Neoclassicism - Finestre sull'Arte

The entire 19th-century wing of the Gypsotheca Canova Museum reopens: full tour returns after seven years

In Possagno, starting Sunday, December 1, 2024, visitors will once again be able to explore the entire Antonio Canova Gypsotheca Museum: in fact, the19th-century wing reopens in its entirety, returned after seven years of closure for restoration work...
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Mantua, the neoclassical dressing rooms of the Ducal Palace, discovered last year, open to the public

Important news at the Ducal Palace in Mantua, with a surprising reopening. In fact, on the occasion of the European Heritage Days 2024 on Saturday, September 28 and Sunday, September 29, 2024, some spaces of Corte Vecchia, hitherto closed to the publ...
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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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Masterpieces by Canova and Lombard Neoclassicism move from Brera to Palermo after 122 years

Sculptural masterpieces by Antonio Canova, Giovanni Pandiani, Pietro Magni, and Giovanni Spertini have been sent on a 122-year journey from Milan to Palermo and are now on display in Palermo's Royal Palace for the exhibition La Grande Brera al Palazz...
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The Arc de Triomphe, history of a symbol of Paris

It concludes these 33rd Olympics held in Paris, 100 years after the previous Olympic Games were held in the French capital. Athletes, before returning home, will be able to choose from a wide range of souvenirs with various references to artistic her...
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Canova and Hayez, Olympus on the Lake: the exhibition at Villa Carlotta

From June 22 to September 30, 2024 at Villa Carlotta in Tremezzina it will be possible to visit L'Olimpo sul lago. Canova, Thorvaldsen, Hayez and the Treasures of the Sommariva Collection, an exhibition curated by Fernando Mazzocca, Maria Angela Prev...
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Temples of Darkness: on the Neoclassicism of Étienne-Louis Boullée

On the eve of the French Revolution, before the fall of the heads of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, a desire for new moral values in society and in the various arts was felt throughout France. With the end of the Baroque style, for the artist the ne...
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Art Institute of Chicago acquires important self-portrait by Antonio D'Este

Major acquisition by theArt Institute of Chicago , which secures theSelf-Portrait of Antonio D'Este (Burano, 1755 - Rome, 1837), Antonio Canova's favorite pupil and main collaborator. Making the announcement on his Instagram profile is Emerson Bowyer...
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