Nineteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

A still life by Vincent Van Gogh at auction at Sotheby's: a $40 million piece

An important work by Vincent van Gogh (Zunder, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) will be featured in Sotheby's Modern Evening Auction, scheduled for November 2025 in New York. It is Romans Parisiens (Les Livres jaunes), a rare and luminous still life pai...
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Livorno celebrates Giovanni Fattori with a permanent itinerary in the places of the painter

An urban itinerary, ten stages, interactive panels, QR codes and multimedia content to restore voice to memories and places linked to Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 1825 - Florence, 1908). This is how Livorno celebrates the bicentenary of the painter's b...
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From Garda to Valpolicella, the Veronese landscape in the masters of the 19th and 20th centuries

A recent book by Gabriele Bissolo, published in 2021 but updated in subsequent years in new editions, entitled Painters in Verona 1850-1920 (Edizioni d'Arte Quinta Parete), has collected the biographies of as many as 280 painters active in Verona bet...
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Giovanni Fattori, a revolutionary painter. What the Livorno exhibition looks like

There is perhaps some significance in the fact that one of the biggest revolutions in painting of the 19th century started in Livorno. Vincenzo Farinella, lone curator of the Giovanni Fattori 200th anniversary exhibition that recently opened at Villa...
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From Guercino to Boldini: Fondantico brings two centuries of Emilian art to Rome

Tiziana Sassoli 's Fondantico Gallery will be among the exhibitors at the second edition of Art and Collecting in Rome, scheduled for September 18-23, 2025 at Palazzo Barberini, home of the National Galleries of Ancient Art. The Bologna-based gallery...
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The landscape-state of mind: when nature becomes feeling

In one of the most intense passages of Gabriele D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, namely the narration of the protagonist Andrea Sperelli 's convalescence after receiving a nasty wound in a duel (an episode that marks the end of the first part of D'Annunzio's...
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Between the 19th and 20th centuries, Antonacci Lapiccirella's masterpieces at Palazzo Barberini

Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art Gallery confirms its presence again in 2025 at Arte e Collezionismo, the national fair dedicated to Italy's antiquarians to be held Sept. 18-23 in the halls of Palazzo Barberini in Rome. At the second edition of the ev...
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Domodossola, Casa De Rodis turns 10: an exhibition tells the story of the Poscio Collection

Casa De Rodis, an exhibition space in the heart of Domodossola's historic center desired and created by the Poscio family to bring its art collection to life, turns 10 years old. To celebrate this milestone, the medieval palazzetto will host from Sep...
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