Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

Giuseppe Baldini, rediscovering the first master of Fattori and Corcos.

Leonardo da Vinci's famous maxim "sad is that disciple who does not advance his master" seems to have guided the students of Giuseppe Baldini (Livorno, 1807 - 1876), a Leghorn artist who imparted the first rudiments in painting to important names in ...
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Arthur Szyk, the artist who fought Nazism with satire

A man bent over a drawing board as the whole world seems to be sliding into the abyss. In his hand a small nib dipped in ink: this is how Arthur Szyk (Łódź, 1894 - New Canaan, Cunnecticut, 1951) portrays himself on the title page of Ink and Bl...
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Empoli 1925: when a small room changed the artistic destiny of a province

Empoli, summer of 1925: a small room located at the end of a vegetable garden on Via Tripoli becomes the center of gravity for a new generation of creative artists and returns to us today the image not of a motionless and silent province, like the on...
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Tuscany rediscovers Tito Chelazzi, first florist painter of the 19th century

At the "Giuliano Ghelli" Civic Museum in San Casciano in Val di Pesa (Florence), 19th-century floral painting is back in the spotlight with an exhibition that interweaves art, science, history and local identity. Until March 1, in fact, the exhibitio...
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Zandomeneghi and Degas in Rovigo: dialogues between Italian and French Impressionism

From February 27 to June 28, 2026, Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo is hosting the exhibition Zandomeneghi and Degas. Impressionism between Florence andParis, an exhibition that offers an organic comparison between Italian painter Federico Zandomeneghi (V...
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The gipsoteca that isn't and won't be there: the plaster casts of the Carrara Academy still without a museum

For decades in Carrara, there has been an ongoing attempt to find an exhibition venue that can permanently house one of Italy's most important plaster cast collections: the plaster cast collection of the Academy of Fine Arts. Retracing, albeit briefl...
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Places of Pegasus. Traces of the myth in Tuscany

The blood slid to the ground in thin threads, each with a rhythm all its own, the moment Perseus severed Medusa's head. The ground, hit by that heat so intense it seemed like breathing, changed consistency with a speed that does not belong to things ...
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Where is Chagall's pure soul hidden? Against goodist views

If one steps outside the Chagallian interpretive scheme that interweaves Chassidic Judaism and a certain ethnic-religious idea of fairy-tale reality that finds in the flying sweethearts and in certain upside-down world situations typical of the fairy...
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