Lorenzo Bartolini - Finestre sull'Arte

Milan, an exhibition investigates the relationship between the city and Napoleon Bonaparte

To mark the bicentenary of Napoleon's death, the Carlo Orsi Gallery in Milan is hosting the exhibition Napoleon and Milan. Between Reality and Myth - The Image of Napoleon from Liberator to Emperor, a set of works celebrating the figure of the French...
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A poet and a countess in Venice: the love story between George Gordon Lord Byron and Teresa Gamba Guiccioli

They first met in Venice in the spring of 1819 in the drawing room of Countess Benzoni, one of the ladies who very often held receptions or simple "conversations" in her wealthy residence, and who was known at the time as the "Biondina in gondole...
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Around Ingres and Hayez: the Brera Art Gallery's 7th Dialogue celebrates the museum's refurbishment

At the conclusion of three years of refurbishing the 38 rooms of the Brera Art Gallery, the Milanese museum is celebrating with the opening of the 7th Dialogue, entitled"Around Ingres and Hayez. Different Looks on Mid-Nineteenth-Century Women," sched...
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