Ferrara - Finestre sull'Arte

Mucha and Boldini in Ferrara, a glittering exhibition

Sparkling exhibition the one dedicated by the city of Ferrara, in the splendid Palazzo dei Diamanti, to the lovable painting of Mucha and Boldini for this long and captivating spring of 2025. A happy idea that rediscovers a European painter of such h...
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The Restoration Exhibition 2025: Ferrara becomes the world center for heritage conservation

From May 14 to 16, 2025, the city of Ferrara will host one of the most prestigious and relevant events in the field of restoration: the Salone del Restauro. An event that, with its 30th birthday, renews its international reputation, consolidating its...
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Ferrara, city acquires an early masterpiece by Previati for its museums

Ferrara is celebrating the entry into its public collections of a key work by its most celebrated Divisionist painter, Gaetano Previati (Ferrara, 1852 - Lavagna, 1920). It is the painting Tranquility in the Family (circa 1887), an oil on canvas measu...
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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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When art in the Renaissance was also political propaganda: Garofalo's masterpiece

It is an episode in the history of the Renaissance perhaps not known to many, but certainly the Battle of Polesella can be counted among the most singular ones, and not only because in the aftermath of this Ferrara military feat, events ensued that l...
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An intense journey among the great and forgotten of the 16th century in Ferrara. What the exhibition at the Palazzo dei Diamanti looks like

If we were to accompany Jacob Burckhardt on his visits to the galleries of Rome and listen to him as he pauses to describe the pieces that most and best captured his interest, we would most likely derive sharp adjectives from them, suitable for defin...
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If Jupiter paints butterflies: the magical painting by Dosso Dossi

Dosso Dossi had a boundless imagination: his whimsical, versatile, ingenious, imaginative flair is among the most celebrated in the history of art, and few in his era could come close to his visionary imagination. A myth, a literary text, a biblical ...
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Ferrara's chained bear: possible hypotheses about its meaning

Beyond the attributive proposals and the possible destination of the panels, the fierce chained bear in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Ferrara remains an extremely eloquent and fascinating element, whose enigmatic nature sums up the mystery that still s...
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