All the articles by Ilaria Baratta on Finestre sull'Arte

The book in art throughout the centuries. What the exhibition in Genoa looks like

How have books been represented in art from the Middle Ages to contemporary times? It is a vast topic, if one thinks of how many paintings and sculptures over all these centuries have depicted a book in the hands of a portrait subject or in a still l...
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Julien Creuzet's France Pavilion: a total artwork for thinking about a different world

It happens very rarely to enter an immersive environment and completely abandon oneself to one's surroundings. It happened to me at the Venice Biennale, after facing a long queue (as is now customary to visit certain pavilions), entering the Pavilion...
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When Monet and colleagues invented Impressionism: what the major exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay looks like

A unique exhibition, the kind you will never see again, or at any rate it will be a long time before you see one of the same caliber: the occasion is truly special, the 150th anniversary of the birth of French Impressionism, and if the desire was to ...
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From train in the snow to water lilies. What the Monet exhibition in Padua looks like.

It sometimes happens that a selection of works from a famous international museum moves en bloc to create an exhibition in Italy with masterpieces from that museum venue alone, generally emphasizing the concept and the extraordinariness of the event ...
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Tale of an evening at the Uffizi. What the museum looks like at sunset (and what visitors think of it)

It is inevitable: thinking about how many people storm the Uffizi during daylight hours can inhibit the desire to visit one of the most beautiful and important museums we have in Italy. So many people may feel discouragement and even a certain nervou...
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The Borges Labyrinth. A garden to pay homage to the writer

Among the most enigmatic forms sinceantiquity, the labyrinth has often fascinated artists and writers, who in turn have reinterpreted it to give metaphorical meaning to this ancient symbol. Jorge Luis Borges (Buenos Aires, 1899 - Geneva, 1986), one o...
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Miart 2024: how much do the works cost? Our selection of 15 works, with prices

The twenty-eighth edition of Miart, the international modern and contemporary art fair in Milan organized by Fiera Milano, has opened, and as has been customary for some time now at contemporary art fairs, we asked some galleries for the price of som...
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"There is still a desire to collect ancient art in Italy." Antiquarian Flavio Gianassi speaks.

How is the situation of the antiques market in Italy today? What about internationally? How has antiques changed in the last 20 years? Is antiques valued enough today? We talked about this with Flavio Gianassi, who in 2013 founded and since then has ...
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