Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (il Grechetto)
Old Bearded Man Facing Left
etching
17th century
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Sixty's Bar: Paolo Porcu Rodriguez: Snaps of a Legend - Vespa: Fragments and Visions
Paolo Porcu Rodriguez's visions of the Vespa have captured the interest of the inhabitants of the city, who for the first time are able to experience an exhibition by a foreign artist. Positive also has been the feedback of the foreigners that liv...
Giovanni Agnelli Foundation: Call for Aritsts and Young Scholars: Research Scholarship in the Economics of Contemporary Art
Applications for the 2007 edition will be considered for original research projects in the following topical subject:
Collecting contemporarily. How contemporary art collections are formed.
Corporate mission, passion and investment as ...
Esso Gallery: Lato Destro: The Photographic Side of Arte Povera
About the relationship between art and photography there is a great deal to say. Too much in a press release.
It's relevant to say that in this particular case the alchemical processes in the work of the Arte Povera artists finds a natural grou...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Arte Povera: Art from Italy 1967-2002
Arte Povera artists - Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari,
Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe
Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gliberto Zorio – are recognised for their dive...
National Gallery: Masaccio: 'The Pisa Altarpiece'
Tommaso di ser Giovanni, known as Masaccio, was born on 21 December 1401 in San Giovanni Valdarno, south of Florence. It is not known with whom he trained, but he may have spent time in the workshop of the sculptor Donatello. From around 1423 Masacci...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Giovanni Agresti Fiumara: Capetonians©
“Many people are anxious when they’re about to be photographed: not because they fear, as primitives do, being violated but because they fear the camera’s disapproval. People want the idealized image: a photograph of themselves looking their best....
Villa Marcello in Levada di Piombino Dese: THE VILLA INTO THE MIRROR: A Group show with Giovanni Giaconis Facciate, Images of Architectures
Giovanni Giaconi, who describes himself as an archeologist with a nomadic metropolitan life style, lives in both Vicenza and New York because he loves both the aristocratic villas of Italy's Veneto region and the human throng of the great A...
National Gallery of Art: The Triumph of the Baroque:
Architecture in Europe 1600-1750
The exhibition begins in the central galleries on the ground floor of the West Building with the baroque in
Rome. It will continue along the spine of the building, then upstairs to the West Garden Court and alon...
Christie's: Old Master Pictures
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Museum of Fine Art Houston: Art of Rome in the 18th Century
In the 18th century, Rome's civic and religious leaders
commissioned exceptional artists from throughout Europe to
construct and embellish churches, palaces, fountains, public
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offiCina: Paolo Gioli: Thirty Polaroids 50x60 cm
The light sensitive material comes before everything else, states Gioli. The material is the polaroid stock that can be torn away from its negative like a fresco. By treating it over the years, Gioli discovers unsuspected ties with the fathers of ...
Reggia di Colorno: Giovanni Lanfranco A painter in Parma, Rome and Naples (1582 – 1647)
In order to allow such an important artistic event, Neaples and Rome have joined Parma as well. After the exhibition in Parma, Neaples is housing it from 21st December 2001 to 24th February 2002 (Neaples, Castel Sant’Elmo) and Rome from 16th March...
Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi and Co. Gallery: American Artist Dan Walsh
The evolution of his works, from the early 1990s to the present, has led him to abandon the concept of the "ideal" in abstract painting, which in the history of art is always somehow connected with a "psychological condition", in an attempt to giv...
Medieval castle of Monteverde Irpino: Scared Planet : Exhibition to be Part of the Summer Festival
This international exhibition is an aesthetic research about ecology and environment. Images describe a relationship with the nature becoming part of the human soul, coming in dreams, transforming themselves in color. The works are an aesthetic...
Hassan Museum: Fez Fez: Fabrizio Plessi
The installation, presented on the occasion of the
exhibition held in Berlin in 1994, is part of a cycle of works dedicated to the cities visited by Plessi, who likes
to define himself as an untiring traveller, to recreate evocative environments...
Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi and Co. Gallery: Painting on the Roof: Works Curated by Veit Loers
Most of the nine artists come from southern Germany. They come to grips with the idea of narrative art, though without any debt to it. They are interested in the concept of the icon, in the true sense of the term, that of representative painting. ...
the Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi and Co. Gallery: Carsten Nicolai - Modular Re:strukt
Interaction of video imagery, sound and painting is a constant in Nicolai’s work. He has created electronic music for years, using the pseudonym noto. A visit to his website www.raster-noton.de to see all his...
Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Arezzo: Alberto Sughi: The Drawing and the Image
"Alberto Sughi: The Drawing and the Image" gathers together 50 works (all
on paper over canvas) deriving from private collections as well as the
artistís own collection.
The exhibition has been organised by the art historian Giovanni Facce...
Modern Art Museum, Sao Paolo: Panorama da Arte Brasileira 2005 (Panorama of Brazilian Art 2005)
Chaimovich has built the exhibition around eight artistic genres: landscapes, portraits, still-life, genre, allegory, history, religion and emblem. The exhibition’s point of reference is Pliny the Elder’s book Natural History, written in the firs...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Restoring a Masterpiece: Castiglione Conservation Project
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Malmo Konsthall: Ernesto Neto: THE Malmo Experience
Neto's art is a sensual experience which creates associations with the
body and with something organic. He describes his works as an exploration
and a representation of the body's landscape from within. It is important
to Neto that the viewer s...
