Genoa welcomes an exhibition dedicated to one of the great protagonists of Italian Mannerism, Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi de' Iannuzzi; Rome, 1499 - Mantua, 1546). In fact, from September 20, 2025 to January 17, 2026, theLigustica Academy of Fine Art...
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Sara Armella is the new president of Genoa's Palazzo Ducale: she is the first woman to lead the institution

Sara Armella is the new president of Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura in Genoa. The Board of Directors has elected, for the first time, a woman to lead the cultural institution. A lawyer and one of the leading international experts in custom...
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Genoa, precious fresco by Giovanni Andrea Carlone found: sole survivor of spectacular vaulting

An important fragment of a fresco depicting St. Ignatius by Giovanni Andrea Carlone (Genoa, 1639 - 1697) has been rediscovered in Genoa .This valuable find represents a significant development in studies of late 17th-century Genoese Baroque painting....
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