The people of Bologna, those who live in this city, must perceive the Pinacoteca as a place that belongs to them, not only because it is a public institution, but also because it preserves a collection closely linked to the territory, which tells its story through artistic documents of the highest quality from the 14th to the 19th century.
Our aim is to offer the national museum system as a whole new professionals, and at the same time to intuit what will be the professions of tomorrow, in the knowledge that different disciplines need to be networked. (…) The School wants to be the bearer of cultural values that go in this direction, that is, to dialogue, to connect, to relate what we considered distant until a few years ago. A mission that I believe is important.
The Accademia Carrara’s holdings consist of 98% private bequests. Since its foundation, there have been more than 260 donors, with an admirable adherence to Giacomo Carrara’s project that has continued for more than two hundred years, and that has led to the identification of the Carrara with the “museum of collecting”.
Today, the collection comprises more than 6000 objects including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, glass, weapons, gold, watches and textiles. For each collection, the museum holds extraordinary masterpieces, considered by critical literature to be the most important in the world. (…)
To an art lover, getting lost in TEFAF is like being locked in a chocolate shop if you have a sweet tooth. A triumph of sensations that overlap one after the other until they stun you, make you intoxicated with shapes and colours. (…)
Heterogeneous in its offer and renewed in its layout, the 68th edition of BRAFA in Brussels is open until 5 February 2023 in two welcoming halls of the Brussels Expo, an immense Art Deco exhibition complex inaugurated in 1935 for the Universal Exhibition. (…)
The CAMERA Foundation, through its heterogeneous proposals, has allowed the public and us first to get to know different expressions, different photographic modes and worlds, which compared to the documentary and testimonial (…)
The Atlantic Decennial Cruise was organised by Italo Balbo in 1933 (…)
The sale of Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings on May 18…
Gioacchino Assereto distinguished Genoese painting during the first half of the seventeenth…
In the next auction of Furniture, Sculptures and Art Objects to be…
Right from the opening credits The Good, the Bad, the Ugly declares its intentions to ‘historicise’ narrative content in a different way. Not only is there a cannon among the weapons that carve and then dissolve the director’s name (…)
The copper alloy objects constitute the largest group of church furnishings from Russian Christianity in ancient times. They are largely conserved in Russian collections both private and of museums, but they are also found in many western European collections.
The polychrome porcelain plate from the Naples Porcelain Manufactory datable between 1784 and 1788 and decorated with a View of Vesuvius, taken from Monte S. Angelo at the Monis. re de Camandoli (as inscribed) (…)
The production of snuff boxes and more generally of “objects de vertu” is among the most interesting and decorative of the Meissen manufactory: the first mentions in the factory papers of this type of production date back to at least the 1830s. (…)
A large majolica tondo decorated with the heraldic coat of arms of the Martini family of Florence surrounded by a highly decorative sculptural garland (lot 1, estimated value Euro 8,000 – 12,000) (…)
