The 19th edition of the Teatro del Silenzio, the exclusive artistic event that comes to life every year on the hills of Lajatico in the province of Pisa, Maestro Bocelli’s […]
Vasari exhibition, Arezzo, Tuscany
“Svegliando l’animo di molti a belle imprese – Il primato dei toscani nelle Vite del Vasari” Arezzo, Basilica inferiore di San Francesco 3rd September 2011 – 9th January 2012 An […]
Rome, Summer closures Palatine Hill/Roman Forum area
Rome, Summer 2011 The authorities in Rome have just announced that due to staff shortages over the Summer it is possible that one or more of the following (all in […]
Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition, Milan
‘Artemisia Gentileschi, Storia di una Passione’ Milan, Palazzo Reale 22nd September 2011 – 29th January 2012 Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman to be made a member of the Accademia […]
Picasso exhibition, Pisa, October 2011 to January 2012
Pisa, Palazzo Blu ‘Ho voluto essere pittore e sono diventato Picasso’ October 14th 2011 – January 29th 2012 ‘I wanted to become a painter … I became Picasso’ is the […]
Treviso exhibition – Manciù, the Last Emperor
‘Manciù, l’Ultimo Imperatore’ Treviso, Casa dei Carraresi 29th October 2011 – 13th May 2012 ‘Manchu, the Last Emperor’ is an expansive exhibition on the Manchu Dynasty, the last great Chinese […]
Exhibition – Dalí’s illustrations of the Divine Comedy
‘Ossessione Dalì. Passione, ribellione e lucida follia’ Follonica, Castell’Azzara and Porto S. Stefano, Maremma, Tuscany July 12th to October 30th 2011 In 1951 Salvador Dalì was commissioned to create a […]
Rome exhibition – European artists of 100 years ago
‘Artisti europei a Roma nel 1911’ Rome, Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen July 9th – October 2nd 2011 An exhibition of works that were bought together for the 1911 International Exhibition […]
Rome, Colosseum, July 2011 – potential problem with disabled access
The voices in the corridor – as goes the saying here – have it that it’s possible that the lift/elevator at the Colosseum in Rome may well be out of […]
Julian Schnabel exhibition, Correr Museum, Venice
‘Julian Schnabel. Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of seeing’. Museo Correr, Venice June 4th – November 27th 2011 Featuring more than 40 works (paintings and sculpture) from this influential American […]
Rome, Summer nights at Castel Sant’Angelo
‘Notti d’estate a Castel Sant’Angelo’, Rome July 1st – September 4th 2011 A series of Summer events at the ‘Angel’s Castle’, one of Rome’s most imposing monuments. Every night of […]