Brescia - Finestre sull'Arte

Restless renaissance and viaticum padani, from Brescia to Ferrara

In recent decades, historians have declined some historical categories in the plural. Thus the monolithic and imperious Renaissance, with a capital letter, has begun to break down into multiple renaissances, where the adjective regionalist has gained...
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In Brescia, the works of Sudanese dissident Khalid Albaih: art and activism on display

The Municipality of Brescia, Fondazione Brescia Musei and the Peace Festival present Khalid Albaih. The Season of Migration to the North, a solo exhibition dedicated to Sudanese artist, curator and activist Khalid Albaih (Bucharest, 1980), curated by...
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Brescia, a major exhibition on the Brescian Renaissance at the Museum of Santa Giulia

From October 18, 2024 to February 16, 2025, Brescia is hosting a major exhibition dedicated to the Renaissance in the city that starts with a long series of questions. How did people live in the sixteenth century in one of the most populous cities of...
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Brescia, finishes restoration of Andrea Marone's Madonna of the Milk

Important restoration in Brescia, where work has been completed on the Madonna Enthroned Suckling the Child by Andrea Marone da Manerbio, a member of a family of artists with deep roots in Renaissance Brescia. The restoration of the fresco, executed ...
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Titian's Averoldi Polyptych, "la migliore pictura ch'el facesse mai"

Not the Venus of Urbino, not theAmor sacro e amor profano: it was the Averoldi Polyptych, a large oil-on-poplar-wood altarpiece, the work that Titian Vecellio loved more than any of his other creations. Or at least that is what Alfonso I d'Es...
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In Brescia, great photographers tell the private face of Pier Paolo Pasolini

From March 31 to July 24, 2022, Mo.Ca - Center for New Cultures in Brescia presents the exhibition Pier Paolo Pasolini. To be a poet, one must have a lot of time, curated by Renato Corsini and Gerardo Martorelli. The exhibition aims to show the publ...
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Bergamo-Brescia Culture Capital 2023: The Enlightened City is the theme of the dossier

Presented this morning at the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan the dossier of Bergamo-Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023. The theme of the dossier, realized thanks to the support of Bocconi University's ASK - Art, Science and Knowledge Research Center...
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Milan, Palazzo Marino's Christmas exhibition returns: the Renaissance of Bergamo and Brescia

After a year's stop due to the pandemic, the Christmas appointment with art at Palazzo Marino is back: the City of Milan is offering citizens an exhibition on the Renaissance in the cities of Bergamo and Brescia, presenting four masterpieces by great...
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