Turin - Finestre sull'Arte

Turin, MAO Museum of Oriental Art and Palazzo Madama seek new directors. Selections open

Fondazione Torino Musei has launched selection procedures for the Direction of MAO Museum of Oriental Art and Palazzo Madama - Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, in view of the expiration of the current positions, scheduled for early 2027. The selections, a...
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A festival dedicated to French literature is born in Turin: it's called Francesissimo

From Friday, January 30 to Sunday, February 1, Turin will host Francesissimo, a new festival dedicated to French and Francophone literature and culture. The initiative is proposed as a mirror and complementary project to Italissimo, which has been br...
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The rediscovered castle: Palazzo Madama from the Roman Age to the Middle Ages

Before becoming the home of the Royal Madames, before being associated with the history of the Savoy family and the architectural interventions of Filippo Juvarra, Palazzo Madama was a castle. It is from this observation that the exhibition The Redis...
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Turin, Legnanino's Belisario returns to Palazzo Carignano after more than three centuries

More than three centuries later, the Apartments of the Princes of Palazzo Carignano in Turin will once again host the painting Belisarius Asks for Alms by Stefano Maria Legnani, known as Legnanino (Milan, 1661 - 1713), from December 2025 to January 6...
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At the Castle of Agliè (Turin) Japanese paintings and vases restored in a new dedicated display

From December 13, 2025, the Castle of Agliè (Turin), part of the Royal Residences of Savoy, will present to the public a rare and valuable nucleus of twenty-one Japanese paintings from the 19th century, restored to their original expressive in...
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Barocci's Madonna of the Cherries from the Vatican Museums arrives for Christmas in Turin, at the Gallerie d'Italia

The Gallerie d'Italia in Turin will welcome, as part of the exhibition L'Ospite illustre, Federico Barocci's Madonna of the Cherries, among his most famous masterpieces, coming for the occasion from the Vatican Museums. Visitors will be able to admir...
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Getting wrapped up in Chiharu Shiota's invisible textures: what the exhibition at MAO Turin looks like

There has been talk on more than one occasion on these pages about the increasing presence in exhibitions, biennials and art fairs of spectacular installations, of works that are immediately striking for their visual power but are often fragile or su...
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Turin, an exhibition on the fortunes of Nordic painting in Piedmont at the Pinacoteca Albertina

From November 28, 2025 to May 3, 2026, the Pinacoteca dell'Accademia Albertina in Turin will host the exhibition Gleams of the North. Flemish and Dutch Painting between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and its Fortune in Piedmont, curated by A...
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