Oriental art - Finestre sull'Arte

Norman Jones donation on display at Bologna's Museo Civico Medievale

From Nov. 23, 2024 to May 5, 2025, in the Lapidarium of the Museo Civico Medievale in Bologna, will be on display a selection of 47 pieces, including Indo-Islamic Murshidaba miniatures, Hindu-inspired statues and objects, Japanese woodcuts, netsuke, ...
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In Rome, Napoleonic Museum dedicates exhibition to collecting oriental art

The Napoleonic Museum in Rome is hosting from March 15 to September 8, 2024 an exhibition dedicated to collecting Oriental and Japanese art: Giuseppe Primoli and the Fascination of the Orient, in conjunction with the exhibition Ukiyoe. The Floating W...
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Venice, Suzhou clothing fabrics on display at Palazzo Mocenigo

With the exhibition The Axis of Time. Silk Clothing Fabrics from Suzhou at the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo officially opened the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo's death. The exhibition, which will remain open until Feb. 29, is pa...
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Milan, an exhibition dedicated to contemporary Chinese art at the Fabbrica del Vapore

Until recently China seemed a remote, distant, mysterious place. Revealing itself it has suddenly upset all the hitherto established hierarchies, both historically, socially and economically and, of course, also artistically and culturally. Suddenly ...
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Genoa, Chiossone Museum reopens after two years with an exhibition on the role of water in Japan

From June 24 to September 23, 2023, the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa will host the exhibition The Great Wave. The Importance of Water in Japanese Culture, on the occasion of the grand finale of Ocean Race. Closed since September...
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Japanese landscapes on silk dresses: Fabio Truffa's exhibition at the Venice Museum of Oriental Art

The Museum of Oriental Art in Venice will present from November 19, 2022 to January 8, 2023 some silk paintings by San Remo artist Fabio Truffa on the occasion of the exhibition project Ashes of Reflection. The works by Fabio Truffa (San Remo, 1960) ...
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A Japanese spa complex is one of 107 prints acquired by the Venice Museum of Oriental Art

The Museum of Oriental Art in Venice is enriched thanks to a new acquisition: a compulsory purchase by way of pre-emption made by the General Directorate of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape - Service IV of the Ministry of Culture, following the r...
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Do you know the history of Korean art? There is an exhibition in Rome featuring Korean artists past and present

From February 25 to March 26, 2020, theKorean Cultural Institute in Rome presents From the past, an exhibition that formally presents itself as a modern multimedia art exhibition, but the distinctiveness is found in the fact that the subjects and sou...
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