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Exhibitions in Italy
The choice of Terra D'Arte

A small selection of exhibitions and events in Italy

click to enlarge poster Marche Art History Courses.
Marche Art History Courses.

Dante Alighieri Camerino

12 January - 9 March 2010

This winter 2009/2010 in MARCHE for the first time short ART HISTORY COURSES at the DANTE ALIGHIERI SCHOOL CAMERINO - each course consists of 3 lessons and 1 excursion.

Lessons are held in English (but we also talk Italian of course), No prior knowledge of art history is necessary to participate.

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Celebrations in honor of Matteo Ricci.
2010 - Celebrations in honor of Matteo Ricci.

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Macerata, Marche Italy

Matteo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit priest who travelled to China in the 16th Century. He was a missionary, scientist, humanist, and educator– a Renaissance Man. He ranks as the most cultivated man of his time and "one of the most remarkable and brilliant men of history". The founder of the modern Chinese Church, Matteo Ricci is respected as a national figure even by the Chinese Communist Party.

For Ricci, learning and academic excellence in the Jesuit way served as a magnet that could draw people to God. As with all things, learning comes from God, and finally, nothing is really secular. An authority on mathematics, astronomy, apologetics, literature, popular catechesis, poetry, and a lover of art and music, Ricci fascinated and attracted the Chinese intelligentsia. He approached evangelization primarily, but not solely, through the scientific apostolate.

www.comune.macerata.it

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Carlo Crivelli e Brera.
Carlo Crivelli e Brera.

Brera, Milan

25/11/2009 - 28/03/2010

The Brera is celebrating its bicentenary with an exhibition about Carlo Crivelli (ca. 1430 - ca 1493), for which a part of the paintings returns to Milan. Earlier, in the 19th century, Brera swopped part of Crivelli’s artpieces -like double-figures- with paintings from other artists. It is the opportunity to see and study the Annunciation from London next to contemporary works of the same artist that were commissioned for the city of Camerino (Marche): the Triptych of St. Domenicus and the polyptych of the cathedral, complete with the painted parts of the wooden frames. These panels are now spread over several international collections, after that they were, during the course of the 19th century, sawn in pieces and sold separately.
The intention of the exhibit is not to reconstruct the career of Crivelli, but to ponder about what drove Brera to deal with these art works in this particular way. And to reflect on the strategies of different international museums during the 19th century, to be able to have as much artworks as possible – and especially the most prestigious ones- like a match.

The exhibition features art from the last phase of Crivelli's career, the years eighties and nineties of the fifteenth century, so this is also a suitable occasion to observe the crucial transition in his artistic progression, which is often not been given the value it deserves. From the eighties Crivelli no longer paints polyptics. He begins to paint on a singular large panels and his new challenge is to depict the visible reality through painting as closely as possible, in an extremely detailed way.

The polyptych of St. Domenicus is a real tour de force of illusionism, with figures that have been created adding real three-dimensional additions (jewelry, keys). In other works these applications in 'pastiglia', like stones, pieces of glass and metals, are excluded. From there on it is just the real painting that creates the illusion. To illustrate that Crivelli is very clever in creating the illusion of different materials in his paintings, also objects from the fifteenth century are exhibited such as brocade fabrics, ceramics, carpets and gold, all objects that also occur in his paintings.

From these perspectives the Brera desires to show to visitors in a small and special exhibition dedicated to Crivelli, in which also other art works from the collection are shown, a richer and fuller picture of Crivelli that is more consistent with the actual artistic ‘statura’ of an uncomfortable but amazing artist.

www.electaweb.it

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Chagall and the Mediterranean

09/10/2009 - 17/01/2010

Pisa, Blu - Palazzo d'arte e cultura

Chagall and the Mediterranean, Prato Palazzo Blu

The Palazzo Blu exhibits 150 art works, paintings, sculpture, ceramics and lithographs, from the collections of important French public museums as the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nizza, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau Cambrésis and from private collections, all art pieces created by the Russian artist from 1926 onwards. It was the first time for the artist to encounter the Mediterrean light, it's colors, it's landscape and towns, of France, Greece and the Holy Land.

www.chagallpisa.it

Exhibits in Italy
De kamers van de kardinaal, Caldarola, Le Marche.
The Cardinal's Rooms.
Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Guercino and
Mattia Preti for Cardinal Pallotta.

