Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

Mark Rothko: The Black Light Beyond Religion

After Mark Rothko’s death, the critic Harold Rosenberg, a theorist of Action Painting, wrote an obituary for the painter in *The New Yorker*, in which he described him as a “reductive theologian of painting.” He intended that adject...
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Rome: A 1909 landscape by Picabia, on the cusp of abstraction, arrives at Villa Medici

In 1909, Francis Picabia (Paris, 1879–1953) was thirty years old and had already established a solid reputation within the art world. At that very moment, however, the artist decided to reevaluate the path he had taken up to that point: he sold...
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Inspiration from Europe: Three Exhibitions in Vicenza Explore Artistic Dialogues Between Italy and Germany, France, and Spain

“Ispirazione Europa: Artistic Dialogues Between the 19th and 20th Centuries” is launching in Vicenza —a new exhibition project sponsored by the City of Vicenza that aims to explore, through art, the formation and evolution of the European spirit fro...
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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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