Arts guide: exhibits in Italy

Friday, 08 February 2008

Rome, February 8 - The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy's top art exhibitions: ARICCIA - Palazzo Chigi: the Lemme Collection; 130 Baroque works by the likes of Cavaliere d'Arpino, Borgognone and Ludovico Gimignani, until February 10.

ALESSANDRIA - Palazzo Monferrato: Le Corbusier, Drawings and Sketches; Italy's first look at the lesser-known side of the great architect (1887-1965); until March 30.

BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: America! Painting Stories from the New World; 250 works by the 19th-century artists who celebrated the grandeur of the American landscape and life in the West, including Edwin Church, Frederic Remington and Charles Russell; until May 4.

FLORENCE - Palazzo Pitti: Another Beauty; 40 works by 17- century Florentine painter Francesco Furini; to April 26.

FORLI': Museo San Domenico: 'Guido Cagnacci, Protagonist of The 17th Century Between Caravaggio And Reni', 80 works including 44 Cagnaccis; until June 22.

GENOA - Various venues: The Myth of Garibaldi; five shows and dozens of events until March 2. - Palazzo Bianco: 'From The Cradle To The Altar: Scenes Of Female Life In The Belle Epoque'; until October 10.

MILAN - Palazzo Reale: The Art Of Women, 200 works by 110 artists from 16th to 20th centuries including Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Camille Claudel, Vanessa Bell, Tamara De Lempicka, Frida Kahlo; until March 9.

- Castello Sforzesco: Leonardo's horse studies including model of equestrian statue destroyed by French invaders in 1499; plus various editions of his Treatise on Painting; until March 2.

- Galleria del Gruppo Credito Valtellinese, Stelline Refectory: Last Last Suppers; Warhol's 1986 homage and other works inspired by the Leonardo masterpiece in the Santa Maria delle Grazie church across the street; until February 16.

- Fondazione Mazzotta: Andy Warhol-Joseph Beuys, 30 Warhol works, 40 by Beuys, all inspired by 1980 Campania earthquake; until March 30.

- same venue: The Seventies, A Long Decade in the Short Century; installations on words like Body, Conflict and Demo and symbols like Aldo Moro and Pasolini, plus a wide-ranging look at '70s culture; until March 30.

- Palazzo della Permanente: New Chinese Painting, 68 works by 23 painters; until February 12.

ROME - Quirinale Place: 'Nostoi' (Ancient Greek for 'returns'); 67 Etruscan, Greek and Roman antiquities looted from tombs and recovered in landmark deals with leading US museums; until March 2.

- Palazzo Massimo: Rosso Pompeiano, 108 paintings and three reconstructed rooms from the golden age of Pompeii; until March 30.

- same venue: Celebrated heads of Pergamon kings Attalus I and Attalus III, loaned from Berlin, on show for first time in Italy; until March 16. - Museo del Corso: The Forbidden City; more than 300 works from the reign of the cultured Emperor Qianlong; including paintings by Jesuit monk and court painter Giuseppe Castiglione; until March 20.

- Colosseum: In Scaena, 70 ancient Roman theatrical pieces illustrating 900 years of the Roman stage including comic and tragic masks, bronze statuettes, mosaics and terracotta vases; until February 18.

- same venue: Gregory Crewdson, 53 snaps by celebrity photographer; until March 2. - Palazzo Venezia: Sebastiano Del Piombo; first major Italian retrospective of neglected Renaissance artist (1485-1547), a contemporary and colleague of Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian. The exhibit features most of Del Piombo's surviving works; until May 18.

ROVIGO - Palazzo Roverella: The Belle Epoque, Art In Italy 1880-1915; 110 paintings including Boldini, De Nittis, Zandomeneghi; until July 13.

TRAPANI - Museo Pepoli: The Idea of the Divine in Caravaggio, 14 masterpieces including one recently discovered by Sir Denis Mahon; until March 14.

TRIESTE - Salone degli Incanti, ex-Pescheria: Ettore Sottsass, 170 pieces personally selected by recently deceased designer; until March 6.

VENICE - Palazzo Grassi: Rome And The Barbarians, The Birth Of A New World: with 1,700 pieces from 24 countries, show offers a comprehensive re-assessment of Rome's relations with invading cultures; until July 20.

- Gallerie dell'Accademia: Late Titian And The Sensuality Of Painting: 28 masterpieces from 1550 until artist's death in 1576 including last work La Pieta', an ex-voto against plague; until April 20.

- Museo Correr: Heavenly Spheres, Earthly Spheres; 142 works in first-ever show on planetary and terrestrial globes fashioned between 16th and 19th centuries, including Italian cartographer Livio Sanudo's rare 1550 mounted model of world, until recently thought lost; until February 29.

photo: Boldini's famous portrait of turn-of-the-century Palermo high-society icon Franca Florio

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