Cortona - Finestre sull'Arte

Cortona's double exhibition on the history of weapons from the Middle Ages to the 18th century

The Craft of Arms, the two-location exhibition in Cortona that examines the history of arms from the late Middle Ages to the 18th century, will be on view from Aug. 24 to Sept. 8, 2024, and is curated by Sergio Angori, Paolo Bruschetti and Paolo Giul...
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All of Luca Signorelli in just two rooms. What the five-hundredth anniversary exhibition in Cortona looks like

Seventy precise years separate the first modern monographic exhibition on Luca Signorelli, the one held in 1953 first in Cortona and then in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi, from the more recent one, namely the one organized this year for the 500th anniv...
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An exhibition in Cortona investigates the architectural and pictorial Baroque of Pietro da Cortona

The Museum of the Etruscan Academy and the City of Cortona (MAEC) welcomes in its halls, from June 18 to September 18, 2022, the exhibition Del Barocco Ingegno. Pietro da Cortona and the Architectural Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the ...
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Beato Angelico's Annunciation of Cortona: divine light reflecting on earth

What place does Beato Angelico occupy in the development of Italian art? Pavel Pavlovič Muratov asked that question in 1929. And it is a question to which many scholars, more or less explicitly, have attempted to give an answer, tr...
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In Cortona the first exhibition dedicated to the lights of the Etruscans

Cortona hosts the first exhibition dedicated to light in the Etruscan world: from June 5 to September 12, 2021, the exhibition Luci dalle tenebre, dai lumi degli Etruschi ai bagliori di Pompei, which brings together artifacts from prestigious Italian...
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