Nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Finestre sull'Arte

Rome, at the Casina delle Civette an exhibition on Virgilio Retrosi, pupil of Duilio Cambellotti

The Casina delle Civette at Villa Torlonia hosts until June 2, 2024 In the Sign of Cambellotti. Virgilio Retrosi artist and craftsman, an exhibition project dedicated to Virgilio Retrosi (Rome 1892-1975), an artist present in the collections of the M...
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Aosta, an exhibition on Felice Casorati with unpublished works and new research

From Dec. 1 to April 7, 2024, the Regional Archaeological Museum of Aosta is dedicating an exhibition to Felice Casorati (Novara, 1883 - Turin, 1963), entitled Pittura che nasce dall'interno, an extensive retrospective not without unpublished discov...
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Inside Hayez's creative process (with a few masterpieces). What the exhibition in Turin looks like

Not since 2016 had we seen an exhibition that chronologically traced the long biography and artistic production of Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 - Milan, 1882): until February of that year, in fact, the Gallerie d'Italia in Piazza Scala in Milan hous...
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Florence, at the Bank of Italy an exhibition on female presences in art between the 19th and 20th centuries

From Thursday, November 23, 2023 to Sunday, March 10, 2024, the Bank of Italy is hosting in the representative rooms of its Florence headquarters the exhibition Towards Modernity. Female Presences in the Art Collection of the Bank of Italy. The init...
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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection launches Once Upon a Time, podcast inspired by four iconic works of the Avant-Garde

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is launching Once Upon a Time, a podcast conceived by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in collaboration with MILE, Museums and Innovation in Language Education of the CRDL of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and create...
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An exhibition in Siena recalls the friendship between Fausto Melotti and Italo Calvino

On the centenary of the birth of Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de la Habana, 1923 - Siena, 1985), Siena pays tribute to the writer through an exhibition by his friend, sculptor Fausto Melotti (Rovereto, 1901 - Milan, 1986), in the very places ...
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Mythical Turner: landscapes and myth in the English painter's art. What the Venaria exhibition looks like

"Turner should come to Rome [...]. Here his genius would find bread for his teeth." The consideration was expressed by Sir Thomas Lawrence, an English painter who was residing in Italy at the time, and who in a letter of July 1819 confided to Joseph ...
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The Estense Gallery in Modena recounts a nineteenth-century feminicide. The sad story of Maria Pedena

Within the visiting itinerary of the Galleria Estense in Modena, in room 17, the exhibition Maria Pedena is on display until March 17, 2024. The Sad Story of a Beautiful Child. The exhibition brings together works and documents that illustrate how th...
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