Postimpressionism - Finestre sull'Arte

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 Padua, Palazzo Zabarella hosts masterpieces of French modernism from the Brooklyn Museum, from Monet to Matisse

From December 16, 2023 to May 12, 2024, Palazzo Zabarella in Padua hosts the exhibition From Monet to Matisse. French Moderns, 1850-1950, curated by Lisa Small, Senior Curator of European Art, and Richard Aste, former Curator of European Art, both st...
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Still Life with Cherries, one of the very rare works by Paul Cézanne that we have in Italy

It is thanks to a few enlightened minds that we can admire a scant handful of Paul Cézanne's paintings in Italian museums today. Palma Bucarelli who bought Cabanon du Jourdan, believed to be Cézanne's last painting, for the Galleria d'A...
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All of Van Gogh's olive trees in one exhibition

All of Vincent van Gogh 's olive groves in one exhibition: this is Van Gogh and the Olive Groves, an exhibition that opened last March 9 and will remain on view until June 12 at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, curated by Nienke Bakker and Nicole R....
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An exhibition-dossier on the Potato Eaters at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

An exhibition-dossier on one of Vincent van Gogh 's (Zundert, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) best-known masterpieces, The Potato Eaters, is coming to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It is entitled The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece? ("The Pot...
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"I am sure I will be his continuator": Van Gogh and Adolphe Monticelli, the painter who inspired his sunflowers

If one pays attention, there is a precise moment from which the output of Vincent van Gogh (Zundert, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) is filled with extraordinary still lifes featuring colorful bouquets of flowers: the summer of 1886. At that time, ...
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"One should not copy nature, but know it so that the result is fresh and authentic." Van Gogh and nature

On January 3, 2019, the film Van Gogh. On the Threshold of Eternity, by Julian Schnabel, starring Willem Dafoe as van Gogh. Click here for an in-depth look at reasons why you should see the film, click here for a list of ten paintings you may...
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10 Vincent van Gogh paintings that appear in the film "Van Gogh. On the Threshold of Eternity" and where to see them live

One of the special features of the film Van Gogh. On the Threshold of Eternity, to be released in Italian theaters on January 3, 2019( an in-depth look at why to see it can be found atthis link ), consists in the fact that the paintings seen in t...
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