Romanticism - Finestre sull'Arte

Drawing by John Constable sold for £71,740 after 200 years in private collection

The chalk and watercolor drawing A House and Haystack at Flatford (A House and Haystack at Flatford) by John Constable (East Bergholt, 1776 -London, 1837), which belonged to the artist's family and close friends for nearly two centuries, sold today f...
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England, a rare and unpublished drawing by John Constable pops up: it will go to auction

A drawing of extraordinary historical and artistic interest by John Constable (East Bergholt, 1776-London, 1837), among the greatest masters of English landscape painting, is re-emerging on the market after nearly two centuries of absence. The work, ...
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Villa Bassi Rathgeb Museum showcases graphic works from the Renaissance to the 1900s, including Leonor Fini's corpus

From November 22, 2025 to March 15, 2026, the Museo Villa Bassi Rathgeb in Abano Terme (Padua) will host the exhibition Leonor Fini and the Bassi Rathgeb Graphic Collection. Signs and Inventions from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century, curated ...
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New survey identifies William Turner's Italian Landscape with the Devil's Bridge in Blera

An investigation signed by Mauro Bernabei of CNR-Ibe and Stefano Celletti, director of Marturanum Park, has revealed striking similarities between the landscape depicted by William Turner in the unfinished Italian Landscape and the stretch of the Bie...
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A major exhibition at Villa Carlotta on the Bisi, a dynasty of painters between Romanticism and the Risorgimento

From Sept. 20 to Dec. 8, 2025, Villa Carlotta in Tremezzina (Como) dedicates its fall season to one of the best-known and most prolific families of artists in 19th-century Italy, the Bisi family. The exhibition, entitled Family Portrait. The Bisi, a ...
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Hayez's three versions of Pietro Rossi together for the first time: what the Pontremoli exhibition looks like

Francesco Hayez's Pontremoli is suspended in the dream of a romantic Middle Ages, the first of Italy, made of immaculate castles and knights, velvet-clad ladies and blazing armor. Hayez, however, had never been to Pontremoli. Or if he was sometimes e...
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Hayez and Romanticism in in Pontremoli with three masterpieces brought together for the first time

From July 25 to Nov. 2, 2025, Pontremoli, a town nestled in theTuscan-Emilian Apennines at the crossroads of Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria, will host a major exhibition event. In the Hall of Mayors of the Municipal Palace, the three versions of...
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A new museum in Ravenna dedicated to Lord Byron and the Risorgimento

On the very central Via Cavour in Ravenna, in one of its most prestigious and history-laden residences, a new museum was recently inaugurated. After a long and complex restoration made possible thanks to the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, ...
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