Parma - Finestre sull'Arte

Parma, major acquisition for the Pilotta: Giorgio Gandini del Grano's Allegory of Parma arrives

A new masterpiece of Parma Mannerism joins the collection of the National Gallery at the Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta in Parma. It is theAllegory of the City of Parma by Giorgio Gandini del Grano (Parma, c. 1500 - 1538), acquired thanks to fun...
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Parma, an exhibition on alternative media to white paper for printing at the Pilotta

The Fondazione Museo Bodoniano, in collaboration with the Complesso monumentale della Pilotta di Parma, presents Not Only Paper White, an innovative exhibition dedicated to the lesser-known printing media that have accompanied the history of typograp...
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Parma, Antica Spezieria di San Giovanni reopens to the public, restored and fully refurbished

As of October 20, 2024, the Ancient Spice Shop of St. John in Parma reopens to the public after a long restoration, entirely refurbished with the opening of four new exhibition spaces, in addition to the four rooms that can already be visited. Since ...
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Antonio Farnese's Apartment at the Rocca di Sala Baganza opens to the public for the first time.

An important first for a significant eighteenth-century fresco cycle: in fact, at the Rocca di Sala Baganza (Parma), theapartment of Antonio Farnese, located on the piano nobile within the private portion of the Rocca, opens to the public for the fir...
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Parma exults by opening its doors wide again to Correggio

Next September 8, the city of Parma will inaugurate an exceptional and very singular exhibition: an unforgettable Fifth Centenary of Correggio's creative cycle. Indeed, the "secularia quinta" of the Painter's extraordinary presence on the Italian art...
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More on Correggio's frescoes in the dome of the abbey church of San Giovanni in Parma

As already written in the December 31, 2023issue of "Finestre sull'Arte," in the 1980s Parma was becoming a small restoration capital in Italy. The then Vicar General of the Diocese, Monsignor Franco Grisenti, a priest with great organizational skill...
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The Madonna of Albinea, Correggio's masterpiece in the heart of the Italian Renaissance

The Madonna of Albinea, painted by Correggio in 1519, stands as a singular compositional and executive pivot at a temporal juncture of the height of the Italian Renaissance; that artistic phenomenon that had already reached the "great manner" and tha...
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A traveling exhibition featuring ten Dalla songs reinterpreted in urban art stops in Parma

From December 17 to 23, 2022, the church of San Marcellino in Parma's Collegio dei Nobili street will host the traveling exhibition A volte basta una canzone. Lucio Dalla, 10 songs on display, under the patronage of the City of Parma. Already presen...
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