Lucca - Finestre sull'Arte

Digitized and accessible to all the letters of Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi

Digitized letters of Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi: thanks to a memorandum of understanding between the president of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, Marcello Bertocchini, and the president of the Fondation Napoléon, Victor-André...
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Torre del Lago, fundraiser launched to restore the Giacomo Puccini Garden

In 2024, Italy celebrated an important anniversary linked to the figure of Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 1858 - Brussels, 1924): the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. And today, as 2024 draws to a close, the Simonetta Puccini Foundation is launchi...
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Three... Uffizi dragons arrive at Lucca Comics&Games for 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons

The Uffizi Galleries in Florence will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most famous fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, by presenting three 16th- and 17th-century engravings depicting the legendary monster, from works by Titian (Pi...
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From Paolo Guinigi to Lorenzo Trenta: patronage in fifteenth-century Lucca

The ancient history of Lucca is closely linked to the Guinigi, one of the most important and influential families of merchants and bankers in the city. Consider, for example, the famous tower that bears their name, the Guinigi Tower, erected at the ...
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Canova in Lucca: an exhibition on Lucca's neoclassicism... in disguise

Vittorio Sgarbi has not changed one iota the formula of the "exhibition in disguise" (so we could call it, taking up a definition that, moreover, is his), proposed for the second year in a row to the public of Lucca. Last year with an exhibition, suc...
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Bernardino and Pietro Nocchi's drawings on display in Lucca, the elegance of the neoclassical stroke

The National Museum of Palazzo Mansi in Lucca is hosting the exhibition L'eleganza del tratto. Drawings by Bernardino and Pietro Nocchi, curated by Luisa Berretti. The exhibition, scheduled, until April 14, 2024, is organized by the Regional Museums ...
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Ilaria del Carretto's monument, the beautiful tomb in Lucca Cathedral

One enters the sacristy of the Cathedral of San Martino in Lucca in respectful silence, to pay homage to that young woman who has been lying on her sarcophagus for more than six hundred years. The cathedral holds masterpieces by important artists ins...
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Pompeo Batoni returns to Lucca: the Prometheus and Atalanta on display in the artist's hometown

From June 18 to October 2, 2022, two important canvases that recently entered the Collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, which purchased them to return them to the area, will be on display for free to the public in the Church of Sa...
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