‘Americani a Firenze. Sargent e gli impressionisti del Nuovo Mondo’ Palazzo Strozzi, Florence 3rd March – 15th July 2012 ‘Americans in Florence – Sargent and the American Impressionists’ is another exhibition for Florence on the 500th anniversary of the death of Amerigo Vespucci – the other one being the Native American art show at Palazzo [...]
Florence, Pitti Palace 2012 – Native American art exhibition
March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘La Nuova Frontiera. Storia e cultura dei nativi d’America dalle collezioni del Gilcrease Museum’ Palazzo Pitti – Andito degli Angiolini – Galleria del Costume 3rd July – 9th December 2012 ‘The New Frontier. The history and culture of the native American from the Gilcrease Museum, USA’ is an exhibition on the 500th anniversary of the [...]
Florence, Pitti Galleries 2012, Japanese art and culture
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‘Giappone. Terra di Incanti’ Palazzo Pitti: Museo degli Argenti & Galleria Palatina & Galleria d’arte moderna 3rd April – 1st July 2012 ‘Japan, Land of Enchantment’ is the ‘group’ title of this series of three distinct exhibitions spread across three of the Pitti Palace galleries, all celebrating the art, history and culture of Japan and [...]
Florence, Uffizi Gallery exhibition 2012, Gothic art
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Bagliori dorati, il gotico internazionale a Firenze 1375-1440′ Florence, Uffizi Gallery 19th June – 4th November 2012 The second major exhibition at the Uffizi in 2012, this display of Gothic art from the Florence of 1375 to 1440 can be translated as ‘Golden (choose between:) glimmers/glows/dazzles/glints’, and highlights an incredible period in Florence’s artistic past, [...]
Florence, Uffizi Gallery exhibition 2012 – precious tapestries
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‘La Galleria degli arazzi. Epifanie di tessuti preziosi’ Florence, Uffizi Gallery 20th March – 3rd June 2012 Featuring 17 prestigious tapestries, this exhibition offers a rare glimpse into one of the many hidden galleries (reserve collections) of the Uffizi. These works have been under lock, key and cover since 1987 … one day they will [...]
Miró exhibition, Rome 2012
February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Miró! Poesia e Luce’ Rome, Chiostro del Bramante 16th March – 10th June 2012 ‘Miró! Poetry and light’ is a major exhibition in that it features more than 80 works by the Catalan maestro, 50 of which have not been seen before in Italy. There are large oil paintings, watercolours and works of sculpture in [...]
Titian and others – Milan exhibition, February 2012
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Tiziano e la nascita del paesaggio moderno.’ Milan, Palazzo Reale 16th February – 20th May 2012 ‘Titian and the birth of the modern landscape’ features more than 50 works by Titian, Bellini, Tintoretto, Veronese, Lotto and Giorgone; the exhibition guides the visitor through the 16th century birth referenced in the exhibition title via works garnered [...]
Avant-Garde art (from Guggenheim Collection) at Arca, Vercelli
January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘I Giganti Dell’Avanguardia: Miró, Mondrian, Calder e le Collezioni Guggenheim’ Vercelli, Arca, 5 Piazza del Municipio March 3rd – June 10th, 2012 Vercelli, ‘City of art’, is located roughly equidistant between Turin and Milan, and ‘Arca’, the principal exhibition centre, has previously been home to collections of works from the Guggenheim collection(s). To quote directly [...]
Ravenna exhibition: Miseria e splendore della Carne
January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Miseria e splendore della Carne’ Ravenna – Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna (MAR) 12th February – 17th June 2012 As the full title for this exhibition – ‘Miseria e splendore della Carne – Caravaggio, Courbet, Giacometti, Bacon… Testori e la grande pittura europea’ – suggests, the theme here is the interests and passions of [...]
Italy museums – free openings on Christmas and New Year’s day
December 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some (well, a lot) special openings on the 25th December 2011 and the 1st of January 2012, when many museums and archaeological sites across Italy will be open, free of charge. The list is a long one – see it here – but perhaps the most significant venue is the Colosseum in Rome which will [...]
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