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Gino Severini, a genius loci at the heart of modernity. What the exhibition in Cortona is like

Gino Severini, a genius loci at the heart of modernity. What the exhibition in Cortona is like

Every year in Italy, there are countless exhibitions—in almost incalculable numbers. In each exhibition, there is almost always something interesting: an adventure, a comparison of works and styles, or even the chance to see how different curators ap...
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Alessio Nebbia: A 20th-Century Mountain Painter Rediscovered in Turin

Alessio Nebbia: A 20th-Century Mountain Painter Rediscovered in Turin

When snow covers a landscape, it seems to take away rather than add: it erases details, softens colors, alters distances, and makes it harder to distinguish what belongs to observation from what arises from perception. It is above all in this uncerta...
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The Soul of Marble in Florence: Michelangelo at the Heart of Symbolist Visions

The Soul of Marble in Florence: Michelangelo at the Heart of Symbolist Visions

From Michelangelo’s *David* to the sculptures of Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle, and on to the interpretations of Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Leonardo Bistolfi, and Adolfo De Carolis: the Accademia Gallery in Florence is dedicating an exhibi...
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Mark Rothko: The Black Light Beyond Religion

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

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

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

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

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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