Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Until June 29, 2010 the city of Rome will host the exhibition “Corot to Monet – The symphony of nature”.

The exhibition will show more than 170 works which shows the evolutionary path of the Impressionists way of presenting the natural landscape, starting from the early innovations of the painters of the Barbizon School to end with the triumph of the color of Monet’s Waterlilies.

The exhibition is hold at the Complesso del Vittoriano and is organized through collaboration with prestigious private collections and major museums around the world (including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum New York City, the National Gallery in Washington, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg)

Hours
Monday to Thursday: 9:30-19:30
On Friday and Saturday: 9:30-23:30
Sunday: 9:30-20:30

Giovanni Boldini's Marchesa Luisa Casati, with a Greyhound

Chiostro del Bramante in Rome – behind Piazza Navona – usually holds a grand exhibition each winter season. This years exhibition is dedicated to the painter Giovanni Boldini and the Italian artists who lived in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century.

During the late nineteenth century, France was to lead the way in contemporary art and constituted for many countries – as well as Italy – an unparalleled model of civilization. The Italian painters in paris were thus led to a continuous confrontation with the modern art of France at the Universal Exhibitions held there regularly.

The real “myth of Paris” is a result of so-called Belle Epoque, a sort of golden age marked by the triumph of the model bourgeois liberal and secular, from the great freedom of thought, of prodigious scientific discoveries, by a decisive acceleration of transport, from the birth of mass tourism, from the great splendour of the theatres and newspapers in print.

La Belle Epoque, indicating the happy time in which the middle classes come to enjoy a degree of prosperity. Paris became, in virtue of this, a true literary and artistic laboratory in which artistic tendencies coexisted very different from each other.

Giovanni Boldini in his atelie

The exhibition shows the biographies of three famous “Italians in Paris” – Boldini, De Nittis and Zandomeneghi – and it moves between the places dear to the myth of modernity of Paris – theaters, cafes, boulevards, the studios of famous artists and those bohemian painters.

Included is also pieces by Vittorio Corcos, Antonio Mancini, Paul Helleu, Leon Bonnat, Telemaco Signorini, Serafino De Tivoli.

The exhibition presents works from private collections, and easily accessible to the general public, which will be displayed alongside important loans from Italian institutions such as the Galleria d ‘Arte Moderna in Palazzo Pitti, the Galleria degli Uffizi, and international institutions like the Musée d ‘Orsay.

Rome, Chiostro del Bramante
Opening hours
Every day 10.00-20.00
Mondays closed
Special opening hours:
24 december 10.00 – 14.00
25 december 16.00 – 20.00
28 december 10.00 – 20.00
31 december 10.00 – 17.00
1 january 10.00 – 20.00
4 january 10.00 – 20.00
6 january 10.00 – 20.00

Jean Metzinger

On February 20, 1909 the French magazine Le Figaro published the Manifesto of Futurism by the ‘jeune poète italien’ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, which was to forever was to change art scene.

If going to Venice now, you still have a chance to see the big exhibition “Masterpieces of Futurism” at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

The exhibition includes, among other masterpieces such as Matter and Boccioni’s Dynamism of a Cyclist, Mercury passes in front of the sun Balla, Carrà Interventionist Demonstration, Blue Dancer by Severini, Futurist works as well as three belonging to the collection of Peggy Guggenheim;

Ballerina by Severini, Balla’s Abstract Speed and Sound and the sculpture of Boccioni Dynamism of a running horse and man), some loans from private collections of Balla, Boccioni, Carrà and Sironi, and a recent donation by John and Lilian Pandini Foundation Solomon R. Guggenheim, the cyclist Mario Sironi, 1916, one of the key works of the artist.

Mario Sironi

It’ss also a rare chance to see on three sculptures by Boccioni, Dynamism to support a horse in the race, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space and Development of a Bottle in Space .

The exhibition will run till the end of this year.

Ercole e Telefo

The exhibition “Roma – La Pittura di un Impero” or “Rome – The painting of an Empire” is an exghibition that aims to present a comprehensive picture of the artistic level reached by the Roman painting in a period between the second century BC and fourth centuries AD, the formation of the Roman Empire

It is not much remaining, even from the most famous Roman painters were saved only fleeting traces. A few of them we know the names of: Studius (or Ludius) expert in painting landscapes, and Fabullus (or Famulus), author of the pictorial decoration of the Domus Aurea of Nero.
Despite this, the rich documentatio surviving mostly decorative, but not without its high peaks, allows us to have a fairly precise evolution of painting from Greece to Rome. Colour in all their nuances, shades and lights, the relationship between human figure and landscape painting techniques that move from one graphic rendering and precise all the details at a faster technique, to “spot” (also known as “compendiary”) able to achieve with a few swift strokes and an almost “impressionistic” are the final results – the only better known thanks to the discoveries of Pompeii, Ercolano, Stabia, Rome itself, and Egypt by the magnificent portraits of those Fayyum – an artistic culture that evolves over time without interruption, and without losing contact with the great masters of the past.
The backgrounds of the walls of the luxurious Roman houses were often monochromatic, with a preference for white, yellow, blue, black and red. The ancient world was a world in color. Bright colors and bright, shining on the walls of houses, the facades of the tombs inside the temples and public buildings, even on statues in marble or bronze. The world in limestone and white marble and shiny we imagine thinking antiquity has never really existed.
The exhibited works, from museums and collections Italians and Europeans, have been divided into sections on the basis of thematic and chronological.
About 100 works are exhibited. All loans from the most important archaeological sites and museums in the world, including the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London, the archaeological museums of Monaco, Frankfurt, Zurich and also the Archaeological Museum of Naples, Pompei, Museo Nazionale Romano, the Vatican Museums and the Capitoline Museums of Rome, famous museums and busy as at times, however, the individual pieces may get lost.

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Courbret et Monet

About an hour north of Venice, near Codriopo you will find Villa Manin, the home of the last Doge of Venice, Ludovico Manin, Today it is a centre for contemporary art. At the moment they are doing a great impressionist exhibition “From Courbet to Monet. The spread of Realism and Impressionism in Central and Eastern Europe”, scheduled from 26 September 2009 to 7 March 2010.

In this extraordinary exhibition on Courbet and Monet one can examine very special aspect of 19th century European pictorial culture: the relation between the birth of the so-called Barbizon school in France and the diffusion of Realism and Naturalism in Central and

Courbret et Monet

Eastern European countries. The exhibition consists of 134 paintings from museums all over the world. The exhibition focus on four different topics which obviously reflect the significance of landscapes as the real esprit of the 19th century, but it also touches upon other aspects. They are Woods, Countryside houses, Water, and Portraits. “Nature inhabited” – is the guide to a great feeling and the second part nineteenth century throughout Europe. Feeling that sees in the discovery of nature by artists of Barbizon in France a point of fundamental news. The taste for so-called plein-air is a fundamental support of this exhibition.

Passariano, Villa Manin – 26th September 2009 – 7th March 2010

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Villa ManinPiazza Manin, 10

33033 Passariano di Codroipo (UD)

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EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS

from 26/09 to 1/11/2009, every day: 9.00 am – 7.00 pm

from 2/11/2009 to 7/03/2010: Monday-Thursday: 9.00 am -6.00 pm

Friday, Saturday and Sunday 9.00 am – 7.00 pm

CLOSED

24, 25, 31 December 2009

1 January 2010: 11.00 am – 7.00 pm

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