Nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Finestre sull'Arte

Beyond the reflection: the mirror as threshold in twentieth-century art

There are places intwentieth-century art where reality suddenly seems to open up, multiply, slip out of its usual form. All it takes is a mirror, a sheet of glass that, instead of returning a faithful image, betrays it, doubles it, reinvents it. The...
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Achille Perilli, the labyrinth of form on display in Naples at Alfonso Artiaco's

First exhibition of 2026 for the Alfonso Artiaco Gallery in Naples: it is dedicated to Achille Perilli (Rome, 1927 - Orvieto, 2021), one of the most rigorous and radical protagonists of Italian abstraction in the second half of the 20th century. Enti...
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A collection of humanity painted by great names of the 20th century is on display at the de' Bonis Gallery in Reggio Emilia

Through Jan. 31, 2026, Galleria de' Bonis in Reggio Emilia is hosting the group exhibition Humans of Art. Every Human Has a Story. Inspired by Brandon Stanton's photographic and editorial project Humans of New York, the exhibition features a collecti...
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An exhibition in Catanzaro pays tribute to Mimmo Rotella with his self-portraits 20 years after his death

Twenty years after the death of Mimmo Rotella, the Mimmo Rotella Foundation celebrates the figure of the artist with the exhibition project Autorotella, curated by Alberto Fiz and open to visitors in the Casa della Memoria in Catanzaro, the house-mus...
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London, at the National Portrait Gallery a major exhibition devoted to the drawings of Lucian Freud

From February 12 to May 4, 2026, the National Portrait Gallery in London will present Lucian Freud: Drawing Into Painting, a major exhibition devoted to the drawings and paintings of Lucian Freud. The exhibition aims to be the largest museum project ...
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Two important works by Giacomo Balla return to the Roberto Casamonti Collection on display.

As part of the initiative The Return of the 20th Century Masters, which has been underway since early 2025, a number of masterpieces by the great artists belonging to its first section From the Beginning of the 20th Century to the 1960s are reintrodu...
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Paris, sword from equestrian statue of Joan of Arc stolen: man apprehended

On Friday morning, Jan. 2, 2026, around 10 a.m., a man was detained in Paris following the theft of a sword from the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, a work created by Paul Dubois in the late 19th century, located in the Place Saint-Augustin in the ...
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Farewell to Lucia Di Luciano, protagonist of the last Vanguard of twentieth-century art

Lucia Di Luciano, a central figure in the research ofkinetic-programmed art, has passed away at the age of 93. Over the course of a career spanning more than 70 years, the artist established herself as a leading protagonist of what Lea Vergine called...
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