Modena - Finestre sull'Arte

Francesco Bianchi Ferrari's Annunciation: a theological compendium in a single scene

To paint one of the most widely represented Gospel episodes in the history of art, the Annunciation, while transforming the scene, so familiar and so traditional, into a narrative capable of also showing the faithful the entire history of salvation. ...
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A nativity scene that served as a predella. Antonio Begarelli's masterpiece in Modena Cathedral.

It is not easy to make a nativity scene, wrote Dino Buzzati. It is a "job that may seem like a game and is instead charged with seriousness and mystery," a job not suitable "for mothers," because it "requires skill organizational skills, technica...
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BPER Bank Gallery dedicates an exhibition to Ligabue. From works from his collection to major loans

From Sept. 16, 2022 to Feb. 5, 2023, the BPER Banca Gallery in Modena will offer a dossier exhibition dedicated to Antonio Ligabue, on the occasion of festivalfilosofia (scheduled for Sept. 16-18, 2022), of which BPER Banca is the main sponsor. Cura...
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Restored work by Jean Boulanger, a seventeenth-century artist from Modena, thanks to BPER Bank

The Gallery. Collection and Historical Archives of BPER Banca has sponsored the restoration of a painting owned by the Museo Civico di Modena that was recently traced back to Jean Boulanger (Troyes, 1608 - Modena, 1660), among the most notable artist...
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Coming up is the XXXV edition of Modenantiquaria, an event dedicated to high antiques

From March 26 to April 3, 2022, a new edition, the thirty-fifth, of Modenantiquaria, an international event dedicated to fine antiques, returns to ModenaFiere. "We will be ready to welcome you and project you into the world of high antiques," said Mo...
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Modenantiquaria returns, high antiques fair reaches its XXXV edition

From March 26 to April 3, 2022, Modenantiquaria, an international fair dedicated tohigh antiques set up in the ModenaFiere premises and now in its XXXV edition, returns. "We will be ready to welcome you and project you into the world of fine antique...
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Ultraromanticism is staged in Modena and province, amid restlessness and abandonment, with 50 contemporary artists

From October 17, 2021 to January 16, 2022, the six-act group exhibition entitled Ultraromanticism will be held in the province of Modena. The Post Human, Between Unrest and Abandonment, which will lead the public to discover the museum venues and his...
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Alessandro Tiarini's Rinaldo e Armida: a translation in pictures by Torquato Tasso

It is difficult to say which seventeenth-century painter was best able to translate into images the verses of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata . If, however, one were to point to the artist who most passionately approached Tasso's univer...
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