Romanticism - Finestre sull'Arte

In 2025, the Metropolitan Museum will host the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Caspar David Friedrich in the U.S.

In 2025, the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States devoted to one of the most important exponents of German Romanticism, Caspar David Friedrich (Greifswald, 1774 - Dresden, 1840), will be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Feb....
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Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale devotes exhibition to 19th century art in Naples

The Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome welcomes the exhibition Napoli Ottocento. Degas, Fortuny, Gemito, Mancini, Morelli, Palizzi, Sargent, Turner, open from March 27 to June 16, 2024, curated by Sylvain Bellenger together with Jean - Loup Champion, Car...
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Spain buys a rare youthful Pieta by Goya for 1.5 million euros

An important and rare work by Francisco Goya (Fuendetodos, 1746 - Bordeaux, 1828), the Pieta, an early painting by the Spanish artist, has been purchased by Spain's Ministry of Culture for the sum of 1.5 million euros: it will be destined for the Nat...
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Inside Hayez's creative process (with a few masterpieces). What the exhibition in Turin looks like

Not since 2016 had we seen an exhibition that chronologically traced the long biography and artistic production of Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 - Milan, 1882): until February of that year, in fact, the Gallerie d'Italia in Piazza Scala in Milan hous...
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Mythical Turner: landscapes and myth in the English painter's art. What the Venaria exhibition looks like

"Turner should come to Rome [...]. Here his genius would find bread for his teeth." The consideration was expressed by Sir Thomas Lawrence, an English painter who was residing in Italy at the time, and who in a letter of July 1819 confided to Joseph ...
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Germany dedicates all of 2024 to Caspar David Friedrich, with exhibitions and events in several cities

On the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (Greifswald, 1774 - Dresden, 1840), Germany is celebrating the most famous painter of GermanRomanticism with more than 160 events and major exhibitions...
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Turin, an exhibition on Francesco Hayez at GAM with a hundred works

The Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino (GAM) is dedicating a major exhibition to Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 - Milan, 1882), scheduled from October 17, 2023 to April 1, 2024, and entitled Hayez. The Workshop of the Romantic Pa...
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From Neoclassicism to Romanticism: an exhibition on Pompeo Marchesi at the GAM in Milan

Milan remembers one of its greatest sculptors, Pompeo Marchesi (Saltrio, 1783 - Milan, 1858) with the exhibition Neoclassical and Romantic. Pompeo Marchesi, sculptor collector, scheduled from March 1 to June 18, 2023 at GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna....
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