Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

In Bologna, the 19th century is brought to life through the hours of the day in over one hundred paintings

From October 3, 2026 , to January 17, 2027 , Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna will host *A Masterpiece of the Day: From Dawn to Dusk in the Nineteenth Century—A Journey Through Painted Time*, an exhibition curated by Francesca Sinigaglia and produced b...
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Armando Spadini on Display at the Ricci Oddi: A Focus on the Painter’s Maturity in Piacenza

The Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art in Piacenza is dedicating a retrospective exhibition to Armando Spadini ( Florence, 1883 – Rome, 1925), one of the leading figures in Italian painting during the early decades of the 20th century. The exhibi...
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Banco Santander's Art Center Opens in Spain: Five Centuries of Art History

Faro Santander, the new art center sponsored by the Banco Santander Foundation in Santander, northern Spain, will open on September 8. The project stems from the transformation of Banco Santander’s historic headquarters into a new cultural hub ...
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Franco Vaccari, the artist who envisioned the audience as a work of art. What’s the exhibition in Bolzano like?

It will happen—no one knows when, but we can predict it with a certain degree of certainty—that Franco Vaccari will cease to be regarded merely as an excellent photographer and will begin to be recognized for what he truly was, namely, a steadfast pi...
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An exhibition in Bibbona rediscovers Memo Vagaggini, a leading figure of the early 20th century

From July 9 to October 25, 2026, the Palazzo del Comune Vecchio in Bibbona ( Livorno) will host the exhibition *Memo Vagaggini: Painting Between Reality and Dream*, an exhibition dedicated to one of the leading figures in early 20th-century painting,...
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In Brescia, the museums’ “Treasures” chronicle two centuries of collecting and memory

From November 4, 2026, to August 22, 2027, the Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia will host TESORI. The Grand Narrative of Brescia’s Museums. 1826 | 2026, the exhibition that concludes the celebrations marking the bicentennial of the discovery of ...
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Circe’s Cup and the Fate of Odysseus: Two Masterpieces, Two Interpretations of the Myth

A cup containing a magic potion, Ulysses and Circe: one of the most enigmatic episodesof the Odyssey takes place right in the sorceress’s home, where seduction, metamorphosis, and deception intertwine, captivating and inspiring the paintings of many...
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Amsterdam: The Rijksmuseum is hosting a major retrospective on Willem de Kooning

One hundred years after Willem de Kooning (Rotterdam, 1904 – New York, 1997) from Rotterdam to the United States, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam symbolically brings one of the greatest figures in 20th-century art back to the Netherlands with one ...
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