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Pistoia - July 16th, 2009 -  January 18th, 2010

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Physics in Florence in the 19th century

Firenze - November 8th, 2009 - May 9th, 2010

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The purpose of the exhibition is to evoke the extraordinary period prior to the Unification of Italy when Florence was one of the European capitals of scientific knowledge.  In the first half of the XIX century, technological development and interest for science profoundly influenced Italian and European society, with inedited progress in every field of science, from mathematics to physics, from chemistry to biology.  Fuelled by the Enlightenment sensitivity for “useful” science, the Galilean tradition became an instrument of social, economic and cultural progress, and was cultivated thanks to the farsightedness of the Lorraine grand dukes of Tuscany.

New exhibition space MUS'A

Sassari

www.pinacotecamusa.it

With MUS'A, the new exhibition space, one can see the state art collection in the various rooms on the three floors of the Museum. The more than 400 paintings and drawings in the exhibition are divided into different themes (religious subjects, mythology, history, portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, genre scenes etc.). These are organized chronologically and show the work or different Italian and European artists and schools from the medieval period to the middle of the 20th Century. There is also an important collection of the works of Sardinian artists from the early 20th century and a rich collection of graphic works.

The collection of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur

Trento - September 19th, 2009 - January 10th, 2010

http://english.mart.trento.it

A parade of artists with two hundred and forty works from the late nineteenth century avant-garde to Pop Art for a show of great appeal at the MART in Trento from the biggest names that brought us developments in the painting and artistic sensibilities of the Western world and beyond. The exhibition is sorted by chronological theme, in an effort to provide a live summary of art history. Founded thanks to a shrewd acquisitions campaign launched at the end of the 19th century by the Fine Arts Society of Winterthur, and subsequently supported by generous donations, the collection has always concentrated on impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces, with works by Degas, Sisley, Pissarro, Monet and the post-impressionists.

 

The style of  the Tsars

Prato (FI) - August 18th, 2009 - January 19th, 2010

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150 works of art on loan from the Hermitage Museum, the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin Museums and the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow, as well as items from many Italian institutes and museums illustrate how cultural, trade and diplomatic relations developed between Italy and the Grand Duchy of Moscow between 14th and 16th centuries, especially as a result of the trading of Italian textiles. The exhibition concludes with an opportunity to view Cigoli’s Circumcision altar piece, originally created for the church of San Francesco in Prato and now a part of the collections of The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

Paintings of an Empire

Roma - September 24th, 2009 - January 17th, 2010

www.scuderiequirinale.it

"Paintings of an Empire" spotlights paintings from the 1st century B.C. to the 5th A.D., a crucial period in Roman history that saw the rise and the development of the Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar in 49 B.C. to colonial expansion and the later cultural ferment of the Empire. On display are some 100 works, including fragments of frescoes, portraits on wood, decorations, and friezes recovered from patrician homes and those of ordinary citizens and shop owners.

Giovanni Boldini

Ferrara - September 20th - January 10th, 2010

 www.palazzodiamanti.it

The exhibition at Palazzo dei Diamanti features Giovanni Boldini’s Parisian period. Once he settled in Paris, the painter became the most famous portraitist of the high society and this exhibition shows his paintings as evidence of that crucial moment of his artistic life. Covering the period 1871 to 1886, the exhibit will feature around 100 paintings showcasing the talents of an artist fascinated by a range of styles and subjects. A series of cityscapes spotlight Boldini's interpretation of modern life: crowded streets and squares filled with people, carriages and horse-drawn buses.

 

Courbet and Monet

Udine - September 26th 2009 -  March 7th, 2010

www.lineadombra.it

The exhibition is hosted in in the beautiful Villa Manin in Udine and focuses on the spread of Realism and Impressionism in central and eastern Europe.  An exhibition with over 120 works from museums around the world, rich of masterpieces that tells about the relationship between the Barbizon school of France and the diffusion of realism and naturalism in central and oriental Europe. You can also admire Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh and many other main painters of Europe.

 From Velazquez to Murillo

Pavia - October 10th - January 17th, 2010
www.museicivici.pavia.it

The “siglo de oro” of Spain will thus be revived in the Visconti Castle of Pavia thanks to an extremely important group of works, mostly unrivaled and never exhibited in Italy, amongst which the works of some of the greatest figures of the international art scene such as Velázquez, Murillo, de Ribera, Antonio de Pereda, Francisco Ribalta, Alonso Cano, Juan Valdes Leal, Juan Carrero de la Miranda and then again paintings by other less-known artists, which all together offer an exhaustive and fascinating overview of an age in which the arts flourished to an extraordinary degree.

   Caravaggio Bacon Exhibition

Roma - October 2nd, 2009 -  January 24th, 2010

www.galleriaborghese.it  

The  Galleria  Borghese  will  celebrate  the four hundred anniversary  of  Caravaggio’s  death  by  displaying  his masterpieces  together  with twenty paintings by one of the great artists of the second half of the twentieth century, Francis Bacon, whose birth centenary of falls this year.  These two extreme figures have entered  the collective  imagination as “accursed” artists, who expressed  the  torment of existence in their painting with equal intensity and creative brilliance.  Their  lives  separated  by  three  hundred  years,  these  two  disturbing  figures  will encounter each other for the first time at the Galleria Borghese, which will be enhanced by thirty masterpieces of the two masters from the world’s leading museums. 

Dante's Inferno in the caves of Pertosa     

 Salerno -  01/06/2009 - 31/12/2009

www.tappetovolante.org   

Grotte dell'Angelo in   the  Cilento      National Park     are a   natural and most charming stage for Dante's Inferno, repeated through    11.   Every weekend Dante leads the audience through tunnels in the mountain,   going   from cave to cave, to meet Paolo and Francesca, Ulysses, Minos,   Count Ugolino, and many others. This is an extraordinary show, with   unpublished music and new installations that stretches for a kilometer   through   the Grottedi Pertosa and Dante's imaginary   world.

  GUERCINO.

Bologna - April 21th -  March 30th, 2010

 www.guercinoexibition.it

Thirty youth works by Guercino, so nicknamed because squint, an artist who still proved to be a young talent for the period. Many of the works presented, the frescoes are torn from Casa Pannini at Cento, and Guercino realized that the age of twenty years, in addition to the famous Madonna Della Ghiara, The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine, and Rinaldo Corradino straddle a mule, the Madonna Del Passero and Sibyl.