baroque art - Finestre sull'Arte

Andrea Pozzo's masterpiece: the Glory of St. Ignatius in Rome

The saint is above a cloud, borne in flight by a swarm of angels, moving over a sky that illusionistically breaks through the vault of the church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, in the heart of Rome: in front of him Jesus with the cross, in the corners th...
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An exhibition in Rome on the mysterious Flemish Michael Sweets

TheAccademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome is hosting an exhibition dedicated to one of the most mysterious Flemish artists of the 17th century, Michael Sweerts (Brussels, c. 1624 - Goa?, c. 1664). Entitled Michael Sweerts. Realities and Mysteries in...
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Canaletto, Van Wittel, Bellotto and their vision of Rome and Venice on display in Cuneo

The CRC Foundation and Intesa Sanpaolo present the exhibition Canaletto, Van Wittel, Bellotto. The Grand Theater of Cities. Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Ancient Art, open to the public from Nov. 30, 2024, to March 30, 2025, at the Comp...
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The fascination of antiquity and science in the William and Emma Hamilton exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia

Intesa Sanpaolo opens the Sir William and Lady Hamilton exhibition, curated by Francesco Leone and Fernando Mazzocca, at the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples from Oct. 25, 2024 to March 2, 2025. The exhibition explores the figure of William Hamilton (Henl...
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Three... Uffizi dragons arrive at Lucca Comics&Games for 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons

The Uffizi Galleries in Florence will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most famous fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, by presenting three 16th- and 17th-century engravings depicting the legendary monster, from works by Titian (Pi...
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Carlo Maratta's extraordinary portraiture goes on display in Rome's Palazzo Barberini

The year 2025 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of Carlo Maratta (Camerano, 1625 - Rome, 1713), one of the greatest painters of Baroque Rome and a central figure in seventeenth-century Italian painting. To mark this anniversary and the publica...
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The four grotesque heads that Bernini had made for his carriage

The public recently saw them at the Caravaggio and Bernini exhibition held in two stages between 2019 and 2020 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. They have only been exhibited twice in Italy: at Palazzo Strozz...
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At Ca' Rezzonico in Venice, Loris Cecchini's works dialogue with the palace's architecture

The exhibition project LORIS CECCHINI - Leaps, gaps and overlapping diagrams....... presents at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice from September 21, 2024 to March 31, 2025 ten new works by Loris Cecchini (Milan, 1969), and his artistic practice that has themod...
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