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Art & Culture

UMBRIA: Todi Arts Festival - 29 Aug to 5 September

Aug 24th, 2010 | By June | Category: Art & Culture

One of the most important event of summer in Umbria, the Todi Arte Festival, from 29 August to 5 September 2010..  this year’s editiojn will feature drama, music and dance as well as exhibitions and concerts, wine tasting and of course sampling delicious local food.
There will be an array of national and international artists, all [...]



TUSCANY: Puccini Festival - to 22 August

Aug 7th, 2010 | By June | Category: Art & Culture

Around 40,000 spectators head to Torre del Lago’s Puccini Teatro all’Aperto for the annual Puccini Festival. A series of classical music concerts is performed just a stone’s throw from Villa Puccini, where the composer lived, worked and is buried.
Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot and ballet Romeo and Juliet are the festival highlights in 2010. A gala dinner with the [...]



CORTONA: “Doll’s Houses” Surreal Toy Exhibition 16-31 July

Jul 15th, 2010 | By June | Category: Art & Culture

Another exhibition from DAVID SWIFT, known for his SURREAL TOYS. The exhibition is held this time in beautiful CORTONA at the Palazzo Ferretti on Via Nazionale, the main corso and opposite the tourist information office. This show features a twist on a doll’s house. Having been commissioned to make doll’s houses to commemorate [...]



TUSCANY: “HOT CAKES” Art and Ceramic Sculpture Show: Citerna from 26 June

Jun 20th, 2010 | By June | Category: Art & Culture

Lynne Curran and Fanette Cardinali met almost 4 years ago, when Lynne moved her studio from Scotland to Chiusi della Verna and a short walk along an ancient drovers path from Fanette’s studio and family home in La Rocca.
Fanette’s sculptural pots with their textured surfaces and splashes of colour evoke the human body, whilst Lynne’s [...]



Arts Guide: Exhibits in Italy from 14 May

May 17th, 2010 | By June | Category: Art & Culture

(ANSA) - Rome, May 14 - The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy’s art exhibitions:
BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: Inca, Origins and Mysteries of the Civilisation of Gold; 250 artefacts, until June 27.
COMO - Villa Olmo: Pieter Paul Rubens, 25 works plus 40 by painters of his circle including Van Dyck, [...]



Arts Guide: Exhibits in Italy from 23 April

Apr 30th, 2010 | By June | Category: Art & Culture

(ANSA) - Rome, April 23 - The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy’s art exhibitions:
BASSANO DEL GRAPPA - Museo Civico: 22 works by 16th-century master Jacopo da Ponte, show marks 500th anniversary of birth; until June 13.
BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: Inca, Origins and Mysteries of the Civilisation of Gold; 250 [...]



Florence Tango Festival - 22 to 25 April

Apr 13th, 2010 | By June | Category: Art & Culture

The annual Florence Tango Festival welcomes top international dancers to the city’s Saschall theatre among other venues. The programme includes shows, art exhibitions, workshops, dinners and free tango classes, should you feel inspired by what you see.
With its theme titled Pure Emotion, the 2010 edition sees guests like Damian Gustavo Rosas [...]



Assisi: The Colours of Giotto Exhibition: Apr-Sep 2010

Mar 26th, 2010 | By June | Category: Art & Culture

The Colors of Giotto - The Basilica of Assisi, between virtual restoration and restitution, is an exciting new event designed by Giuseppe Basile, to be held in Assisi for the months from April to September 2010.
This is an innovative exhibition, an art project of great stature, where the visitor is actively [...]



Arts Guide: Exhibits in Italy from March 13

Mar 16th, 2010 | By June | Category: Art & Culture

ANSA) - Rome, March 12 - The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy’s art exhibitions:
AOSTA - Forte di Bard: Wildlife Photographer of the Year; best 100 photos of 2009 chosen by BBC and London’s Natural History Museum; until March 25.
BASSANO DEL GRAPPA - Museo Civico: 22 works by 16th-century master Jacopo da [...]



Rome Arts show celebrates Boldini and friends

Mar 10th, 2010 | By June | Category: Art & Culture

(ANSA) - Rome, March 4 - The challenges and achievements of a colony of bohemian Italian artists living in Paris at the turn of the last century are spotlighted in a crowd-drawing show in Rome.
Over 90 works are on display, focusing principally on the careers of Giovanni Boldini, Giuseppe De Nittis and Federico Zandomeneghi. [...]