Nineteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

Musée d'Orsay, restoration on view for Gustave Courbet's monumental Funeral at Ornans

The Musée d'Orsay has begun the restoration of A Funeral at Ornans, a monumental masterpiece created by Gustave Courbet between 1849 and 1850. Considered one of the most significant works in the famous Parisian museum's collection because of i...
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A century of art in Bologna: 120 works from the 19th and 20th centuries on display at Fondantico

From 19th-century Vedutism to postwar portraits of the bourgeoisie, via Symbolism, Realism and Secessionism, Bolognese painting between the 19th and 20th centuries is back in the spotlight at Bologna 's Fondantico Gallery with a new edition of the an...
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10 points for understanding the art of Vilhelm Hammershøi

Vilhelm Hammershøi (Copenhagen, 1864 - 1916) is one of the most fascinating figures in European painting at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Born in Copenhagen, he was one of the greatest Danish artists of his time and experimented wit...
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Two masterpieces by Boccioni and Pellizza enrich the Pinacoteca Divisionismo in Tortona

The Pinacoteca Divisionismo in Tortona confirms itself as a center of excellence for the study and appreciation of Italian art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, announcing two new, significant acquisitions that add to its already prestigiou...
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Giovanni Costantini, the young man before the real thing: the 19-year-old artist's unpublished self-portrait

In the silence of a late 19th-century Roman studio, a young artist portrays himself while looking at some works on paper. Behind him, on the wall, are hanging paintings. On the table are the working tools: the papers, the brushes, the jars with color...
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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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Miradolo Castle Park reborn: 200-year-old project unveiled by Xavier Kurten

On Saturday, April 19, 2025, at 11 a.m., the new tour of the historic park of Miradolo Castle (San Secondo di Pinerolo, Turin) will be officially inaugurated, a place that, after a long process of research and restoration, now rediscovers the origina...
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Eugenio Cecconi, painter of the Maremma, on display in Forte dei Marmi

One of the most important retrospectives dedicated to Eugenio Cecconi (Livorno, 1842 - Florence, 1903) a painter friend of the Macchiaioli and authentic witness of a Tuscany made up of countryside, hunting and everyday peasant life, comes to life in ...
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