Liguria - Finestre sull'Arte

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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Invasive tour groups? Liguria guides propose regulation

Liguria, one of Italy's most attractive regions for international tourism, has long been at the center of a heated debate on flow management-just think of the long-standing problems of overcrowding in Cinque Terre. Now the main trade associations rep...
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In Lerici, the restored Villa Rezzola Garden, among the most beautiful English gardens in eastern Liguria, reopens.

From May 24, 2025, FAI will open to the public the completely restored and enhanced Villa Rezzola Garden in Lerici. It is one of the most evocative English gardens in eastern Liguria, overlooking the Golfo dei Poeti. Villa Rezzola is an ancient hist...
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Genoa, a new national museum is born: Palazzo Raggio, purchased by the Ministry of Culture

An important new museum is born in Genoa . The Ministry of Culture has in fact purchased Palazzo Raggio in Largo della Zecca in the Ligurian capital: it will become home to the National Gallery of Liguria now housed on the second and third floors of ...
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"Ministry's challenge? Growing smaller museums." Alessandra Guerrini (Museums Liguria) speaks.

"The challenge is to grow the smaller museums, to make them the hubs on the territories of the National Museum System." This, according to Alessandra Guerrini, head of the new Regional Directorate National Museums Liguria, is the main goal of the lat...
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Porto Venere, opens new museum at Varignano Roman villa

On Saturday, March 15, 2025, the Regional Directorate National Museums of Liguria opens the doors of the new museum at the Roman Villa of Varignano, in the Le Grazie locality of Porto Venere. The new museum venue is located within thearchaeological a...
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In Albenga, restoration of Agostino da Casanova's polyptych ends

In Liguria , the restoration of the Polyptych of the "Madonna del Soccorso," a masterpiece dated 1537 and signed by Agostino da Casanova, a sixteenth-century Ligurian painter active on the Riviera di Ponente, ends. For the occasion, the work, present...
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Outstanding discovery in Genoa, Caravaggio work found: it is an Adoration by Matthias Stomer

An important discovery in Genoa , where a Caravaggesque canvas, attributed to Matthias St omer, also known as Matthias Stom (Amersfoort, c. 1600 - Sicily, after 1650), a great Dutch painter, who was influenced by Caravaggio's followers from his coun...
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