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Van Gogh’s and Gauguin’s masterpieces on display in Genoa, Italy

Until 1st May 2012, the exhibition entitled “Van Gogh e il viaggio di Gauguin” will be on display at Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s Palace) in Genoa, Liguria Region.

Here, visitors will have the chance to marvel at many Van Gogh’s masterpieces and one of Paul Gauguin’s most famous paintings Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?.

Furthermore, visitors will also find several artworks by great artists, such as Hopper, Kandinsky, Rothko, Turner, Morandi, Monet

Unification of Italy, Masterpieces from 19th Century in Genoa

If you are an art lover and are curious to know an important part of Italian History, then you should hurry up and come to Genoa to visit the exhibition “Capolavori d’arte raccontano l’Italia unita” lasting until 6th January 2012!

In the fascinating district of Nervi, close to the sea, four important museums (the Modern Art Gallery, the Wolfsoniana, the Raccolte Frugone and the Museo dell’Accademia Ligustica) are hosting an impressive collection of paintings, sketches, sculptures, dresses of the 19th century.

The exhibition is divided in four areas. The visit starts from the Modern Art Gallery where some portraits of the Savoia family will show us some important aspects of the difficult path which led to the unification of Italy.

The main part of this section is undoubtedly the one concerning portraits of everyday life, with its contradictions of the industrial

Events for 150th Anniversary of Italian Unity continue in Genoa

From last March, 4th, two exhibitions have been being underway at Galleria d’Arte Moderna and Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti in Genoa (Region of Liguria) joined by the same theme: the Italian Unity, from Risorgimento to the New Century.

Such exhibitions show to the visitors some sections about Italy and the Savoy family, the great examples of the past used for educating and teaching history with painting, about Italian lifestyle between traditions and progress, conditions of childhood and Italy at work.

At the Museum of Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti there will be a space dedicated to the revolution of the en plein air painting with the great season of the Scuola dei Grigi

Genoa Biennial: Mediterraneo. From Courbet to Monet and Matisse

Mediterranean Sea Biennial gave to the city of Genoa a great range of cultural events attracting thousand of visitors.

Within this initiative aspirating to become a recurring event over the years, the art exhibition “Mediterraneo. Da Courbet a Monet a Matisse” (Mediterranean Sea. From Courbet to Monet to Matisse) takes place at Palazzo Ducale, a unique occasion to understand the importance of Mediterranean coasts, of villages on cliffs falling sheer into the sea, of storming waves of mare nostrum (as Ancient Romans used to call Mediterranean) in artists’ imagination. The recall to ancient times and Roman glory ever left Mediterranean Sea, covering it with some sort of mythological atmosphere.

The exhibition runs across the evolution of coastal representation of ones who visited Mediterranean area

The American dancer Isadora Duncan in a special Exhibition in Genoa

The Gallery of Modern Art in the town of Nervi (near Genoa, in the Region of Liguria) is placed in the 16th-century Villa Saluzzo and it preserves over 2,500 pieces of art: paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings which date back to the 19th century until contemporary age. Now it waits for you on the occasion of this great event.

As a matter of fact, the gallery hill host from September to December 2010 an exhibition dedicated to the beautiful dancer Isadora Duncan entitled Isadora Duncan in Italia, Un mito della danza sulle rive del Mediterraneo.

Such an exhibition will tell about the period Duncan stayed in Italy