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. Al suo attivo anche docenze in materia di giornalismo culturale (presso Università di Genova e Ordine dei Giornalisti). 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). Partecipa regolarmente 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

What are the trends in young contemporary painting today? A quick overview

by Federico Giannini , written on 30/03/2025

Categories: Works and artists

Those who are used to flipping through art magazines know that art magazines like to offer their audiences looks and analysis in the form of rankings. The ten best booths at the fair, the twenty artists to watch out for, the thirty exhibitions of the...
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In Lucca, among the splendors of Palazzo Mansi and its National Museum.

by Federico Giannini , written on 23/03/2025

Categories: Works and artists

He had been to Lucca, the father of American realist literature. William Dean Howells had arrived in Lucca one day in April, leaving from Pisa under a sun that already at eight o'clock in the morning seemed hot and sickening, he who was used to the c...
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Florence, why is Giannelli no good and Price is?

by Federico Giannini , written on 19/03/2025

Categories: Opinions

Problem: Given the indignant shrieks with which insiders have been accompanying the installation of Emanuele Giannelli's sculptures in front of the headquarters of the Region of Tuscany in Florence for days, the candidate should explain, possibly con...
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Palazzo Barberini and Caravaggio. In the bedlam of the blockbuster exhibition of the year.

by Federico Giannini , written on 16/03/2025

Categories: Exhibition reviews

One struggles beyond measure to catch a glimpse of an exhibition in the exhibition halls of Palazzo Barberini, where for just over a week the public has been admitted to a new, unfailing, unmissable Caravaggio epiphany, organized to coincide with the...
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Gaudenzian cartoons in Turin's Pinacoteca Albertina, a unique Renaissance treasure in the world

by Federico Giannini , written on 09/03/2025

Categories: Works and artists

It makes no noise, the brush brushing against the canvas. Not even a slight rustle, not even the faintest crinkle. The bristles distribute the color caressing the surface of the canvas without making themselves heard. The paintings are born in silenc...
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Has futurism in Rome made its way into the hearts of Italians? Perhaps not

by Federico Giannini , written on 06/03/2025

Categories: Opinions

Two more months of the Futurism exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art: the extension for the exhibition, which was supposed to end last Feb. 28, comes after the Ministry of Culture found it to be a success. For Minister Al...
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The mild abstractionism of Gabriele Landi

by Federico Giannini , written on 02/03/2025

Categories: Works and artists

For some time now, Gabriele Landi has taken to making cardboard or aluminum sculptures that always start from thin, light, simple sheets. They have inaugurated a new strand in his research, a refined, constant quest, always striving to explore the bo...
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Are they closing the Leonardo3 Museum to put a restaurant in its place? Director speaks

by Federico Giannini , written on 23/02/2025

Categories: Interviews

The Leonardo3 Museum in Milan risks closure: this is the possible effect of a bureaucratic-administrative dispute over the space in which the facility is located, which has been dragging on since 2023 and has already reached the Lombardy Regional Adm...
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