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Seventeenth-century Italian painting between Caravaggio and Reni 01/04/2008
At a time when it appears there can never be too many exhibitions on Italian renaissance painting and Titian in particular (as noted e.g. by Christophe Brouard’s review of the Titian exhibition at Belluno elsewhere on La Tribune de l’Art), it is a (...)
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2007 : A Bernini year in Rome 01/12/2007
2007 is not in any way a special “Bernini year ??? on account of the dates that mark the artist’s birth and death (1598-1680), and yet Rome, which was always the centre of his activities, has seen a number of important Bernini events this past (...)
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Filippo Napoletano alla corte di Cosimo II de’ Medici (1617-1621), 15/04/2008
Usually, it is the book that accompanies the exhibition. In the case of the Filippo Napoletano exhibition in Florence, things are the other way around. Here it was the exhibition that was organised to accompany the publication of Marco (...)
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The Galli Bibiena family in Parma 17/11/2007
The Galli Bibiena family are probably the best known Italian stage designers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Their inventions of fantastical and grand architectural settings graced the stages of Parma, Bologna, Milan, Vienna and (...)
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