Liguria - Finestre sull'Arte

Nicolò Barabino's Oliva, when a painting is social novel. What the Genoa exhibition looks like

Nicolo Barabino proved that Mary of Nazareth is a woman made of verse and ink, that her image is a profoundly human construct, is the badge of devout, radiant, delicate consummation. He, however, had no knowledge of it; he was just a painter who had ...
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St. George from martyr to knight, the myth of Genoa. What the exhibition at the Royal Palace looks like

... and the knight saved the princess from the terrible dragon. It sounds like thehappy ending of one of those fairy tales we used to read to each other as children, already under the blankets, before falling asleep, but in fact the story of St. Geor...
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Genoa, big purchase for Palazzo Spinola: coming soon: a Lucrezia by Guido Reni

A Lucrezia by Guido Reni of very high Genoese provenance, a fine product of the extreme phase of the Bolognese painter's career, has re-emerged from oblivion and has been purchased by the Ministry of Culture for the National Gallery of Liguria in Gen...
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Loano, remains of a possible Roman villa from the imperial era discovered

From the subsoil of the historic center of Loano (Savona) are re-emerging increasingly substantial traces of a Roman past that, until now, was known mainly through individual finds. In fact, resurfacing work on the so-called "caruggetti orbi," narrow...
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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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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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