Romanticism - Finestre sull'Arte

Milan, here's the big exhibition on Italian Romanticism: Hayez and colleagues in the company of Turner, Friedrich and others. Photos

The Gallerie d'Italia in Milan 's Piazza Scala and the Poldi Pezzoli Museum are dedicating their 2018-2019 winter exhibition, from October 26, 2018 to March 17, 2019, to ItalianRomanticism: it's Romanticism, an important exhibition, curated by one of...
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Anticipation. A huge exhibition on Romanticism this fall in Milan.

A major exhibition on Romanticism, simply titled Romanticism, will be held this fall-winter in Milan, from October 26, 2018 to March 17, 2019, over two venues: the Gallerie d'Italia in Piazza Scala and the Poldi Pezzoli Museum. The exhibition is cur...
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Francesco Hayez's The Kiss: how many and what are the versions?

One of the most striking moments of recent exhibition seasons in Italy was the simultaneous presence on the same wall in Milan of three versions of the Kiss, one of the most famous paintings by Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 - 1882), the great genius ...
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The Victorian hedonism of Lawrence Alma-Tadema

In this new Descubrir el Arte article written by Natalia de Val Navares and translated by Ilaria, we review the biography and artistic career of Lawrence Alma-Tadema. So to learn more about this artist, do not hesitate to read the article! ;) ...
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Cities of the Grand Tour: a beautiful exhibition without big names

The Giorgio Conti Foundation in Carrara continues its 2016 programming with what we can consider the year's flagship exhibition, Grand Tour Cities from the Hermitage and Apuan Landscapes from Italian Collections, curated by Sergej Androsov and Massim...
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Hayez: the drawings, the study, the method. Interview with Francesca Valli

Until January 21, you can visit an important exhibition on Francesco Hayez, organized in parallel with the major exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan. It is Hayez at Brera. The workshop of a painter, set up at the Sala Napoleonica of theBrera...
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Francesco Hayez and his grossest woman of the vulgar in the guise of Venus

There are good margins of certainty to say that, in this day and age, we would all have ignored the name of Carlotta Chabert, a mid-nineteenth-century ballerina, were it not for one specific circumstance: the fact that she was the mistress of a wealt...
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Caspar David Friedrich's art in Disney's film Fantasia.

As a child, I routinely refused to watch Disney's movie Fantasia: the one that, as you may remember, was divided into several episodes based on famous pieces of classical music, directed by Leopold Stokowski. Shortly before the end of the film, there...
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