Twentieth Century - Finestre sull'Arte

Ghosts, myths, visions: this is Symbolism in Italy. What the Magnani Rocca exhibition looks like.

It may provoke mild, amused unease to think that the Villa Borghese painted by Onorato Carlandi is pure invention, a pagan fantasy, the shredding of a dream. It does not exist, that Villa Borghese. There is not the great, sinister, shadowy oak that C...
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Great Art at the Movies continues with a documentary on Lucio Fontana, May 25, 26 and 27 only

The second event of the new season of La Grande Arte al Cinema will be dedicated to Lucio Fontana. The documentary Lucio Fontana, The Final Cut, produced by Nexo Studios and Good Day Films, will arrive in Italian theaters on May 25, 26 and 27, 2026. ...
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Churchill painter: at the Wallace Collection, London, the first major posthumous exhibition in the UK

The Wallace Collection in London is dedicating a major retrospective to the paintings of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), the first major posthumous exhibition in the United Kingdom devoted to his art. The exhibition, open to the public from May 23...
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The Maritime Republics, the birth of a myth: from nineteenth-century intuition to fascism

The concept of "maritime republics" is of relatively recent invention , a formulation owed to a Swiss historian named Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi and in particular to his Histoire des républiques italiennes du moyen â...
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At Castel Sant'Angelo, the Cambellotti Rooms reopen to the public for the exhibition dedicated to Duilio Cambellotti

At Castel Sant'Angelo, the Cambellotti Rooms (the Hall of Columns, the Assault Units Room and the Cavalry Room), decorated by Duilio Cambellotti between 1925 and 1926 to house the flags of the disbanded regiments after World War I, reopen to the publ...
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In Aosta, 120 works explore the relationship between Chagall and the biblical message

The Regional Archaeological Museum of Aosta welcomes from June 20 to October 25, 2026 the exhibition Marc Chagall. Between Poetry and Spirituality, curated by Grégory Couderc, Anne Dopffer and Alberto Fiz. Organized by the Department of Educat...
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Mart in Rovereto showcases all the works of Giacomo Balla in the Biagiotti collection

The MART Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto is hosting for the first time in Italy the entire collection of works by Giacomo Balla belonging to the Biagiotti Cigna Foundation and the private collection of Laura and Lavinia B...
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Verbania dedicates a major anthological exhibition to Alessandro Mendini with 130 works

From May 16 to September 27, 2026 Villa Giulia in Verbania hosts the exhibition Alessandro Mendini. Things. Rooms as Worlds, an extensive anthological exhibition dedicated to Alessandro Mendini (Milan, 1931-2019), a central figure in twentieth-centur...
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