Twentieth Century - Finestre sull'Arte

Giovanni Costantini, the young man before the real thing: the 19-year-old artist's unpublished self-portrait

In the silence of a late 19th-century Roman studio, a young artist portrays himself while looking at some works on paper. Behind him, on the wall, are hanging paintings. On the table are the working tools: the papers, the brushes, the jars with color...
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Milan, the entire nucleus of Rauschenberg's works from the Agrati collection on display at the Gallerie d'Italia

From May 29 to October 5, 2025, the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan is hosting the exhibition An Unexpected Collection. The New Art of the Sixties and a Homage to Robert Rauschenberg, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, associate curator for modern and conte...
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Fortunato Depero: unpublished drawings on display at Gonnelli's in Florence

The exhibition Fortunato Depero - Futurist Projects offers the public a rare opportunity to enter the creative universe of one of the major protagonists of Italian Futurism. The exhibition, to be held from May 7 to 19, 2025 at the Libreria Antiquaria...
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Picasso, or the modern artist as despot and advertising tyrant

Riccardo Bacchelli had a vivid youthful memory of Picasso, an ungrateful memory. He was then, 1911, practicing as editorial secretary at Prezzolini's Voce, even putting articles on the page. "For some time," Prezzolini would write in Il tempo della V...
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Giancarlo Vitali Museum opens in Bellano (Lecco) in the renovated Palazzo Lorla

On April 30, 2025, the Giancarlo Vitali Museum, a new exhibition space and permanent cultural hub located in the heart of Bellano (Lecco), birthplace of the artist after whom it is named, officially opens to the public. Dedicated to enhancing the wor...
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Germano Sartelli in Imola, a beautiful exhibition for one of the greats of the 20th century in the world

The Civic Museums of Imola are dedicating a major exhibition to Germano Sartelli (Imola, 1925 - 2014) for the 100th anniversary of his birth: Germano Sartelli. The Enchantment of Matter, curated by Claudio Spadoni. A beautiful exhibition. Can one say...
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How Giovanni Fattori drew: the sheets from the Central Institute for Graphics in Rome

Giovanni Fattori's drawing, wrote Barna Occhini in 1940, in an article in Frontispiece, "is the most expressive that can be given, but the most reluctant to express itself in words." Occhini, in fact, immediately disregarded his catch-phrase, since h...
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Carlo Levi and Piero Martina, painters and friends. What the exhibition in Rome looks like

The cigarette elegantly in his right hand and his body slouching against the back of the armchair, on his face a mixed expression of disenchantment and melancholy. Thus, in 1942, Piero Martina portrayed Carlo Levi. Or was it the antifascist painter a...
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