Archive for the 'italian art' Category

Palazzo Farnese from Renaissance collections to French Embassy

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

The exhibition, requested by Jean-Marc de La Sablière, French Ambassador to Italy, has been set up in collaboration with the Italian Ministry for Culture, and is curated by Prof. Francesco Buranelli, Secretary of the Papal Commission for Cultural Heritage of the Church, and by architect Roberto Cecchi, General Secretary of the Ministry for Culture.

The idea […]

Turin: from the Gates of Hell to the Gates of Infinity

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Posted by Abbey School CiaoItaly - Torino.
Web site: www.ciaoitaly-turin.com
Turin, the first capital of Italy, encapsulates both mystery and magic. The home of important museums, wonderful works of art and culinary delights, the Savoy City has been one of the most important esoteric locations in Europe ever since the times of Paracelsus.
Situated on the 45th […]

Wonderful Piedmont: the exhibition “Castelli aperti” !

Friday, June 18th, 2010

The 15 Residenze Reali (Royal Residences), ascribed to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites in 1997, are perfect highlights of art, culture and countryside and they are an artistic and cultural treasure, not only for the region, but also for the whole of Europe.

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The International Rome Film Festival from October 15th to October 23rd 2009

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

The International Rome Film Festival returns from October 15th to October 23rd 2009 with films, retrospectives, encounters, exhibitions, concerts and the attendance of great national and international stars.
The pulsating heart of the Festival will be the Auditorium Parco della Musica - designed by Renzo Piano - and the neighboring Cinema Village.

There are fourteen films in […]

ART EXHIBITION ‘The Macchiaioli: the New after the Sketch - origins and success of Tuscan Naturalism’

Monday, September 21st, 2009

The historic rooms of the Tamerici Spa in Montecatini Terme will give hospitality to the exhibition The New after the Sketch: origins and success of Tuscan Naturalism, from 16th July 2009 to 18th January 2010.
A hundred works of art have been chosen among the most famous and the never seen Italian public and private collections. […]

School of the month: NABA Design Summer Courses

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Posted by NABA, Italian Design & Fashion school in Milan.
Web site: www.design-summer-courses.com
Design your Summer with NABA Design & Fashion Courses!
NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts) in Milan launches the new edition of its Design Summer Courses in Italy, a wide range of high quality Design Courses organized for summer 2009 and open to international students […]

Canova: the classical ideal art between sculpture and painting

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Canova is definitely the greatest European sculptor of the Neoclassical period, considered the last Italian artist who aroused interest at international level, thanks to his ability to synthesise and complete the great Italian sculpture tradition and interpret contemporary aspirations towards the ideal beauty and the rebirth of ancient art.

A sculptor worth knowing a lot more […]

Women and the story of Art

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

In Reale Palace, in Milan, you can admire more than 200 works realized by 110 female artists, who have had the talent and the courage, in different historical periods, to make a name for themselves in a field that is traditionally dominated by mail figures (from 3rd December 2007 to 9th March 2008).
The exhibition begins […]

Canova and Prince Lubomirski

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

The celebrations for the 250th anniversary of Antonio Canova offer you the possibility to admire, for the first time in Italy, the magnificent sculpture that represents “Prince Henryk Lubomirski as Love”, at the Canova Museum in Possagno, Treviso, (Gallery of plaster casts), from 29th July to 1st November, 2007.
Canova had sculptured this masterpiece because Princess […]

The Cézanne art exhibition in Florence

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

From 20th March 2007 to 29th July 2007 Strozzi Palace, in Florence, will contain 100 works of art coming from the most famous international collections, among which you can find 20 masterpieces realized by Cézanne.
In particular, the presence of the works of art by Cézanne is the result of the collecting activity carried on […]