Realism - Finestre sull'Arte

Riva del Garda, MAG hosts lesser-known works of the 20th century from the Mart

MAG, Museo Alto Garda, has scheduled until October 29 the exhibition From Futurism to Informalism. Hidden Masterpieces in the Mart's Collections. The result of a decade-long collaboration with the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trent a...
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"I know my country, I paint it": Gustave Courbet and nature

He is seen proud and self-confident, looking toward the viewer in an almost haughty attitude, in the company of his faithful dog, a black spaniel. It is Gustave Courbet (Ornans, 1819 - La Tour-de-Peilz, 1877) himself who is seated in the foregr...
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Child labor in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a journey through works of art

In 1877, the Parliament of the young Kingdom of Italy established the start of an inquiry into the reality of the country'sagrarian economy sixteen years after Unification: the documents that the inquiry commission collected represent the most de...
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Vincenzo Vela's Victims of Labor, a powerful and moving memorial to those who died at work

On May 23, 1882, the Gotthard Railway Tunnel was officially opened. It was one of the most important technological achievements of the time: it was the longest railway tunnel in the world, a fifteen-kilometer, three-meter tunnel that ran through ...
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Sleeping children in purist art from Giovanni Dupré to Tito Sarrocchi

When Giovanni Dupré (Siena, 1817 - Florence, 1882) first exhibited his Sleep of Innocence, a marble sculpture he had begun working on in 1844, the success it garnered was considerable and unanimous. He presented it in public that it was not ye...
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Art and sport. Fencing according to Arturo Rietti

Long is the list of artists who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at the dawn of modern sports, began to take an interest in a wide variety of sports, to the point of becoming athletes themselves: Gustave Caillebotte in his spare...
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The sea and beaches of Ettore Tito, the Paolo Veronese with kodak

When Ettore Tito (1859 - 1941) exhibited his marvelous work July, which had just been completed, at the 1894 Esposizioni Riunite in Milan, the writer Leone Fortis, who dedicated a book to those Expositions, described the painting as a "scene of bathi...
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