Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, Piazza Matteotti 9, until the 5th of June 2011 ‘L’Africa delle meraviglie. Arti africane nelle collezioni italiane.’ Monday to Friday, 09.00 – 19.00, Weekends 09.00 – 20.00 ‘Wonders of Africa – African art in Italian collections’ is (yet another!) new art exhibition for Genoa in 2011. An exhibition of over 350 pieces [...]
Rome, Chagall exhibition, ‘The upside down world of’
December 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Rome, Museo dell’Ara Pacis, Lungotevere in Augusta – ‘Chagall. Il mondo sottosopra’ 22nd December 2010 – 27th March 2011, Tuesday-Sunday: 9.00 am – 7.00 pm On the 25th anniversary of his death, this major exhibition features around 130 paintings and drawings by Chagall, some of which are previously unseen. The exhibits have come from private [...]
Caravaggio, new exhibition at Rome – ‘La bottega del genio’
December 22, 2010 by 1 Comment
‘Caravaggio – La bottega del genio’ Palazzo Venezia, Rome (119 Via del Plebiscito) 22nd December 2010- 29th May 2011, 10.00 – 19.00, Tuesday to Sunday Another major Caravaggio exhibition in Rome, albeit this time an unusual one. The exhibition recreates the studio that Caravaggio worked in in an attempt to evoke, quite literally, the atmosphere [...]
Florence, exhibition (‘from Velazquez to Annigoni’) at the Annigoni Museum
December 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Florence, Museo Annigoni, Villa Bardini, 2 Costa San Giorgio 16th December 2010 – 1st May 2011 Tuesdays to Sundays, 10.00 to 18.00 Featuring Italian painters from the 1920′s, 30′s and 40′s, this exhibition – ‘Novecento sedotto. Il fascino del Seicento tra le due guerre da Velázquez a Annigoni’ takes as its theme the charm/fascination that [...]
Florence, Pitti Palace exhibition 2011 – La bella Italia
December 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Florence, Palazzo Pitti – 11th October 2011 – 4th March 2012 – ‘La Bella Italia, Arte e Identita delle Citta Capitali’ This major exhibition will be held in both Florence and Turin and is perhaps the most important event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. ‘La bella Italia. Art and identity of [...]
Buon Natale and a couple of early closures, Christmas 2010
December 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Buon Natale from Italy! Please note that we’ll be open pretty much as normal given that the festivities fall on weekends this year, so there’ll be no unusual delays in processing any orders. We’ve just been notified of some early closing times for a few places across the country, see details below: Sistine Chapel: Friday [...]
Palazzo Pitti exhibition, ‘Treasures of the Kremlin’
December 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Palazzo Pitti, Silver Gallery – 27th May – 11th September 2011 – ‘Il Tesoro del Cremlino’ This ‘Treasures of the Kremlin’ exhibition is the fruit of the 2011 ‘year of Italy/Russia’ celebrations, an initiative that will see a reciprocal exhibition (Medici treasures) at the Kremlin museum in Moscow. The vast bulk of the exhibits for [...]
Palazzo Pitti – Workshop of semi-precious stones exhibition
December 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Palazzo Pitti, Modern Gallery, 17th May – 11th September 2011 ‘Dagli Splendori di Corte al Lusso Borghese, L’Opificio delle Pietre Dure nell’Italia Unita’ Next year, 2011, is the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy and there will be many an event on and around this theme. Perhaps not the first thing you’d think of [...]
Florence, Uffizi exhibition 2011 – Vasari and Cosimo
December 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 14th June – 30th October 2011 – now extended until January 8th 2012. ‘Vasari, Gli Uffizi e Il Duca’ Five hundred years on from the birth of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), this exhibition celebrates Vasari, Cosimo the Medici Duke (‘Il Duca’ of the title) and the birth of the Uffizi, where work started [...]
Florence, Academy Gallery, Bartolini exhibition
December 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia, ‘Lorenzo Bartolini, Scultore del Bello Naturale’ 31st May to 6th November 2011 – now extended until January 8th 2012. Lorenzo Bartolini (1777 – 1850) was born near Prato in Tuscany and was a neoclassicist sculptor – the title of this exhibition casts his works as pieces capturing ‘natural beauty’. The exhibition, the [...]
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