23/5/2009 - 12/11/2009

Caldarola, Palazzo Pallotta

www.lestanzedelcardinale.it

Following the success of the De Magistris exhibition, Caldarola is hosting another important exhibition in the Palazzo Pallotta palace, this time featuring the figure of Cardinal Giambattista Pallotta, a refined and cultured collector from Rome in the Baroque era.

Through a detailed investigation, the most important paintings that once belonged to the Cardinal have been located in various museums and private collections. Of particular interest are the canvasses by Caravaggio, Guercino, Guido Reni, Elisabetta Sirani, Domenichino, Sassoferrato, Mattia Preti, Carlo Maratti, Scarsellino and D’Arpino.

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Art and Illusions

Masterpieces of Tromp-l'oeil
from Antiquity to the present day

16/10/2009 - 24/1/2010

Florence - Palazzo Strozzi

Art and Illusions, Palazzo Strozzi Florence

www.inganniadartefirenze.it

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Federico Barocci (1535-1612). The Charm of Colour. A Lesson For Two Centuries.
Federico Barocci (1535-1612).
The Charm of Colour. A Lesson For Two Centuries.

11/10/2009 - 10/1/2010

Siena, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala.

This exhibit is dedicated to the genius Barocci who's fame during the 16th Century was similar to artists like Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Correggio in the countries of Italy, Spane, Bohemia, Bavaria and Flanders.

The Barocci exhibit shows 34 works from museums of London, Paris, Vienna, Rome, Napels, Florence, Perugia, Urbino, Senigallia and Assisi. Two paintings have been restored especially for the exhibit: The Descent from the Cross from the cathedral of Perugia, and The Pardon of Assisi from the church of Saint Francis at Urbino.

Next to the discovering through Barocci's art works, of his charm of light and colour, so tipical of the atmosphere that the master from the Renaissance City of Urbino creates in his masterworks, a part of the exhibit is dedicated to artists influenced by his work. Artist that were contemporary to him, like Annibale, Ludovico and Agostino Carracci, Lodovico Cigoli, Bernardo Strozzi, Guido Reni, Pietro da Cortona, and also Rubens and Van Dyck. But also artists of a later date were inspired by him, and are present with their works at the exhibit, like Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Rosalba Carriera, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The exhibit houses a section that is dedicated to the painters from Sienna who have contributed to the diffusion of his fame: Francesco Vanni, Ventura Salimbeni, Alessandro Casolani and Rutilio Manetti

www.santamariadellascala.com

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From Rembrandt to Gauguin and Picasso.
From Rembrandt to Gauguin and Picasso.

Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

10/10/2009 - 14/3/2010

Rimini, Castel Sismondo.

An event that cannot be missed, as it will never occur again. Sixty five masterpieces of European painting – dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth century – from one of the world’s most important museums, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. An occasion that will never be repeated, as it is the result of the American institute’s temporary closure of a portion of its exhibition space for renovations.

Although the works cover many important European national schools, the exhibition in Rimini was arranged by Marco Goldin according to a conception of continuous thematic groupings, divided into six sections: Religious work; The nobleness of the portrait; The intimacy of the portrait; Still lifes; Interiors; The "new" landscape

Thus, in this arrangement, portraits by Tintoretto and Moroni will be displayed alongside an absolute masterpiece, a wonder among wonders, the famous portrait of Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli painted by Degas in 1865. In addition, an incredible series of portraits begins with masterpieces by Velásquez and Rembrandt and ends with an unforgettable large canvas by Picasso featuring a Cubist portrait of a woman, dating from 1910. De Hooch, Saenredam and De Witte are represented as well, with their almost metaphysical interiors from seventeenth-century Holland. Not to mention an astounding selection of Impressionist works t??hat will include, in addition to the artists previously mentioned, Manet, Sisley, Pissarro, Cézanne,Bernard, Signac, Gauguin and Van Gogh. In brief, a wealth of beauty that will radiate from Rimini.

www.lineadombra.it

From Rembrandt to Gauguin and Picasso.
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Opera Festival 2009, Macerata
46. Stagione Lirica 2010.
Macerata Sferisterio Opera Festival

A maggior gloria di Dio

29/7/2010 - 12/8/2010


Artistic director Pier Luigi Pizzi

www.sferisterio.it

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