The moon in the well
In Pistoia the moon in the well really exists: it is a modern art work by the Florentine artist Gianni Ruffi. Walking around the streets of the city centre you will encounter the reproduction of an ancient well, perhaps of the XV century, in which a crescent moon seems to have fallen by chance (...) |
Macchiaioli, works and protagonists
«I Macchiaioli. Opere e protagonisti di una rivoluzione artistica (1861-1869)», the title of the exhibition that stays open till the end of October at the Castello Pasquini of Castiglioncello (Livorno), showing around 80 masterpieces created by the highest representatives of the macchiaioli trend (...) |
In Lucca, photographic images by Man Ray
In association with the Historical archive of the Biennale di Venezia, Saturday 15 June the exhibition «Man Ray. L'immagine fotografica» started in the monumental complex of San Micheletto, seat of the Fondazione Ragghianti in Lucca (...) |
The first Italian anthology of Elihu Vedder
San Gimignano's «Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea», in the exhibiting space of the ex Conservatorio di S. Chiara wil be showing until the 29th September the exhibit dedicated to Elihu Vedder (...) |
Sir John Bellany' Garfagnana
Garfagnana, the land that for years has welcomed Scottish painter John Bellany, the most important and influential living Scottish painter, hosts the exhibition «John Bellany nella Valle del Serchio, a new Provence» until 15th September in Barga (Lucca) (...) |
Ideal beauty according to Michelangelo
Michelangelo, Pontormo and Bronzino are the artists involved in the exhibition set up at the gallery of the Florence Academy : Venus and love. Michelangelo and the new beauty ideal (...) |
Moses Levy's seasons
From the 14th July till the 6th October 2002 Seravezza, Lucca's Palazzo Mediceo dedicates the wide retrospective «Le stagioni del colore» to Tunisian born artist Moses Levy, protagonist of Italian art between the '800 e '900 and an important figure in Tuscany (...) |
Europe, the legend arrives at the Uffizi
An important exhibition is currently open at the Galleria degli Uffizi with a very contemporary theme for our present-day international context: brings back to the public's attention the ancient origins of the name Europa (...) |
Five Vasari panels restored
Five Vasari panels have been through a long and meticulous restoring process to clean off the panels' surface or, as with «La Fede» panel, intervene on a burn caused by a candle: until 28 July (...) |
«The pleasure of lending colour»
Open until the 3rd of November in Casole d'Elsa, the exhibition dedicated to one of the main painters of Siena painting in the late 16th century, Alessandro Casolani called «Il piacere di colorire» (...) |
Leonardo da Vinci scenographer of the Orfeo
The city of Arezzo dedicates another exhibition to the creative genius of Leonardo da Vinci with the show «Il Foglio del teatro», a journey through renaissance art culture (...) |