Nineteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

In Lucca, in the spaces of the Cavallerizza, Giovanni Boldini goes on display, with more than one hundred works

From December 2, 2025 to June 2, 2026, the spaces of the Cavallerizza in Piazzale Verdi in Lucca will host the exhibition Giovanni Boldini. The Seduction of Painting, curated by Tiziano Panconi and produced by Contemplazioni. The exhibition itinerar...
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VIVE exhibits the Shield of Garibaldi by Antonio Ximenes at Palazzo Venezia

The Shield of Garibaldi, created by Antonio Ximenes, returns today to Palazzo Venezia in Rome after a thorough restoration, offering the public a work that combines executive quality and symbolic value. The exhibition, curated by VIVE Director Edith ...
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Genoa rediscovers the 19th century: a journey through hidden masterpieces and the revolution of the real thing

Entitled Ottocento svelato. Tales of Collections and Museums in Nineteenth-Century Genoa, the articulated exhibition project that, in Genoa until March 29, 2026, aims to combine scientific research with museographic renewal, restoring centrality to ...
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The true face of Giovanni Segantini, between nature and idea. What the exhibition in Bassano del Grappa looks like.

We tend to associate Giovanni Segantini's painting with alpine landscapes, snow, and mountains. Angelo Conti, in Beata Riva, a fundamental treatise on aesthetics, said that Segantini was "the revealer of the mountain," because "no one like him ever h...
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Murano, new section on the 19th century opens at the Glass Museum

As of Dec. 12, 2025, the Murano Glass Museum will open to the public a new permanent section entirely dedicated to 19th-century glassmaking. The inauguration, part of the larger program of protection, enhancement and reorganization of museum spaces c...
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Salò, Museo della Città acquires Lecomte's Battle of Salò and prepares an exhibition for 2027

The collection of MuSa, the Museum of the City of Salò, is enriched with a new and significant piece of its artistic and historical memory. The Salodi institution has in fact acquired the drawing The Battle of Salò, a work by French pai...
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John Singer Sargent, cosmopolitan painter. What the Musée d'Orsay exhibition looks like.

The European visitor to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art who enters the unfamiliar and seductive space that is the American Wing, under its stained-glass windows that seem to seal off the works on display as if inside a crystal temple, cannot fa...
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From Besson's Dracula to Coppola: the works of art that inspired costume designer Eiko Ishioka

It's the talk of the web, it's raging on social media, and it's in theaters right now: Luc Besson's new film, Dracula - Love Lost, released Oct. 29 in Italian theaters, pays homage to Francis Ford Coppola's famous Dracula of Bram Stoker, a 1992 maste...
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