ARTS GUIDE: EXHIBITS IN ITALY
ARTS GUIDE: EXHIBITS IN ITALY
(ANSA) - Rome, January 29 - The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy's art exhibitions:
AOSTA - Forte di Bard: Wildlife Photographer of the Year; best 100 photos of 2009 chosen by BBC and London's Natural History Museum; until March 25.
BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: Inca, Origins and Mysteries of the Civilisation of Gold; 250 artefacts, until June 27.
CASTELFRANCO VENETO - Casa del Giorgione: home-town show marking 500th anniversary of Giorgione's death; 130 works by Veneto painter and other Renaissance masters including Bellini, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian; until April 11.
CATANIA - Palazzo Valle: Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana; until March 14.
FORLI' - Musei di San Domenico: Flowers: Nature and Symbol from the 17th Century to Van Gogh; 100 works from international museums including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Courbet, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne and Klimt; until June 20.
MILAN - Triennale: Roy Lichtenstein, 100 works from Guggenheim, Whitney, Vienna's Moderner Kunst; until May 30.
- Pinacoteca di Brera: Carlo Crivelli, San Domenico Triptych, works from Marche and loans from major world museums; until March 28.
- same venue: Japan, Power and Splendour: 1569-1868, 100 masterpieces on rare loan from Japan; until March 8.
- Castello Sforzesco: La Monaca di Monza; Hayez and other painters capture Manzoni's famed 'Promessi Sposi' character and the woman she was based on, Spanish aristocrat Marianna de Leyda; until March 21.
NAPLES - six city museums: The Return of the Baroque, 350 works and 27 tours; until April 11.
PADUA - Museo degli Eremitani: Caravaggio, Lotto, Ribera, 50 works from the collection of art historian Roberto Longhi; until March 28.
- Palazzo Zabarella: Telemaco Signorini, show comparing 'Macchiaioli' master with contemporaries like Degas, Van Gogh and Courbet; until January 31.
- Palazzo della Ragione: installation by Zaha Hadid; until March 1.
PARMA - Three city venues show Parma University's huge archive on 20th century Italian art; Palazzo del Governatore (art, photography), Galleria San Ludovico (fashion) and Scuderie della Pilotta (architecture and design), until April 25.
PASSARIANO - Villa Manin: The Age of Courbet and Monet; 134 works, until March 7.
PERUGIA - Palazza Penna: 'Umbria Veloce' (Fast Umbria), show marking 100th anniversary of Futurism with paintings, self-portraits, posters, documents; until February 7.
PIACENZA - Fondazione Ricci Oddi: 19th-Century Tuscan Painting, Macchiaioli and beyond, 40 works; until May 2.
RIMINI - Castel Sismondo: From Rembrandt to Gauguin and Picasso; 65 masterpieces from Boston Museum of Fine Arts; until March 14.
ROME - Palazzo Incontro: Australian Aboriginal Art: 220 works by 127 prominent artists such as Rover Thomas, Clifford Possum, Judy Watson Napangardi e Nancy Nungurrayi; curated by National Gallery of Florence; until March 7.
- Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo: The Secret of Marble, Painted Marble From Ascoli Satriano; 11 Ancient Greek works from the ancient city of Ausculum in Apulia including griffins returned by Getty Museum in 2007; until April 18.
- Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna: Sandro Chia, 61 works by Transavanguardia artists; until February 28.
- same venue: Dada and Surrealism: 500 works from world museums including Man Ray, Duchamp, Picabia, Wood, Moreau, Munch, Miro', Arp, De Chirico and Picasso; until February 7.
- Chiostro del Diamante: Boldini, De Nittis, Zandomenighi, other Italian painters in Paris; until March 14.
- Palazzo delle Esposizioni: Alexander Calder; until February 14.
- Capitoline Museums: Michelangelo's architectural works in Rome, 140 sketches, models and contemporary documents; until February 21.
TREVISO - Casa dei Carraresi: The Secrets of the Forbidden City, Matteo Ricci at the Ming Court; until May 9.
TURIN - Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti: Japanese illustrators, modern artists compared with past masters including wood-block maestro Utagawa Kunisada (1786 - 1865); 300 works, until February 14.
VERONA - Palazzo della Gran Guardia: Corot and Modern Art, Souvenirs and Impressions; 100 works in collaboration with Louvre; until March 7.
VIGEVANO - Castello Visconteo: Leonardo da Vinci's output during his time in Lombardy; 'virtual codex' on flying, botany, mathematics, weaponry, astronomy, engineering and architecture; until April 5. photo: Roy Lichtenstein, 'In The Car'
