Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

A rare still life by Van Gogh will be offered for sale at the Tefaf in Maastricht

A rare still life by Vincent van Gogh (Zundert, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) will be offered for sale at the Tefaf in Maastricht, the major antique art market exhibition whose 38th edition will be held March 15-20, 2025. Bringing Van Gogh's work to ...
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Giacinto Cerone, free and independent sculptor: interview with curator Marco Tonelli

From January 18 to April 27, 2025, the exhibition Giacinto Cerone is on view at the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. The Necessary Angel, an anthological exhibition dedicated to Giacinto Cerone (Melfi, 1957 - Rome, 2004), a singular sc...
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Margherita Sarfatti: who was really the art critic who 'created' the Duce

That of Margherita Sarfatti (Margherita Grassini; Venice, 1880 - Cavallasca, 1961) is not a name frequently encountered in school textbooks, yet her influence spanned decades of Italian history, intertwining with the artistic and political currents o...
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Why do we like landscape painting?

Writing to his brother Theo and sister-in-law Jo in mid-July 1890, a few days before he died, Vincent van Gogh said he had painted three large canvases, three "expanses of wheat fields under turbulent skies," and said he had painted them trying to lo...
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Treviso, more than 100 works by great artists tell the sublime love between Mary Magdalene and Christ

From April 5 to July 13, 2025, the Museo Civico di Santa Caterina in Treviso will host the exhibition Magdalene and the Cross. Sublime Love to tell through more than one hundred works how great artists have addressed the emotional potential and theme...
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In Bergamo, Italy's first two art fairs of 2025, from antique to contemporary to high antiques

From Jan. 10-19, 2025, Bergamo opens the Italian art fair calendar with two events: the 20th edition of BAF Bergamo Arte Fiera, dedicated to modern and contemporary art (Jan. 10-12), and the 8th edition of IFA Italian Fine Art, focusing on ancient ar...
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Art is not just beauty: works are not passive. On the exhibition of works confiscated from the Mafia.

It has often been repeated, slavishly following a pure and forcibly utopian ideal, that art elevates and purifies the soul of the viewer lost in the world. But art has not been (and probably never will be) a mere site of that longed-for "beauty," or ...
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Florence, Academy Gallery acquires important sketch by Luigi Pampaloni

The Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence enriches its collections with a valuable terracotta statuette by Luigi Pampaloni (Florence, 1791 - 1847): it is the preparatory sketch for Venus at the Bath, which will be exhibited in the Gipsoteca - alongside...
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