Arts guide: exhibits in Italy

(ANSA) - Rome, November 21 - The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy's top art exhibitions: BOLOGNA - Pinacoteca Nazionale: Amico Aspertini (1474-1552), A Bizarre Artist in the Age of Durer and Raphael; until January 26.

BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: Van Gogh, Masterpieces from the Kroeller-Mueller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands; until January 25.

CORTONA - Etruscan Academy Museum (MAEC): 30 masterpieces of Etruscan art from Russia's Hermitage museum including the only Etruscan bronze funerary urn ever found; until January 6.

FLORENCE - Palazzo Medici-Ricciardi: Raphael's Madonna del Cardellino (Madonna of the Goldfinch) on show from November 23 to March 1 after eight-year restoration.

- Palazzo Strozzi: Caterina and Maria de' Medici, Women in Power; until February 8.

- Palazzo Pitti: The Medicis And Science; large collection of scientific writings and tools; until January 11.

- same venue: The Other Face Of The Soul, 60 portraits by Giovanni Fattori, some unseen, showing other side of 19th-century artist famous for military subjects and Maremma landscapes; until January 25.

- Archaeological Museum: retrospective on British sculptor Matthew Spender, who has lived in Tuscany for the last 40 years; until December 30.

GENOA - Palazzo Ducale: 'Lucio Fontana Light and Colour'; until February 15.

- Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Via Croce: Shozo Shimamoto; until March 8.

MAMIANO DI TRAVERSETOLO (PARMA) - Fondazione Magnani-Rocca: Giovanni Fattori, The Poetry of Truth; until November 30.

MANTUA - Ducal Palace; first major show on Jacopo Alari-Bonacorsi aka Antico, including celebrated Vaso Gonzaga; until January 6.

MILAN - Palazzo Reale: Rene' Magritte and the Mystery of Nature; around 100 paintings featuring Magritte's signature apples, blue skies and birds; November 22-March 29, one of Italy's largest-ever Magritte events.

- same venue: Georges Seurat, Paul Seignac and the neo-Impressionists; over 100 works from major international museums; until January 25.

- same venue: Tiepolos and Canalettos from the Terruzzi Collection; until January 11.

- Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation: 'Great Works 1972-2008'; until March 22.

- Brera Academy and Palazzo Stelline (Credito Valtellinese): Mario Schifano 1943-1998, Selected Works; retrospective marking 10th anniversary of artist's death, previously at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome; until February 1.

- Fondazione Mazzotta: ethnic art from Peggy Guggenheim collection; until February 22.

- Museo Poldi Pezzoli: Japanese 'netsuke' mini-sculptures from four Italian collections and Stuttgart's Linden Museum; until March 15.

MONTECATINI TERME - ex-Terme Tamerici: Boldini Mon Amour; 180 works by Parisian School portrait painter Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), many unseen including three portraits of secret lover Countess Rastj; until December 30.

NAPLES - Archaeological Museum: Herculaneum: Three Centuries of Discoveries; until April 2009.

- Madre modern art gallery: Robert Rauschenberg, Travelling 1970-76; until January 19.

NUORO - MAN gallery: Man Ray, 300 pieces from his private collection; until January 6.

PALERMO - Palazzo dei Normanni: The Fantastic World of Picasso, 66 works until March 8.

PARMA - National Gallery: Correggio, biggest exhibit on once-neglected artist in years; around 80 works flanked by 40 by contemporaries, plus chance to see three most important frescos up close in city churches; until January 25.

PERUGIA - Palazzo Baldeschi al Corso; From Corot to Picasso and Fattori to De Pisis, modern Italian and European art from two private collections including Monet, Van Gogh and Modigliani; until January 15.

REGGIO EMILIA - Palazzo Magnani and other venues; Matilda and the Treasure of Canossa, 200 works of Medieval art; until January 11.

ROME - National Modern Art Gallery (GNAM): big Giorgio de Chirico show marking 30 years from artist's death; 100 works, never sold and most never seen, from vaults of GNAM and de Chirico Foundation, spanning career, apart from well-known metaphysical works, from 1919 until early 1970s; also studies of Guido Reni, Titian, Rubens; until January 25.

- Chiostro del Bramante: The Myth of Julius Caesar, first ever show focusing on him alone; 200 items from ancient times until the 20th century; until April 5.

- Museo della Civilta' Romana: The Die Is Cast, sketches of Ancient Rome by Gilles Chaillet; until March 1.

- Castel Sant'Angelo: Logos of Italy; Stories in the Art of Excellence; iconic Peroni bottles, Olivetti typewriters, Buitoni pasta, Perugina chocolate 'kisses', a Fellini 'breast' armchair, Warhol poster for Martini drinks, first ANSA dispatch; until January 25 when it goes on world tour of Italian cultural institutes from Russia to the US, Tokyo and Dubai, ending in 2011. - Galleria Ca d'Oro: Homage to Giorgio de Chirico, works by 48 artists including Mario Ceroli, Enzo Cuchi and Renato Cuchi; until December 7.

- Vittoriano: Picasso 1917-1937, the Harlequin of Art; more than 180 works in first major Rome show on Spanish artist in 55 years; until February 8.

- Scuderie del Quirinale: Giovanni Bellini, biggest show in 50 years on artist Durer called 'the best of them all'; until January 11.

- Palazzo delle Esposizioni: Etruscans, The Ancient Metropoli of Latium; until January 9.

- Colosseum: Ruins and Rebirths, 80 works charting development of heritage protection; until February 15.

- Museo di San Salvatore in Lauro: Visions of Grand Tour by Russian visitors to Italy (1640-1880), 60 works in collaboration with Hermitage showing how landmarks like Rome's Pantheon, Milan's Piazza Duomo and Florence's Piazza della Signoria have changed; until February 22. - Fondazione Memmo: Basquiat, 40 works until February 1.

- Museo dell'Ara Pacis: Bruno Munari, retrospective on artist and designer; until February 22.

TREVISO - Casa dei Carraresi: Canaletto, Venice and its Splendours; until April 5.

TRIESTE - Ex-Pescheria Centrale: Trieste 1918, The First Redemption; military equipment, memorabilia, photos from WWI; until January 25.

TURIN - Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli: 164 works from the famous Bischofberger collection until March 1.

VENICE - Guggenheim Museum: Carlo Cardazzo, A New Vision Of Art, pieces from his collection including de Chirico, Sironi, Campigli, Scipione, Marini and the architect Carlo Scarpa; until February 9.

- Palazzo Grassi: Italics, Italian contemporary art 1968-2008; until January 11.

VICENZA - Palazzo Barbaran: 'Palladio 500', 200 works including 30 models of Palladian architecture plus art by Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian celebrate Andrea Palladio on the 500th anniversary of his birth; until January 9, when it moves to London (Royal Academy of Arts, 31 January - 13 April 2009) and on to Washington in autumn 2009.

VIGEVANO - Castello: Futurism and Modernity, mainly local artists; until December 14.

photo: Magritte, Le Praitre Marie' (The Married Priest, 1961)



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