Nineteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

From Mount Fuji to Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius: a history of geological art

"We belong to something beautiful," promise the billboards for a multinational cosmetics company. Instead, according to Kant, it is beauty that is inherent in us, and intelligible only through the lens of feelings. The basis of modern thought lies be...
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France, an exhibition in Loches dedicated to Louis Delaporte, the man who discovered Angkor

In 2025, the town of Loches, located in the heart of the Loire Valley, celebrates the centenary of the death of one of its illustrious sons, Louis Delaporte (Loches, 1842 - Paris, 1925), explorer, archaeologist, and artist. Born in 1842, Delaporte is...
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Canova's Colossal Horse will return to display after 50 years

After decades of waiting, Antonio Canova 's Colossal Horse is preparing to return to public display in the Civic Museums of Bassano del Grappa. This monumental work, among the last created by the Possagno sculptor, which remained unfinished after his...
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Gypsotheca Antonio Canova Museum: an eventful 2025 among art, photography and theater

After the recent reopening of the19th-century wing, the Antonio Canova Gypsotheca Museum in Possagno is preparing for a 2025 full of cultural events, with a calendar of exhibitions, photography workshops, theater performances and educational activiti...
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Van Gogh on film with a film about the National Gallery's exhibition-event

Following the planetary success of Loving Vincent, Vincent Van Gogh returns to the center of a new film date that promises to enchant moviegoers. On March 4 and 5, 2025, Nexo Studios presents in Italian theaters the film Van Gogh. Poets and Lovers, a...
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How a masterpiece is reborn: The Garden of Villa Richiedei by Angelo Inganni

An important nineteenth-century work that is reborn thanks to a challenging and complex restoration, a small community that rediscovers one of the most important elements of its heritage. We are talking about the painting The Garden of Villa Richiede...
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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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In bookstores, the story of Otama Kiyohara in comics, Japanese painter who brought oriental art to Sicily

Coming January 24 to bookstores and comic shops is La Vita di Otama, which tells the fascinating story of the Japanese painter who brought Oriental art to Sicily. The result of an unpublished collaboration between cartoonist Andrea Accardi and Japane...
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