Nineteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

Louvre, Delacroix regains his colors: restored masterpiece on Crusaders in Constantinople

In Paris, one of the absolute masterpieces of Eugène Delacroix (Saint-Maurice, 1798 - Paris, 1863) is back in its original guise. After painstaking conservation work lasting nearly a year, The Crusaders' Entry into Constantinople (April 12, 12...
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Ghosts, myths, visions: this is Symbolism in Italy. What the Magnani Rocca exhibition looks like.

It may provoke mild, amused unease to think that the Villa Borghese painted by Onorato Carlandi is pure invention, a pagan fantasy, the shredding of a dream. It does not exist, that Villa Borghese. There is not the great, sinister, shadowy oak that C...
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The Maritime Republics, the birth of a myth: from nineteenth-century intuition to fascism

The concept of "maritime republics" is of relatively recent invention , a formulation owed to a Swiss historian named Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi and in particular to his Histoire des républiques italiennes du moyen â...
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Palazzo Blu dedicates an exhibition to the Gioli brothers and painting in Pisa between the 19th and 20th centuries

Palazzo Blu in Pisa presents in its exhibition halls from May 16 to September 6, 2026 the exhibition I fratelli Gioli e la pittura a Pisa fra Otto e Novecento, curated by Stefano Renzoni. With this exhibition, Palazzo Blu continues its path of resear...
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Como dedicates exhibition to Turner: Lake and Italian landscape in Tate's works

From May 29 to Sept. 27, 2026, the city of Como will host an exhibition project dedicated to William Turner (1775-1851), a central figure of English Romanticism, with a path spread between Palazzo del Broletto and the Pinacoteca civica. The initiativ...
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Valpurga Night in art: witches and enchantments between Faust and nocturnal apparitions

Walpurga Night, still celebrated between April 30 and May 1, represents one of the most persistent and fascinating themes in European culture, a meeting point of folk tradition, religious imagery and artistic reworking. Among the many European tradit...
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At the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, the first major retrospective in France dedicated to Giovanni Segantini

From April 29 to August 16, 2026, the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris welcomes the exhibition Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899). I Want to See My Mountains, the first major retrospective in France dedicated to Giovanni Segantini, one of the most r...
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On Cacciari's Van Gogh, beyond all romantic myths about the mad artist

Massimo Cacciari's Van Gogh cannot indulge in despair, and it is in this profound longing for salvation, it is in this certainty continually tormented by restlessness, peace, pain, joy, and fragility that all the reasons for his art are nested. Cacci...
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