Twentieth Century - Finestre sull'Arte

Florence and Deco: Medici Riccardi Palace recounts the city's role in the 1920s

From April 2 to August 25, 2026, Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence is hosting Firenze Déco. Atmospheres of the 1920s, an exhibition that investigates the role the city played in the spread ofArt Deco in Italy and in the European context. The...
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Empoli 1925: when a small room changed the artistic destiny of a province

Empoli, summer of 1925: a small room located at the end of a vegetable garden on Via Tripoli becomes the center of gravity for a new generation of creative artists and returns to us today the image not of a motionless and silent province, like the on...
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200 works to tell the story of the Baroque and the twentieth century: the great exhibition of 2026 in Forli

From February 21 to June 28, 2026, the San Domenico Civic Museum in Forli will host the exhibition Baroque. The Grand Theater of Ideas, a major exhibition dedicated to one of the central seasons of European culture and its long influence on modernity...
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Where is Chagall's pure soul hidden? Against goodist views

If one steps outside the Chagallian interpretive scheme that interweaves Chassidic Judaism and a certain ethnic-religious idea of fairy-tale reality that finds in the flying sweethearts and in certain upside-down world situations typical of the fairy...
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Armando Testa and sport: on the occasion of Milan Cortina 2026, a focus exhibition at Milan's Museo del Novecento

On the occasion of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Museo del Novecento in Milan presents from January 22, in collaboration with Testa per Testa, the focus exhibition Urrà la neve! Armando Testa and sport, dedicated to ...
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Carla Sozzani Collection brings Man Ray, LaChapelle and 71 artists to CAMeC in Spice

Photography as a language capable of transforming the gaze and producing new readings of reality is the focus of the exhibition Fotosintesi. Photographs from the Carla Sozzani Collection, set up at the Modern and Contemporary Art Center of La Spezia ...
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Parma, a major exhibition on Italian Symbolism at the Magnani-Rocca Foundation

From March 14 to June 28, 2026, the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo, a few kilometers from Parma, hosts The Symbolism in Italy. Origins and Developments of a New Aesthetic 1883-1915, an exhibition that brings together more than 14...
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Beyond the reflection: the mirror as threshold in twentieth-century art

There are places intwentieth-century art where reality suddenly seems to open up, multiply, slip out of its usual form. All it takes is a mirror, a sheet of glass that, instead of returning a faithful image, betrays it, doubles it, reinvents it. The...
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