Nineteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

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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The rediscovery of Paul Troubetzkoy starts in Paris. What the Musée d'Orsay exhibition looks like.

Enzo Azzoni, a ninety-five-year-old Verbano photographer and runner who at his young age still continues to win Italian masters championships in track and field, is right. He is right when he says that we must not forget that today we can know and ap...
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Sketches and sketches from the National Museums of Vomero: a unified project in the Spezieria of Naples

From Dec. 4, 2025 to April 13, 2026, the Spezieria of the Certosa di San Martino in Naples will host the exhibition It's not just model, but finished painting, a project of the Vomero National Museums that introduces the public to the preliminary sta...
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The Metropolitan Museum in New York dedicates a major retrospective exhibition to Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck

Celebrated in the Nordic countries, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) still remains little known outside that geographical area. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is dedicating Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck...
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Two new galleries dedicated to Lino Selvatico and Arturo Martini open at Treviso's Bailo Museum

At the Bailo Museum in Treviso, new exhibition spaces on the second floor are about to be opened to the public, including two galleries that had never been accessible to visitors since the museum's last structural renovation completed in 2022. The op...
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Andrea Appiani beyond Napoleon: Milan rediscovers the painter of beauty. What the exhibition looks like

Almost half of what is preserved at the Brera Art Gallery is due to the ideas and taste of a man, Andrea Appiani, who was well regimented within the Napoleonic bureaucratic apparatus. Right from the start: as early as 1796, the year of Napoleon's arr...
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The Italiens de Paris: the Belle Époque told at Palazzo Blu. What the Pisa exhibition is like

It could have been titled Les Italiens de Paris the Belle Époque exhibition currently running at Palazzo Blu in Pisa until April 7, 2026, and indeed the subtitle reads "Italian Painters in Paris in the Age of Impressionism." In fact, the prota...
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Luigi Norfini and the Italy of the Risorgimento: the great exhibition in Lucca and Pescia

From December 20, 2025 to April 26, 2026, the National Museums of Lucca and the Palazzo Galeotti Museum in Pescia are hosting The King's Painter. Luigi Norfini in the Italy of the Risorgimento, the first major monographic exhibition dedicated to the ...
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