Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

Genoa rediscovers the 19th century: a journey through hidden masterpieces and the revolution of the real thing

Entitled Ottocento svelato. Tales of Collections and Museums in Nineteenth-Century Genoa, the articulated exhibition project that, in Genoa until March 29, 2026, aims to combine scientific research with museographic renewal, restoring centrality to ...
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The true face of Giovanni Segantini, between nature and idea. What the exhibition in Bassano del Grappa looks like.

We tend to associate Giovanni Segantini's painting with alpine landscapes, snow, and mountains. Angelo Conti, in Beata Riva, a fundamental treatise on aesthetics, said that Segantini was "the revealer of the mountain," because "no one like him ever h...
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Kandinsky and Italy: the whole story of a dialogue

The relationship between Vasily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944) andItaly is a complex affair, made up of missed encounters, long-distance admiration, and fruitful reworkings that in some ways marked the history of 20th-century art ...
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De Chirico, the last metaphysics: what the exhibition at the Palazzo dei Musei in Modena looks like

A high and singular de Chirico Exhibition in Modena. A happy event that brings new light to a powerful beacon of art. We take this precious opportunity certainly not to bore the reader and dissert again on the innumerable volumes already expressed ar...
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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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Panoramas rediscovered in Rome: watercolors and photographs of the city between the 19th and early 20th centuries

At the Paolo Antonacci Gallery in Rome, the exhibitionPanorami ritrovati. Una raccolta di acquarelli di Salomon Corrodi e di fotografie diRoma del XIX secolo, dedicated to a collection of watercolors by Salomon Corrodi and a considerable nucleus of ...
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Pisani's Gipsoteca and the challenge of restoring dignity to southern art

In a long interview in 1996, Federico Zeri carefully analyzed, one by one, the problems, related to the study (and partly to the profession) of art history in Italy. Despite its extraordinary cultural heritage, in Zeri's eyes, in those years the Ital...
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"The ancients always copy us". The Etruscans in contemporary art

When, in the eighteenth century, Johann Joachim Winckelmann tries to give a comprehensive shape to the history of ancient art, his gaze constructs a map in which Greece occupies the incandescent center. In the pages of Geschichte der Kunst des Altert...
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