Neoclassicism - Finestre sull'Arte

When Milan was the workshop of Neoclassicism. What the Gallerie d'Italia exhibition looks like.

Keeping the attention of visitors along the entire path of an exhibition is no easy thing, especially when investigating a historical-artistic period, such as Neoclassicism and its major protagonists, to which a conspicuous number of exhibition proje...
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Rome, restoration of Thorvaldsen's Venus and Bienaimé's Telemachus from the Academy of St. Luke kicks off

TheNational Academy of St. Luke in Rome is inaugurating a new restoration campaign dedicated to two important neoclassical sculptures: Venus with an apple (1813) by Danish master Bertel Thorvaldsen and Telemachus (ca. 1835) by Carrarese sculptor Luig...
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Mantua's Ducal Palace opens Empress Apartment with a display dedicated to Giuseppe Bottani

At the conclusion of the restoration of the tapestries of the Salottino Giallo, also known as the Salottino di Ercole, in theAppartamento dell'Imperatrice in Corte Vecchia, the Ducal Palace of Mantua presents a renewed layout of the rooms with an exh...
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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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