KMSKA, the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp: tickets and artwork

Monday January 3rd, 2022 , Museum Tickets

KMSKA, THE FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF ANTWERP: TICKETS AND ARTWORKS

The KMSKA, Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts, finally reopens to the public. After 10 years, it is back to show the world its seven centuries of art in a new refined and contemporary guise.

The KMSKA has a precious heritage, is the only museum in Flanders with an Academic Institute and has a history that goes back to the end of the 19th century. It has a history that goes back to the late 1800s. However, it has always been a forward-looking place and this latest renovation project takes it into the future.

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Vasily Kandinsky life and works: 5 things to know

Monday December 27th, 2021 , 5 Things to know, Artists and Works

VASILIJ KANDINSKIJ LIFE AND WORKS: 5 THINGS TO KNOW

Knowing Vasily Kandinsky’s life and works means understanding a fundamental moment in the history of European art. Kandinsky is, in fact, the father of abstract painting, an artistic movement that emerged in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century and changed the figurative arts forever.

Abstract art does not show what the artist sees with his eyes but what he feels, his emotions and his state of mind. It is a way of conceiving art as a description of the inner universe that inhabits every human being and that can be expressed through geometric figures, colours and lines.

Vasilij Kandinskij vita e opere

Dante at the Royal Palace: an exhibition in Naples

Wednesday December 22nd, 2021 , Events and Exhibitions

DANTE AT THE ROYAL PALACE: AN EXHIBITION IN NAPLES

At the end of the Dante year, Dante comes to the Royal Palace.
An exhibition in Naples dedicated to the Supreme Poet with paintings by Tommaso De Vivo on the Divine Comedy and other works made in Naples in the nineteenth century.

The exhibition takes place in the spaces of the “Galleria del Genovese”, an ancient passageway between the Palace and the San Carlo Theatre, returned to the public for the occasion.

Dante at the Royal Palace

Photographs by Giuseppe Loy: the story of Italy

Tuesday December 21st, 2021 , Events and Exhibitions

PHOTOGRAPHS BY GIUSEPPE LOY: THE STORY OF ITALY

Forty years after his death, the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica is hosting the first retrospective devoted to Giuseppe Loy’s photographs, curated by Chiara Agradi and Angelo Loy.

Una Certa Italia brings together more than 130 original prints, many of them previously unpublished, from the Giuseppe Loy Photographic Archive. The exhibition is the result of cataloguing and research activities in the archive of the photographer, writer and intellectual, who died prematurely in 1981.

Photographs by Giuseppe Loy

Antonio Canova and Bologna: a story of love and art

Monday December 20th, 2021 , Artists and Works, Events and Exhibitions

ANTONIO CANOVA AND BOLOGNA: A STORY OF LOVE AND ART

The relationship between Antonio Canova and Bologna began in 1779. In fact, on 12 October of that year, the artist arrived in the city on his way to Rome.

Canova was only twenty-two years old and he recorded his first stay in his travel diary, which today provides an interesting picture of the sculptor’s creative tastes, as well as precious glimpses of Bolognese life in those years.
Subsequently there will be other occasions to cement the relationship between Canova and Bologna. In this post I will tell you about this story of love and art.

Antonio Canova and Bologna