Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

Sotheby’s is auctioning the Blaquier-Arrieta collection, featuring works by Monet, Van Gogh, and Cézanne

On November 18, 2026, in New York,Sotheby’s will present the Blaquier-Arrieta Collection, a collection of works that traces some of the key milestones in the emergenceof modern art,from Impressionism in the 1870s to the innovations of Post-Impr...
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Works from the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam on display in Ferrara to explore the revolution in landscape painting

Monet, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Mondrian: these are names that mark the milestones of an epochal turning point in the history of European art. In less than eighty years, between the 19th and 20th centuries, painting shifted from the direct observation of...
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The Casamonti Collection Opens Palazzo San Giorgio with 250 Works from the 19th Century to the Present

Just a short walk from the Ponte Vecchio, at Lungarno Serristori 17 in Florence, the Casamonti Collection will open its new exhibition space at Palazzo San Giorgio to the public on Monday, September 28, 2026. The move to this historic building marks ...
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The Museum That Took a Chance on Van Gogh: The Extraordinary Story of the Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam

On the night of 1864, a devastating fire swept through the Schielandshuis Palace in the heart of Rotterdam, reducing to ashes more than two-thirds of the art collections accumulated up to that point by the city museum, which had been founded fifteen ...
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Pellizza da Volpedo: A Rare Landscape from 1895 Returns to Public View

The location and even the time are noted on the back of the painting: “Meadow at San Rocco / 2:00 p.m. on November 14.” It is one of the rare autograph records left by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (Volpedo, 1868–1907) regarding *Mea...
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Memo Vagaggini’s Metaphysical, Unreal, and Geometric Maremma. What the Exhibition in Bibbona Is Like

These are silences that permeate the Maremma countryside, the result of a mind that viewed those fields, those pine trees, those rivulets, and those marshes as one might view a gold ground, a painting by Piero della Francesca, or a geometric abstract...
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Christie’s is auctioning the collection of Antonio Homem Sonnabend

Christie’s is bringing Antonio Homem Sonnabend’s collection to the market—a vast collection of postwar and contemporary art, photography, multiples, prints, and design—which will be offered in a series of auctions held in London, Paris, a...
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The Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa: The City of the Dead, Where Sculpture Tells the Story of Life

“The first impression you feel, deep within yourself, is that of your precarious existence—an impression that cannot be concealed upon entering this place of meditation; yet this is immediately followed by wonder and surprise at the magnificent...
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