‘Capolavori della Terra di Mezzo. Opere d’Arte dal Medioevo al Barocco’ Complesso Monumentale ex Carcere Borbonico, Avellino 28th April – 30th November 2012 Just opened is an exhibition of more than 80 works, dating from medieval to late baroque times, that seek to illustrate the history and heritage of Irpinia, the ‘Terra di Mezzo’ of [...]
Giorgio De Chirico exhibition, Aosta 2012
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‘Giorgio De Chirico. Il labirinto dei sogni e delle idee’ Centro Saint-Bénin, Aosta 29th April – 30th September 2012 ‘The labrynth of dreams and of ideas’ is an exhibition of numerous works by De Chirico, many of which are rarely on show to the public, coming as they do from private collections. ‘The most modern [...]
Picasso exhibition, Milan, September 2012
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‘Picasso – Capolavori dal Museo Nazionale Picasso di Parigi’ Palazzo Reale, Milan, 20th September 2012 – 6th January 2013 Very advance notice of a very important exhibition opening in Milan later this year, 60 years on from the first Picasso exhibition in the city. The National Museum of Picasso (Paris) is undergoing extensive restoration work [...]
Russian ‘avant-gardes’ on show, Rome 2012
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‘Avanguardie Russe’ Ara Pacis, Rome 5th April – 12th September 2012 This exhibition sees some new spaces at Ara Pacis being used for the first time, with 8 distinctly themed sections for an exhibition described as follows: The most remarkable achievements of Russian art in the XX century – Cubo-Futurism, with its unique synthesis of [...]
Venice, Canaletto sketches on show, Palazzo Grimani
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‘Canaletto. Il Quaderno Veneziano’ Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Castello 4858 (Santa Maria Formosa), Venice 1st April – 1st July 2012 The title of this unique exhibition runs to ‘Canaletto. The Venice Sketchbook/Notebook’, albeit that the original sketches were loose sheets, bound only in the 19th century. The core of the exhibition is these said sketches [...]
Klimt exhibition, Venice 2012
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‘Gustav Klimt. Nel segno di Hoffmann e della Secessione’ Museo Correr, Venice 24th March – 8th July 2012 ‘In the sign of Hoffmann and the Secession’ is the title of this exhibition on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Klimt. On show are paintings, drawings, furniture and jewelry, as well as evidence of [...]
Milan, 2012, Brueghel works reunited
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‘Rizomata. Terra, Aria, Acqua, Fuoco. Il Ritorno di Brueghel all’Ambrosiana’ Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan From March 27th 2012 until (? nobody is saying until when, for now at least) The ‘return’ of Brueghel (he was painter to cardinal Federico Borromeo) sees his four masterpieces – Earth, Wind, Water and Fire – reunited for the first time [...]
Picasso exhibition, Venice 2012
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‘Picasso e Vollard – Il genio e il mercante’ Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti – Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice 6th April – 8th July 2012 ‘Picasso and Vollard – the genius and the merchant’ displays more than 150 works by Picasso, some of which are featured on this page from the PR agency [...]
The Etruscans, exhibition in Asti, Piedmont 2012
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‘Etruschi’ Palazzo Mazzetti, Asti, Northern Italy 17th March – 15th July 2012 A major exhibition, with the collaboration of the Vatican, featuring more than 300 pieces from assorted national collections. The centrepiece of the show is the ‘Villanova’ bronze crested helmet, discovered in the late nineteenth century in the river Tanaro, but the exhibition also [...]
Cupid and Psyche exhibition, Rome 2012
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‘La favola di Amore e Psiche’ Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome March 5th – June 10th 2012 An exhibition on the tale of Cupid and Psyche featuring the works – and the interpretations – of various artists through the ages. The focus of the exhibition is the frieze by Perin del Vaga for Pope [...]
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