Italian art museums and art galleries, Italian art cities, a guide to webpages
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Galleria Borghese, Rome
The Galleria Borghese is an art gallery in Rome and houses a substantial part of theBorghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V. It displays works by Bernini, Michelangelo, Canova, Piero della Francesca and many others.
Genoa
Il Portale della Cultura in Liguria
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Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (ICR) (Institute of Conservation and Restoration, Rome)
The Italian Art Gallery
An interactive meeting place, where various artists using traditional media with different cultural backgrounds can expose their art, hold debates and exchange views with everyday people.
Journals, blogs
ArtKey
L’arte contemporanea in Italia. Trovi le mostre e gli appuntamenti d’arte, le inaugurazioni, gli artisti..
Citta dell’Arte/Arte Italia
An Italian contemporary art portal. Le Café des Artistes. Famous artists discuss their work, Art Dossier (Italian art magazine), Museo, Galleria.
La Republica
Art news, exhibitions, art magazine. Italy and the world.
Saci, the Art Blog
This is the blog of SACI, a US non-profit university-level institution in Florence for undergraduate and graduate students seeking fully accredited instruction in studio art, design, conservation, art history, and Italian language and culture.
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Mantua
Frescoes in the Palazzo Ducale
Andrea Mantegna’s years as court painter in Mantua.
Modena
Santa Agostino: un polo culturale a Modena
The venue is used by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena with the aim of transforming it into a cultural centre. In the future it will host important institutions such as the Centre for Images and Photography, the state library and the civic art library
Museum directories
Italian art museums listed by region and city, a guide to websites.
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Naples Napoli
See: Art in Naples
Il Narratore
Questo e’ un sito multimediale dedicato alle storie, e’ un work-in-progress nell’ambito di un progetto internazionale per il miglioramento dell’ascolto e delle conoscenze linguistiche. Readings by narrators, stage actors and writers.This site is a multimedia work-in-progress within an international project for the enhancement of listening and linguistic skill.
Net-Art
A Virtual Space for Art and Communication. SpazioVirtuale di Arte e Comunicazione.Italian art resources, gallery, directory and free artists services.
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Orvieto
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Padova (Padua)
Frescoes in the Baptistery, Padua (c. 1378)
Padua Baptistery, Wikipedia entry.
Musei civici agli Eremitani. Wikipedia
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- 01. Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple
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- 02. Joachim among the Shepherds
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- 03. Annunciation to St Anne
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- 04. Joachim’s Sacrificial Offering
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- 05. Joachim’s Dream
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- 06.Meeting at the Golden Gate
Art galleries
Parma
Art and museums in Parma. Parmaitaly.com.
Events in Parma. Cinema, musica, teatro, incontri e arti figurative.
Fondazione Casa di Risparmio di Parma
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Parma
Assumption of the Virgin (Correggio), Parma Cathedral,
Assumption of the Virgin (Correggio) WGA
Parma tourist portal. Events, places, monuments.
Provincia di Parma. General portal to Parma.
Verdi. Il sito ufficiale dedicato a Giuseppe Verdi.
Perugia
Galleria Nazional Cumbria, Perugia.
Le collezioni della Galleria Nazionale dell Umbria sono ospitate dal 1878 ai piani superiori di Palazzo dei Priori, uno dei più interessanti esempi di edilizia civile gotica in Italia.
Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria
National Archaeological Museum of Perugia
Perugia Online. Tourist guide.
Perugia
Possagno
Museo Canova
The museum of sculptures by the great Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova.
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Queerway.it, a website of culture, information and art.
QueerArt is the artistic section of QueerWay and seeks to disseminate and raise awareness in Italy about Queer Art, understood in its broadest sense.
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Ravenna
Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna
Associazione Culturale Mirada
Mirada significa sguardo in spagnolo: risuona in questa parola la radice latina di miror, che significa anche stupirsi. I latini sul guardare erano maestri: avevano ben cinque verbi diversi per descrivere l’atto di vedere. Mirada vuole proporre sguardi, sensibilità visiva, imaginerie.
Renaissance art in Italy; Rinascimento; directories
The Renaissance, a list of websites
Italian artists of the Renaissance.
For individual artists see also: Artists
Renaissance art in Italy. 15th and 16th Century Renaissance Art
An extensive directory of Art History links by Chris Witcombe.
The WebMuseum
An image gallery.
Wikipedia entry on The Italian Renaissance
Wikipedia entry on Italian Renaissance painting.
Sardinia
Louise- Alexander.com
The gallery shows mid-career and internationally acknowledged artists from a wide range of mediums; kinetic, video, sculpture, paint and photography. Frederic Arnal has developed an intellectual client base that follows the gallery’s evolving number of artists around the globe.
Museums in Sardinia, a locality guide from Sardegna.com.
Attractions in Sardinia, a guide from The Telegraph.
Sicily/Sicilia
See: Art in Sicily
Siena
Comune di Siena.it
Museums, exhibitions, events.
Museum Santa Maria della Scala
Frescoes of the Good and Bad Government, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in The Palazzo Pubblico.
Simone Martini, an article with images and background information. WGA
Duccio di Buoninsegna, Wikipedia entry.
Duccio, an article with images from the Web Gallery of Art.
Maestà, by Duccio, at Museo dell’Opera del Duomo
Sienese Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Sienese school of painters. Wikipedia
Sienese Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Web Gallery of Art. Art in Siena
Siena
Studio de Angelis
Founded in March 2002, Studio De Angelis is a leader in promoting art and culture through work with public and private institutions, museums, companies and individual artists to publicize exhibitions and events.
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Trieste
Lipanje Puntin Contemporary Art Gallery
Turin/Turino
Artnews guide to art museums, galleries and institutions in Turin.
Artissima
International Contemporary Art Fair, Turin.
Art and culture in Turin. Events, places, art museums and galleries.
Galleria Sabauda
Galleria Sabauda is an art collection which contains the royal art collections amassed by the House of Savoy over the centuries.
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art
Museo Egizio (The Egyptian Museum)
Turin
Tuscany Toscanna
Museums in Tuscany, Trip Advisor
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Umbria
Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria
Urbino
Palazzo Ducale di Urbino e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche
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Vatican Museums, Rome, Collections, online exhibitions.
Veneto district: Belluno, Treviso, Vicenza, Verona, Padova, Venezia, Rovigo
Palladian villas of the Veneto. Wikipedia entries.
Venice/Venezia
See also: The Venice Webpage
Basilica San Marco. Images: interior, exterior, piazza. JSSGallery.org.
St Mark’s Basilica; Wikipedia entry.
Exhibitions, events and museums (mostre et musei) in Venice, a calendar from Venetia.net.
Florian Café (Caffè Florian). One of most the famous cafés in the world.
Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venezia
Vicenza
Palladian villas of The Veneto. The Unesco World Heritage website
Palladian buildings in Vicenza (Wikipedia entries)
Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico Vicenza
Verona
Art Verona
ArtVerona è ormai uno dei maggiori punti di riferimento italiani per il mercato dell’arte moderna e contemporanea.
Circolo del Cinema
Il Circolo del Cinema è un’Associazione di cultura cinematografica (apolitica, aconfessionale e non-profit per Statuto) costituitasi a Verona nel 1947, per iniziativa del prof. Pietro Barzisa e di un gruppo di amici appassionati della settima arte.
Studio La Citta – Galleria D’Arte
Virtual Tourist. Verona tourist website.
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Wikipedia entries on Italian arts and letters.