Brescia - Finestre sull'Arte

Boucher and Fragonard: the elegance of Louis XV's court on display at Casa Museo Zani

The Paolo and Carolina Zani Foundation House Museum in Cellatica, in the province of Brescia, hosts an exhibition that takes visitors back to the heart of Louis XV's court, amid luxury, elegance and symbols of power. From Feb. 14 through May 25, 2025...
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Brescia museums present 2025 exhibitions, from Matthias Stomer to Crepax

The year 2025 promises to be full of cultural and artistic events in Brescia: this morning the Brescia Musei Foundation presented an ambitious and varied program. The city wants to confirm itself as a leading cultural center, with an offer that range...
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How a masterpiece is reborn: The Garden of Villa Richiedei by Angelo Inganni

An important nineteenth-century work that is reborn thanks to a challenging and complex restoration, a small community that rediscovers one of the most important elements of its heritage. We are talking about the painting The Garden of Villa Richiede...
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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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