Visit Mantua. After my journey to Mantua it’s time for me to explain how you can arrange your own cultural visit to Mantua, from a practical point of view.
How to move and visit Mantua in a few simple steps
Silvestro Lega, La pergola (1868).
Macchiaioli. Not a year goes by without an exhibition dedicated to the Macchiaioli or to an artist who was attached somehow to the most important artistic movement in Italy in the 19th century.
The latest exhibition I wrote about is “I Macchiaioli. Le collezioni svelate” (“The Macchiaioli. The collections revealed”) arranged at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome. But before that an exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Fattori, the main exponent of the movement, took place at the Palazzo Zabardella in Padua. Not to mention that every time you admire a painting by Boldini, you can’t help thinking that at the beginning of his career he was a member of the Macchiaioli.
SEA ALSO: the photo gallery with the portraits of women by Giovanni Boldini.
I think it’s time for me to give a definition of “Macchiaioli”, and I will be waiting for your comments in order to know if you like their paintings.
M. C. Escher, new year 1947 (1946)
Escher in Milan. Maurits Cornelis Escher is an artist who has been recently rediscovered in Italy.
In the last few years this artist has been the protagonist of very successful exhibitions in Rome, then in Bologna and eventually in Treviso. I visited the exhibition in Treviso and I published the photos in the post with my review.
Now Escher will arrive in Milan with an exhibition at the Palazzo Reale (the Royal Palace), which will feature several works already admired in the previous exhibitions. But there will be also some novelties.
Lake Iseo Christo. Have you ever imagined the sensation you have while walking on the water? Probably not. But artists are able to imagine impossible things and make them real. And Christo did it.
From June 18th to July 3rd 2016 he will create one of his works of art on the Lake Iseo, entitled The Floating Piers.
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The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum. Some time ago I was in Milan, walking along via Montenapoleone at a fast pace, in order to reach the subway stop, because I had an appointment. I had walked along this street dozens of times, but on that occasion I noticed a sign inviting me to turn into via Gesù to reach the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum.
The name of the museum wasn’t new to me, but I only remembered that I had seen a leaflet, but I didn’t know that the museum was located in the heart of the city.
After my appointment, I came back and, as I had enough time, I visited the museum, and I fell in love with it.
