Who is Federico Giannini

Federico Giannini è giornalista, direttore responsabile di Finestre sull'Arte. Nato a Massa nel 1986, si è laureato nel 2010 in Informatica Umanistica all’Università di Pisa. Nel 2009 ha iniziato a lavorare nel settore della comunicazione su web, con particolare riferimento alla comunicazione per i beni culturali. Iscritto all’Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti dal 2017, specializzato in arte e storia dell’arte. Nel 2017 ha fondato con Ilaria Baratta la rivista Finestre sull’Arte, iscritta al registro della stampa del Tribunale di Massa dal giugno 2017. Dalla fondazione è direttore responsabile della rivista. Collabora e ha collaborato con diverse riviste, tra cui Art e Dossier e Left, e per la televisione è stato autore del documentario Le mani dell’arte (Rai 5) ed è stato tra i presentatori del programma Dorian – L’arte non invecchia (Rai 5). Ha esperienza come docente per la formazione professionale continua dell’Ordine e ha partecipato come relatore e moderatore su temi di arte e cultura a numerosi convegni (tra gli altri: Lu.Bec. Lucca Beni Culturali, Ro.Me Exhibition, Con-Vivere Festival, TTG Travel Experience).

All the articles by Federico Giannini on Finestre sull'Arte

Ancient art exhibitions in Italy are of the highest level. But on contemporary art...

by Federico Giannini , written on 02/01/2025

Categories: Opinions

What indications can be gleaned from Finestre Sull'Arte's ranking of the best exhibitions of 2024? This year, for the first time, our magazine has decided to embark on a novel operation: entrusting a jury of more than a hundred insiders with the task...
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When art and poetry were twins. What the exhibition "Painting and Poetry" at the Borghese Gallery looks like.

by Federico Giannini , written on 29/12/2024

Categories: Exhibition reviews

It's hard to pay attention to the base when admiring Bernini'sApollo and Daphne , caught up in that marvel of marble, Apollo's running, Daphne's fingers becoming branches and laurel leaves, Daphne's legs becoming a trunk, the nymph's lightness, Berni...
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Should Rai do more to broadcast art on the three main channels?

by Federico Giannini , written on 27/12/2024

Categories: Opinions

It is not comforting that the Christmas appointment with Alberto Angela is in danger of becoming a tradition, assuming that the popular popularizer has not already entered by popular acclaim among the characters of the holiday pantheon, along with Sa...
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Viboldone Abbey, monastic peace amid the chaos of Milan's suburbs

by Federico Giannini , written on 22/12/2024

Categories: Works and artists

On the one hand, the high-rise buildings of San Giuliano Milanese, the results of the 'building expansionism of the 1960s, the straight line of the railroad, the sequence of banks, grill shops, driving schools, turkish kebabs, hairdressers, furniture...
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The extraordinary relevance of Giorgio Vasari, modern artist. What the Arezzo exhibition looks like

by Federico Giannini , written on 15/12/2024

Categories: Exhibition reviews

In a letter dated May 10, 1548, Annibal Caro expresses to Giorgio Vasari his desire to take possession of one of his works, suggesting that it would be better if the work were done with some haste: not so much because Annibal Caro was in a hurry (and...
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What the dark Rome of the 1980s was like. Interview with Dino Ignani

by Federico Giannini , written on 08/12/2024

Categories: Interviews

A few months ago, an important selection of the Dark Portraitscycle by Dino Ignani (Rome, 1950), one of Italy's greatest photographers, became part of the collections of the Capitoline Superintendency of Roma Capitale. This important nucleus is on d...
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Return to futurism: here's what the National Gallery of Rome exhibition looks like

by Federico Giannini , written on 04/12/2024

Categories: Exhibition reviews

The public about to enter the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome has been queuing for seven years amid Davide Rivalta's lions, guardians against passatism, imperious felines ready to roar against everything that smacks of the ran...
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If the machine is an instrument of poetry. What the Jean Tinguely exhibition in Milan looks like.

by Federico Giannini , written on 01/12/2024

Categories: Exhibition reviews

Jean Tinguely returns to Milan seventy years after the first time and forty-four after he chose it to declare Nouveau Réalisme dead, on the tenth anniversary of its founding, that is, the time when all the artists of the movement gathered in M...
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