other art exhibits in italy
Here follows a brief city-by-city guide to some of Italy's top art exhibitions in early 2008: (see our webpages for info about Venice exhibits)
ALESSANDRIA - Palazzo Monferrato: Le Corbusier, Drawings and Sketches; Italy's first look at the lesser-known side of the great architect (1887-1965); until March 30.
BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: America! Painting Stories from the New World; 250 works by the 19th-century artists who celebrated the grandeur of the American landscape and life in the West, including Edwin Church, Frederic Remington and Charles Russell; until May 4.
FERRARA - Palazzo dei Diamanti: Joan Miro': The Earth, 80 works in Italy's first retrospective in 25 years; until May 25.
FLORENCE - Palazzo Pitti: Another Beauty; 40 works by 17- century Florentine painter Francesco Furini; to April 26.
FORLI': Museo San Domenico: 'Guido Cagnacci, Protagonist of The 17th Century Between Caravaggio And Reni', 80 works including 44 Cagnaccis; until June 22.
GENOA - Various venues: The Myth of Garibaldi; five shows and dozens of events until March 2.
- Palazzo Bianco: 'From The Cradle To The Altar: Scenes Of Female Life In The Belle Epoque'; until October 10.
MILAN - Palazzo Reale: The Art Of Women, 200 works by 110 artists from 16th to 20th centuries including Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Camille Claudel, Vanessa Bell, Tamara De Lempicka, Frida Kahlo; until March 9.
- same venue: Giacomo Balla, 200 works from 1900 to 1929 including loans from New Yorks MoMa, Paris's National Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Stuttgart's Staatsgalerie and Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza gallery; until May 18.
- Castello Sforzesco: Leonardo's horse studies including model of equestrian statue destroyed by French invaders in 1499; plus various editions of his Treatise on Painting; until March 2.
- Spazio Forma gallery: Richard Avedon 1946-2004, 250 photos ranging from post-war Italy to Fall of Berlin Wall; until June 8.
- Fondazione Mazzotta: Andy Warhol-Joseph Beuys, 30 Warhol works, 40 by Beuys, all inspired by 1980 Campania earthquake; until March 30.
- same venue: The Seventies, A Long Decade in the Short Century; installations on words like Body, Conflict and Demo and symbols like Aldo Moro and Pasolini, plus a wide-ranging look at '70s culture; until March 30.
ROME - Quirinale Place: 'Nostoi' (Ancient Greek for 'returns'); 67 Etruscan, Greek and Roman antiquities looted from tombs and recovered in landmark deals with leading US museums; until March 2.
- Palazzo Massimo: Rosso Pompeiano, 108 paintings and three reconstructed rooms from the golden age of Pompeii; until March 30.
- same venue: Celebrated heads of Pergamon kings Attalus I and Attalus III, loaned from Berlin, on show for first time in Italy; until March 16.
- Museo del Corso: The Forbidden City; more than 300 works from the reign of the cultured Emperor Qianlong; including paintings by Jesuit monk and court painter Giuseppe Castiglione; until March 20.
- Palazzo Venezia: Sebastiano Del Piombo; first major Italian retrospective of neglected Renaissance artist (1485-1547), a contemporary and colleague of Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian. The exhibit features most of Del Piombo's surviving works; until May 18.
- National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM): Lucio Fontana the Sculptor, 70 sculptures, ceramics, drawings from the early 1930s to the late '60s; until May 10.
- Palazzo delle Esposizioni: Gregory Crewdson, 53 snaps by celebrity photographer; until March 2.
ROVIGO - Palazzo Roverella: The Belle Epoque, Art In Italy 1880-1915; 110 paintings including Boldini, De Nittis, Zandomeneghi; until July 13.
TRAPANI - Museo Pepoli: The Idea of the Divine in Caravaggio, 14 masterpieces including one recently discovered by Sir Denis Mahon; until March 14.
TRIESTE - Salone degli Incanti, ex-Pescheria: Ettore Sottsass, 170 pieces personally selected by recently deceased designer; until March 6.