Nineteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

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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In Bologna, Faustino Joli's Risorgimento figurines: the Quarantotto cycle on display

The Museo civico del Risorgimento in Bologna dedicates an exhibition to Faustino Joli (Brescia, 1814 - ivi, 1876) on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Brescian painter's death, presenting for the first time in an organic way the most compl...
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Luigi Norfini, the king's painter between lived war and rhetoric. What the exhibition in Lucca looks like

Until forty, fifty years ago, anyone who wanted to set up a chamber of Risorgimento horrors, a museum of the kitsch of post-unification Italy, would not have hesitated before the possibility of 'slip into the album of patriotic rhetoric also the work...
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Alberto Calza Bini and Irene Gilli, an exhibition rewrites the story of an artist couple

Let us pretend, for the next five lines, that the adjective "retrospective" referring to an exhibition is nice to read and above all has some classificatory potential, some determinative value. Well: the "retrospective" exhibition of an artist workin...
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Versailles between art and power: ten works tell the story of the Sun King's Palace

Versailles, the quintessential symbol of French monarchical power, has inspired artists of different eras and styles, becoming the subject of a story that spans centuries. From Israel Silvestre 's engravings of 1682, which immortalize the Palace as s...
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