Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

A major exhibition at the Louvre on Jacques-Louis David, the painter of the revolution and Napoleon

In Paris, the Louvre is planning a major exhibition devoted to Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1748-Brussels, 1825), a great painter associated with the Neoclassical movement, the leading one in Napoleonic France. Curated by Sébastien Allard, Gene...
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Alice in Wonderland, a journey into the illustrated world of Carroll and John Tenniel

July 4 marksAlice Day, an anniversary that commemorates the afternoon in 1862 when Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, destined to become known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (Daresbury, 1832 - Guildford, 1898), first told the story of a little girl named Alic...
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Roberto Longhi today between myth, writing and the challenge of contemporary criticism

In the last decade, studies aimed at rereading the historical and critical work of Roberto Longhi have been several. A sign that Longhi has entered the phase of the historical process that will have to establish or not his definitive canonization. An...
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Livorno, for 200 years of Giovanni Fattori a major exhibition with more than 200 works

On the bicentennial of the birth of Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 1825 - Florence, 1908), Livorno is preparing to celebrate one of its most illustrious sons with a major cultural event. From Sept. 6, 2025 to Jan. 11, 2026, the Tuscan city will host a se...
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An exhibition in Carrara on play in art along 100 years

Starting Saturday, June 28, and running through Sunday, October 26, 2025, Palazzo Cucchiari in Carrara opens its doors to an exhibition dedicated to play in art between 1850 and 1950: it is entitled In gioco. Illusion and Amusement in Italian Art 185...
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Inhabiting the void, against the noise of the world. When absence is not lack, but origin

There is an emptiness that nails, made of all that we have chosen not to be, all those versions of us that we have left behind out of fear, out of inertia, out of survival. An emptiness that does not show itself violently, but creeps in like a subtle...
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Saul Leiter and the aesthetics of almost: when art turns time into emotion

Rain muffles edges, blurs lines, deactivates the habitual geometry of things. It produces a different topography of the visible, in which the solidity of forms surrenders to a softer logic, more available to error and variation. Volumes become thinne...
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Barcelona, rear facade of Casa Batlló restored: reconstructed to original appearance

Casa Batlló, one of the most emblematic masterpieces of Barcelona's modernist architecture designed by the genius of Antoni Gaudí, has recently completed a major restoration of the rear facade and inner courtyard, which began during the...
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