The Rotonde at the European Union: The 32 Villas of Andrea Palladio: Watercolors and Drawings by Giovanni Giaconi
Scamozzi was an architect from Vicenza of the late XVIII, who reproduced with ink the facades of Venetian houses, showing a certain interest towards a realistic representation. Such works gave Giaconi the idea of applying to these monuments a port...
San Diego Museum of Art: Master Drawings from the Collection of Alfred Moir
Included are fine examples by Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, Luca Giordano, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Solimena, Salvator Rosa, Abraham Bloemaert, and Simon Vouet.
The exhibition presents a selection of works from the personal...
Universita di Napoli - Partenope: Beauitful Elsewhere : Fusion and Con-fusion - Migrating Cultures and the Dynamic of Exchange
Participating Artists:
Isabelle Lamaitre (Belgium), Panayotov Biser Ivanov (Bulgaria), Liu Yang, Liu Wei, Wang Tiewei (China), Ute Illig (Germany), Hiroshi Matsumoto (Japan), Sety Mardiyantoro (Indonesia), Guido Della Giovanna, Gianfranco Er...
Joan Miro Foundation: Sunflower
This idea of transformation is fundamental to his entire work, and the fact of converting a work of art – traditionally an aesthetic object destined only to be looked at – into an inhabitable object with a specific function reveals his capacity fo...
Michael Werner Gallery: Correspondences: Drawings Past and Present”
The selection of drawings in this exhibition illustrates the timelessness of documenting the conceptual process, from the looser, unconstrained studies to the more fully realized. The works show the creative processes of artists through the ages w...
National Gallery of Art: The Unfinished Print: Works by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Munch and Others
The exhibition opens in conjunction with Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades and American
Naive Paintings, which will be on view during the same period in adjacent galleries.
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Irish Museum of Modern Art: Margherita Manzelli: Large Scale Works
Although Margherita Manzelli's paintings are not deliberately intended as self-portraits, they do betray a physical and psychic resemblance to the artist, echoing her earlier work in which performance was an important element. As she states, " I ...
Nipple Gallery Arte Contemporanea: Corpo Elettronico video projections, digital stills and live performance by Elastic Group of Artistic Research
ELASTIC GROUP is a couple of video artist (Alexandro Ladaga e Silvia Manteiga) who from 1999 focuses his artistic research on the integration of philosophy and new-tech. ELASTIC video installation explore the relation between perception and interp...
Spazio Utopia Contemporary Art: A Chiena: International Mail Art Exhibition
Participating in exhibition are:
Giannetto Bravi (Italia), Alexander Brener & Barbara Schurz (Russia/Austria), Gerardina Busillo (Italia), Alfonso Caccavale (Italia), Maria Amalia Cangiano (Italia), Dario Carmentano (Italia), Irina Danilova &...
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K): Genthara: Luigi Ontani
The exhibition at the S.M.A.K. will bring together more than two hundred works from the period 1967-2003. Around thirty works were made for this exhibition. Genthara takes place as part of the Europalia Italia 2003 festival.
You can visit this e...
Frick Collection: A Brush with Nature: The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches
Created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of
doors, these plein-air sketches were painted quickly -- the artists often
spent no more than two hours on a work -- and attempted to capture subtle
atmospheric effects and...
Kunsthalle Bern: PRE-EMPTIVE
It is a calculated handling of reality typical of the postcolonial era, tactics already employed under Reagan; a policy of fighting against the "multiform, manoeuvring and omnipresent". It is also an affirmation of what some people call a Śprophet...
Yale School of Art, Holcombe T. Green Jr. Gallery: Intersections/ Intersecciones: An Exhibition of Cuban Artists
Artists participating in this show are Giovanni Bosch, Christian Curiel, Florencio Gelabert, Coco Fusco, Marco Lau, Leonel Matheu, Julio Armando Mendoza, Maritza Molina, Eduardo Muńoz Ordoqui, Chantal Perez, Hugo Perez, Jesus Rivera and Leandro So...
Palazzo Merolla: Vincenzo Montella to Participate in Biennale of the Artist's Books
Further information about Vincenzo Montella can be found in his Portfolio at absolutearts.com http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/v/vincenzo/
Artists participating:
Alfonso Cac...
National Gallery: Family Fortunes: Painting the Family
We are invited to consider what
we mean by families, and what was meant at different times in history: in
many of these paintings the father is absent and, in some, the painting
was intended to serve as a photograph might today - a reminder, ...
the Warhol: Unnatural Rubber : Artist Competition Celebrates 100 Years of Synthetic Rubber
Each artist was asked to submit a sketch of what they would do if they won the contest, and the winning entry was awarded a $75,000 cash prize and the necessary materials to make the drawing a reality. The winning sculpture, created by Hank Willi...
Centro Studi ed Archivio della Comunicazione: Alberto Sughi Retrospective Collection
Alberto Sughi was born in Cesena in 1928. A self-taught painter, by the end of his formative years he had become one of the greatest Italian artists of his generation. He started painting in the early 1950s, choosing realism in the debate between ...
Art Instutite ofChicago: Raphael and Titian: The Renaissance Portrait
The Raphael and Titian portraits will be on loan to the Art Institute from the Pitti Gallery in Florence, where they are
considered to be two of the greatest masterpieces in the collection. This exhibition offers a rar...
Urbis Museum: Anthony Jones: There Are More of Us
Founded in 1985 Black Arts Alliance is the largest network of Black artists in the UK.
Working on a not-for-profit basis, they exist to remove the marginalisation that Black arts and cultures can experience within the mainstream arts infras...
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