Genoa - Finestre sull'Arte

Iconographic Particularities in Seventeenth-Century Genoa. The Extraordinary and Everyday Exhibition.

The cramped exhibition spaces of the Palazzo della Meridiana in Genoa are not easy to manage in order to set up an exhibition within them: the risk of piling too many works on the walls due to the curators' fear of creating an incomplete project is j...
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Late Baroque masterpiece from Genoa rediscovered: Francesco Schiaffino's Immacolata

A villa in the Turin area, a late 19th-century photograph discovered by chance, the determination of two young antiquarians. And, above all, the rediscovery of a masterpiece of 18th-century Genoese sculpture that, after more than a century, h...
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Bernardo Strozzi's cook: a work of pilgrim ingenuity

His works will be "highly esteemed in every time and place" thanks to the "perfection in the use of brushes." This is how Raffaele Soprani, in Lives de pittori scoltori et, architetteti genovesi (1674), opens the medallion dedicated to Bernardo Stroz...
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The patronage of Andrea Doria

In 1540 the sculptor Leone Leoni (Arezzo, 1509 - Milan, 1590) was working as an engraver at the papal mint. The artist had embarked early on a brilliant career, played out in various Italian centers and a prelude to the international success that wou...
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Rubens and the Palaces of Genoa: beyond the Superb Mastery of the Brush

"Color is not stone." These simple words, attributed to Pieter Paul Rubens by Jacob Burckhardt, allow us to understand the neuralgic centrality held by the "Father of the Baroque," but, at the same time, they might limit the analysis of a personality...
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Genoa, new lighting for Adoration of the Magi, Grechetto masterpiece

To mark the beginning of the Christmas season in Genoa, the Fondazione Spinola presents the new lighting of one of the city's masterpieces, theAdoration of the Shepherds by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione known as Il Grechetto (Genoa, 1609 - Mantua, 1...
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Genoa, guided tours to discover the churches of the Palazzi dei Rolli

The appointment with The Churches of the Palazzi dei Rolli is back in Genoa. From January 5 to 8, 2023, there will be an opportunity to discover the treasures of art and devotion kept in the city's churches, which are closely linked to the UNESCO Wor...
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Five minutes alone in front of a Van Gogh. Palazzo Ducale in Genoa reintroduces the emotional formula

Palazzo Ducale in Genoa unveiled the program for its new exhibition season, the first featuring Beppe Costa as president who succeeded Luca Bizzarri in the post. In addition to exhibitions dedicated to photography with Sabine Weiss (Nov. 18, 2022 - ...
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