Nineteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

Giuseppe Baldini, rediscovering the first master of Fattori and Corcos.

Leonardo da Vinci's famous maxim "sad is that disciple who does not advance his master" seems to have guided the students of Giuseppe Baldini (Livorno, 1807 - 1876), a Leghorn artist who imparted the first rudiments in painting to important names in ...
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Moses Bianchi at MUST: 40 works tell the story of the 19th century between Monza and Vimercate

From January 31 to May 3, MUST - Museum of the Territory of Vimercate (Monza and Brianza) dedicates the main exhibition of the winter and spring cultural season to Mosè Bianchi, a Monza painter active in the second half of the 19th century, wi...
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Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum is enriched by Odilon Redon's first still life

Odilon Redon 's painting Flowers in a Small Chinese Porcelain Cup (1884) officially becomes part of the heritage of the State of the Netherlands and has been destined for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. This is the artist's first still life, a sma...
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Tuscany rediscovers Tito Chelazzi, first florist painter of the 19th century

At the "Giuliano Ghelli" Civic Museum in San Casciano in Val di Pesa (Florence), 19th-century floral painting is back in the spotlight with an exhibition that interweaves art, science, history and local identity. Until March 1, in fact, the exhibitio...
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The Macchiaioli in Milan: light and modernity of the 19th century on display at Palazzo Reale

Milan is preparing to welcome I Macchiaioli, which can be visited from Feb. 3 to June 14 in the rooms of the Palazzo Reale. The exhibition curated by Francesca Dini, Elisabetta Matteucci and Fernando Mazzocca offers an in-depth look at the Italian ...
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The gipsoteca that isn't and won't be there: the plaster casts of the Carrara Academy still without a museum

For decades in Carrara, there has been an ongoing attempt to find an exhibition venue that can permanently house one of Italy's most important plaster cast collections: the plaster cast collection of the Academy of Fine Arts. Retracing, albeit briefl...
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Parma, a major exhibition on Italian Symbolism at the Magnani-Rocca Foundation

From March 14 to June 28, 2026, the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo, a few kilometers from Parma, hosts The Symbolism in Italy. Origins and Developments of a New Aesthetic 1883-1915, an exhibition that brings together more than 14...
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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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