Pavia - Finestre sull'Arte

From 2026, the Charterhouse of Pavia will be managed solely by the Ministry of Culture. The monks will leave the Complex

As of January 1, 2026, the Cistercian monks of the Casamariensis Congregation will leave the Monumental Complex of the Charterhouse of Pavia, where they have lived permanently since 1968. As of that date, the management of the site, one of the most i...
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After Florence's cube, Pavia's ziqqurat: a gymnasium on the garden of an 18th-century palace

The heart of one of Pavia's most beautiful buildings, Palazzo Olevano, a historic eighteenth-century mansion in the center of the city, is in danger of seeing its face heavily changed due to the construction of a new glass and concrete gymnasium to s...
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What would the Wunderkammer of a 17th-century collector living today look like? The Civic Museums of Pavia recreate it.

In the Collector's Room of the Visconti Castle in Pavia, the exhibition Mnemosyne opened on October 2022 and will be open until April 25, 2023. The Theater of Memory, curated by Paolo Linetti. What would a seventeenth-century collector's wunderkammer...
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Volker Hermes' hidden portraits are on display in Pavia

In Pavia, from October 8, 2020 to January 6, 2021, the Rivellino exhibition hall at Castello Visconteo is hosting the exhibition Identità s-velate. Hidden Portraits, a solo exhibition by German artist Volker Hermes (Wegberg, 1972). Volker ...
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