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The Vorticists in Venice

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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The Vorticists in Venice

Until May 15 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the exhibition is held on the motion of the vortices (rebel artists in London and New York 1914-1918). Vanguard does not know too active in the early twentieth century (born in 1913 from the ideas of Percy Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound), the vortex part [...]

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Carnival time

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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Carnival time

It ’s almost time for Carnival, a few days from February 20 Italian cities will be filled with masks and floats parade dominated by factors that accompany playful, imaginative and satirical. Among the most famous and colorful Italian carnivals include: The Carnival of Venice, the Carnival of Viareggio and the Historic Carnival of Ivrea.

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Bosch in Venice

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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Bosch in Venice

From 19 December 2010 to March 20 2011 Palazzo Grimani in Venice, is hosting the exhibition “Bosch at Palazzo Grimani”. Dedicated to the Flemish painter’s most famous and intriguing history of art that you can admire the vision of the afterlife, the Triptych of Saint Liberata (1505) and the Triptych of the hermits, from Palazzo [...]

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Venice:The Adventure of the Glass.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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Venice:The Adventure of the Glass.

From 11 December to 25 April 2011, the Museo Correr in Venice, devotes a prestigious retrospective: The Adventure of the Glass. A thousand years of Venetian art. Organized chronologically into four sections, archaeological glass, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century; nineteenth century, twentieth century, and with over three hundred works on display, all from the [...]

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The great Venetians

Sunday, October 24, 2010

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The great Venetians

From Pisanello to Tiziano, Tintoretto, Tiepolo, the masters of Venetian painting are on display in Rome, at the Chiostro del Bramante. The exhibition entitled ‘The Great Venetians” is an important event that leads to Rome for the first time an extraordinary selection of masterpieces housed in the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo, which is currently closed for [...]

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The story of Italian photography

Monday, May 17, 2010

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The story of Italian photography

In Venice, in Piazza San Marco gallery, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa offers a photographic exhibition “Il Furore delle Immagini”. Denis Curti cares a great retrospective that tells the story of Italian photography from the beginnings to the contemporary trends. The 260 images accompanied by books and photo albums create a historical journey through the works [...]

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Artistic utopias at Guggenheim

Monday, May 10, 2010

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Artistic utopias at Guggenheim

At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the artistic utopias of the Western world, represented by 70 works on display, are the protagonists . On the Canal Grande in Venice, the exhibition curated by Vivien Greene, offers paintings, sculptures, designs, photographs and prints by modern artists, from the nineteenth to the Bauhaus period. There are works by [...]

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Italian art attractions

Thursday, May 6, 2010

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Italian art attractions

In Italy there are almost 5,000 museums, monuments and public and private archaeological areas, visited each year by about 95 million people. Like every year, we are awaiting the list about the most yearly visited museums and tourist attractions in Italy. For now we point the rankings about last year, provided by the Italian Touring [...]

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