ALDO MANUZIO. THE RENAISSANCE IN VENICE. Some information on the exhibition

Saturday January 30th, 2016 , Events and Exhibitions

Tempest | Giorgione | Gallerie dell'Accademia

Giorgione, La Tempesta. Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia.

ALDO MANUZIO. THE RENAISSANCE IN VENICE. Some information on the exhibition

Aldo Manuzio. The exhibition entitled “Aldo Manuzio. The Renaissance in Venice” is on view from 19 March 2016 to 19 June 2016 at the Academia Gallery in Venice.
It is dedicated to the central importance of books in the history of European and Western culture. At that time books were able to change the world.Aldo Manuzio’s visionary project consisted in a will to make the knowledge transmitted through books available to all, not only to a small group, as happened at that time.
Furthermore, the exhibition illustrates the rise of the Renaissance in Venice, which in 16^th century was the richest and the most populated city in Europe, with a population of 150,000.

The Piccolo Teatro in Milan or Carmagnola Palace

Friday January 29th, 2016 , Cities of Art, Museums

The Piccolo Teatro in Milan or Carmagnola Palace

Piccolo Teatro in Milan is Carmagnola Palace. A few months ago I wrote about the first event organized by the Art post Blog: a special day spent with some readers, walking along Milan at the time of Visconti and Sforza.
I had the occasion to see things I had never noticed before.
When I’m in Milan I’m usually in a hurry, but thanks to Laura, who was our tour guide that day, I discovered together with you all the stories this city is still keeping up.

The main character of one of this stories is the ancient Carmagnola Palace, the building that houses the “Piccolo Teatro”.
Here is its story.

Post-Impressionism

Thursday January 28th, 2016 , Schools & Periods

Paul Cézanne, Hortense Fiquet, 1877 (detail).

Post-Impressionism

In 1910 Grafton Galleries in London hosted an exhibition entitled “Manet and the post-Impressionist”, which showed works of art clearly illustrating the crisis suffered by the Impressionist movement. In fact the movement had lost its early enthusiasm.

On that occasion, English art critic Roger Fry coined the term “Post-impressionism” to describe the artists, who were inspired by innovative Impressionist ideas, but at the same time they reached a new artistic style.
But what is exactly Post- Impressionism?

Brera Madonna by Piero della Francesca

Monday January 25th, 2016 , Artists and Works

BRERA MADONNA by Piero della Francesca

Brera Madonna. One of the most famous painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca is Montefeltro Altarpiece, also known as Brera Madonna or Brera Altarpiece.

It’s a mysterious masterpiece and its exact dating, its meaning, and its original placing are still the subject of scholars’ investigations.

The splendor of Venice in Brescia

Saturday January 23rd, 2016 , Events and Exhibitions

Il Canal Grande con il Ponte di Rialto | Canaletto | Galleria Nazionale Parma

Canaletto, Il Canal Grande con il Ponte di Rialto secondo il progetto di Palladio. Parma, Galleria Nazionale.

THE SPLENDOUR OF VENICE IN BRESCIA. Some information on the exhibition.

Martinengo Place in Brescia houses a new exhibition, which celebrates The Splendour of Venice and its undying myth in the collective unconscious.

The exhibition displays more than one hundred masterpieces by Canaletto, Bellotto, Guardi and paintings by the most important eighteenth and nineteenth-century vedutisti (landscape artists), coming from both public and private collections from Italy and from foreign countries. The display shows that Vedutismo (landscape painting) didn’t end together with the end of the Republic of Venice; on the contrary, it went on during 19^th century as well.