Neoclassicism - Finestre sull'Arte

The Prado Museum dedicates an exhibition to Anton Raphael Mengs, among the leading figures of Neoclassicism

The Museo del Prado, in collaboration with Fundación BBVA, presents from November 25, 2025, to March 1, 2026, a major exhibition dedicated to Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig, 1728 - Rome, 1779), among the protagonists of Neoclassicism and among th...
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Milan, an exhibition at Gallerie d'Italia celebrates Rome and Milan as capitals of Neoclassicism

The Gallerie d'Italia in Milan presents from November 28, 2025 to April 6, 2026 the exhibition Eternity and Vision. Rome and Milan Capitals of Neoclassicism, curated by Francesco Leone, Elena Lissoni and Fernando Mazzocca, under the patronage of the ...
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Andrea Appiani beyond Napoleon: Milan rediscovers the painter of beauty. What the exhibition looks like

Almost half of what is preserved at the Brera Art Gallery is due to the ideas and taste of a man, Andrea Appiani, who was well regimented within the Napoleonic bureaucratic apparatus. Right from the start: as early as 1796, the year of Napoleon's arr...
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Jacques-Louis David political: in Paris the revolutionary painter. What the Louvre exhibition looks like

It is surprising that there is little or no talk in Italy about the muscular exhibition that the Louvre has organized to reconstruct the story of Jacques-Louis David exactly two hundred years after his death. In terms of completeness and volume of ma...
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Neoclassical taste: the Cicognara Album on display at Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

From September 26, 2025 to January 12, 2026, Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del Settecento Veneziano hosts the exhibition Gusto neoclassico. The Cicognara Album, curated by Alberto Craievich. The exhibition presents to the public an exceptional volume preserv...
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In Venice exhibited in its entirety after 50 years the Cicognara Album, a precious testimony of Italian Neoclassicism

For the first time, fifty years after the exhibition Venice in the Age of Canova in which theCicognara Album was presented to the general public in 1978, that album, which has now undergone careful restoration sponsored by the Venice International Fo...
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Gallerie d'Italia: photography, the Napoleonic age and women in Spanish Naples in upcoming exhibitions

Intesa Sanpaolo, which recorded 420,000 visitors to its four Gallerie d'Italia museum venues in Milan, Naples, Turin and Vicenza in the first half of 2025, announces a fall season full of exhibition events as part of Progetto Cultura, the multi-year ...
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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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