Genoa - Finestre sull'Arte

Outstanding discovery in Genoa, Caravaggio work found: it is an Adoration by Matthias Stomer

An important discovery in Genoa , where a Caravaggesque canvas, attributed to Matthias St omer, also known as Matthias Stom (Amersfoort, c. 1600 - Sicily, after 1650), a great Dutch painter, who was influenced by Caravaggio's followers from his coun...
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Genoa, raised by subscription funds to restore Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari's altarpiece

A fragment of Genoese history will soon come back to life. The fundraiser, launched a few days ago, for the restoration and enhancement of the altarpiece depicting St. Francis presenting the patron saints Ludwig IX King of France and Elizabeth Queen ...
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Berthe Morisot, the "dissident of the fairer sex" on Italian debut: what the Genoa and Turin exhibitions look like

Those who want to see Berthe Morisot's work from life this fall are forced to split their time between two venues within a couple of hours of each other: GAM in Turin and Palazzo Ducale in Genoa are hosting two exhibitions, both independent, to prese...
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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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