Arts guide: exhibits in Italy
'Life of Michelangelo' in Siena
03 September, 16:22
(ANSA) - Rome, September 3 - The following is a city-by-city
guide to some of Italy's art exhibitions:
FLORENCE - Uffizi and Palazzo Pitti: Caravaggio and
Caravaggeschi in Florence, 100 works including two recently
attributed to the master; until October 10.- Palazzo Pitti: Vinum Nostrum. The Art, Science and Myths of Wine in Civilisation; from prehistoric winegrowing to Dionysus cult, Etruscan, Roman use; show features oldest surviving wine container, on loan from Georgia; until April 30, 2011.
- Accademia and Horne Museum: Virtues of Love, 40 Florentine Renaissance paintings celebrating wedded bliss, from Italian and foreign museums; until November 1.
GENOA - Villa del Principe: Genoa's most celebrated palazzo celebrates its reopening with a show gathering 80 landscapes in the Doria Pamphilij collections including Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt; until September 26.
LIVORNO - Gustalla Centro Arte: Marc Chagall and the Bible's Message; until September 30.
- Galleria San Barnaba: Amedeo Modigliani and His Friends in Livorno and Paris; until September 11. MILAN - Palazzo Reale: Rome and China, The Two Empires: 450 Imperial Rome and Qin-Han dynasty masterpieces from second century BC to fourth century AD; until September 5.
ROME - Musei Capitolini: The Age of Conquest: The Lure of Greek Art in Rome; masterpieces looted from Greece between the third and first centuries BC; until September 5.
- Palazzo Venezia: Renaissance Sculpture. Donatello, Bregno and Michelangelo in 15th century Rome; features some 30 pieces, including some rarely-seen works; until September 5.
ROVERETO - MART: American Art 1850-1960, 100 works from the Phillips Collection in Washington from 19th-century landscape artists and Impressionists to Hopper, O'Keefe, Pollock and Rothko; until September 26.
SAN SEVERINO MARCHE - Pinacoteca Civica, Palazzo Servanzi Confidati and Chiesa della Misericordia: 'Baroque Marvels', 90 works including Bernini, Guercino, Pomarancio, Orazio Gentileschi, Valentin de Boulogne, Baciccio: until December 12.
SIENA - Santa Maria della Scala: Life of Michelangelo; letters, poetry, working sketches; until November 14.
TIVOLI - Villa Adriana: Show charting rise and fall of Hadrian's Villa; dozens of artefacts returned from collections around the world; until November 1.
TRENTO - Buoncastiglio Castle; The Adventure of Glass: From the Renaissance to the 20th Century between Venice and Distant Worlds; brings together over 700 masterpieces celebrating glass production on the Venetian island of Murano; until November 7.
TURIN - Fondazione Merz: Mario Merz, Pageantry of Painting; 20 works from European museums and private collections; until September 26.
UDINE - Castello: Giambattista Tiepolo, 20 engravings and 30 other works; until October 31.
VENICE - Magazzine del Sale (Vedova Foundation): Louise Bourgeois, The Fabric Works, 98 pieces by French-American sculptor who died May 31; also some large sculptures including trademark giant spider; until September 19.
- Fondazione Cini: 'The Arts of Giambattista Piranesi - Architect, etcher, antiquarian, vedutista, designer'; 300 original prints plus 33 photos by Gabriele Basilico of Rome sites in 1960s; until November 21.
- Palazzo Grimani: three Giorgione masterpieces, La Tempesta, La Vecchia, La Nuda; until October 10.
photo: Michelangelo's David (1501-04)
