Genoa - Finestre sull'Arte

In the year of Genoa as the Italian Capital of Books, Rolli Days flips through history

From October 13 to 15, 2023, Rolli Days will return in their fall edition. In the year that Genoa is the Italian Capital of Books, ancient and precious volumes will be the main theme of the long-awaited event held every year in the Ligurian capital. ...
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Palazzo Ducale in Genoa does not renew appointment of director Bertolucci. New announcement coming soon

The Board of Directors of the Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura at yesterday's meeting resolved to start the selection of the Director who will take up the post from January 1, 2024. The Board therefore decided not to renew the position of dir...
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Ocean Race, Genoa opens the Palazzi dei Rolli and the city's most important churches for free

On Saturday, July 1 and Sunday, July 2, 2023, on the occasion of the final leg of the Ocean Race in Genoa, the Palazzi dei Rolli will open to the public free of charge from 6 to 10 p.m., and it will be the sea, from where goods destined for the merch...
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Iconographic Particularities in Seventeenth-Century Genoa. The Extraordinary and Everyday Exhibition.

The cramped exhibition spaces of the Palazzo della Meridiana in Genoa are not easy to manage in order to set up an exhibition within them: the risk of piling too many works on the walls due to the curators' fear of creating an incomplete project is j...
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Late Baroque masterpiece from Genoa rediscovered: Francesco Schiaffino's Immacolata

A villa in the Turin area, a late 19th-century photograph discovered by chance, the determination of two young antiquarians. And, above all, the rediscovery of a masterpiece of 18th-century Genoese sculpture that, after more than a century, h...
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Bernardo Strozzi's cook: a work of pilgrim ingenuity

His works will be "highly esteemed in every time and place" thanks to the "perfection in the use of brushes." This is how Raffaele Soprani, in Lives de pittori scoltori et, architetteti genovesi (1674), opens the medallion dedicated to Bernardo Stroz...
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The patronage of Andrea Doria

In 1540 the sculptor Leone Leoni (Arezzo, 1509 - Milan, 1590) was working as an engraver at the papal mint. The artist had embarked early on a brilliant career, played out in various Italian centers and a prelude to the international success that wou...
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Rubens and the Palaces of Genoa: beyond the Superb Mastery of the Brush

"Color is not stone." These simple words, attributed to Pieter Paul Rubens by Jacob Burckhardt, allow us to understand the neuralgic centrality held by the "Father of the Baroque," but, at the same time, they might limit the analysis of a personality...
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