Nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Finestre sull'Arte

Picasso, or the modern artist as despot and advertising tyrant

Riccardo Bacchelli had a vivid youthful memory of Picasso, an ungrateful memory. He was then, 1911, practicing as editorial secretary at Prezzolini's Voce, even putting articles on the page. "For some time," Prezzolini would write in Il tempo della V...
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Giancarlo Vitali Museum opens in Bellano (Lecco) in the renovated Palazzo Lorla

On April 30, 2025, the Giancarlo Vitali Museum, a new exhibition space and permanent cultural hub located in the heart of Bellano (Lecco), birthplace of the artist after whom it is named, officially opens to the public. Dedicated to enhancing the wor...
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Germano Sartelli in Imola, a beautiful exhibition for one of the greats of the 20th century in the world

The Civic Museums of Imola are dedicating a major exhibition to Germano Sartelli (Imola, 1925 - 2014) for the 100th anniversary of his birth: Germano Sartelli. The Enchantment of Matter, curated by Claudio Spadoni. A beautiful exhibition. Can one say...
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How Giovanni Fattori drew: the sheets from the Central Institute for Graphics in Rome

Giovanni Fattori's drawing, wrote Barna Occhini in 1940, in an article in Frontispiece, "is the most expressive that can be given, but the most reluctant to express itself in words." Occhini, in fact, immediately disregarded his catch-phrase, since h...
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Carlo Levi and Piero Martina, painters and friends. What the exhibition in Rome looks like

The cigarette elegantly in his right hand and his body slouching against the back of the armchair, on his face a mixed expression of disenchantment and melancholy. Thus, in 1942, Piero Martina portrayed Carlo Levi. Or was it the antifascist painter a...
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Brief history of Italian tourism posters

At the end of the 19th century,Italy, then a young nation that had just been unified, was still a land of deep regional differences, disconnected cities and countryside, and strongly rooted local cultures. However, major economic and infrastructural ...
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Venice, an exhibition on Giulio Aristide Sartorio's Poem of Human Life at Ca' Pesaro

From May 16 to September 28, 2025 Ca' Pesaro - International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice presents the exhibition Giulio Aristide Sartorio. The Poem of Human Life, curated by Matteo Piccolo and Elisabetta Barisoni. Giulio Aristide Sartorio, frequ...
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Ten things to know about Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, important Portuguese painter of the 20th century

Portuguese artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (Lisbon, 1908 - Paris, 1992) was an enigmatic and multifaceted figure in the 20th-century art scene, rediscovered in Italy in 2025, just over 30 years after her death, with an exhibition at the Peggy Gug...
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