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Events in Art and Archaeology

Basilica of St. Francis
ASSISI  •  Basilica of St. Francis  •  Ongoing
 
In 1997 the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi was severely damaged by an earthquake. Since that time major restorations have repaired the bell tower, main vault and frescoes of the four saints on the entrance arch. It is expected to take until 2003 to restore the other frescoes including Giotto's St. Jerome. The Upper Church of the basilica reopened to the public on Sunday 28 November 2001 with the celebration of a commemorative mass.

Contact: Tel: (39) 75 81 90 01

Egyptian Museum of Turin
TURIN  •  1 January 2002 - 1 January 2011
 
Renovated in 1988, the Egyptian Museum of Turin (the second in the world after the Cairo Museum) was established in 1824. The Drovetti Collection, the core holdings of the Egyptian Museum, comprises 98 statues, as well as an important collection of papyri.

Egyptian Museum of Turin Web Site


Egyptain Art in The Age of The Pyramids

Contact: Tel: (39) 11 56 17 776
(39) 11 56 18 391

Giorgione:&nbsp;<EM>Le tre età dell’uomo</EM>Oil on canvas 62 x 78 cmPalazzo Pitti, Galleria PalatinaFlorencePhoto courtesy of Museo Casa Giorgione
Giorgione: Le tre età dell'uomo
Oil on canvas
62 x 78 cm
Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina
Florence
Photo courtesy of Museo Casa Giorgione
Giorgione
CASTEFRANCO VENETO  •  Museo Casa Giorgione  •  12 December 2009 - 11 April 2010
 

According to the most authoritative accounts, the fifth centenary of the death of Zorzi da Castelfranco, better known as Giorgione (Castelfranco Veneto 1477/78 – Venice 1510), occurs in 2010 and Castelfranco Veneto, the birthplace of the great artist and home to one of his most important works (the famous Castelfranco Altarpiece) as well as to one of the very few frescos attributed to Giorgione (Frieze of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts), is staging a wide-ranging exhibition in collaboration with the Veneto Region, which has set up the Regional Committee for the Fifth Centenary of the Death of Giorgione.

The  survey at the Museo Casa Giorgione enables visitors to admire the masterpieces from the first phase in Giorgione's career, alongside those by artists he was in contact with during his short life,  including Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Costa, Carpaccio, Perugino, Sebastiano del Piombo, Palma the Elder,  Leonardo, Raphael and Titian.

Major national and international museums have contributed in homage to the great master from Castelfranco Veneto: among others, the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg, the Uffizi of Florence, the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana of Milan, the Louvre of Paris, and the National Gallery of London.



Museo Casa Giorgione Website


Contact: Museo Casa Giorgione
Piazza San Liberale
31033 Castefranco Veneto
Tel: (39) 49 20 10 076

Cristo deriso - particolare
Cristo deriso - particolare
Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel
PADUA  •  Cappella degli Scrovegni  •  ongoing
 
Giotto's newly restored masterpiece reopens to the public on the same day (25 March) in 2002 that his banker patron Enrico Scrovegni opened the frescoed chapel in 1305. The frescoes depict the life of Christ, the Virgin Mary and the Last Judgment, and are widely considered Giotto's highest achievement.

Advance booking is advisable as only a limited number of visitors will be admitted to the chapel for some 15 minutes in order to protect the frescoes. The cost of a ticket is 11 Euros.

La Cappella degli Scrovegni Web Site


Click here to read a Culturekiosque feature on Early Italian Painting

Contact: Tel: (39) 049 20 100 20

Giulia Piscitelli: <EM>Worker</EM>, 2006 Courtesy Galleria Fonti, NaplesPhoto courtesy of Museo Madre
Giulia Piscitelli: Worker, 2006
Courtesy Galleria Fonti, Naples
Photo courtesy of Museo Madre
BAROCK Art, Science, Faith and Technology in the Contemporary Age
NAPLES  •  Museo Madre  •  13 December 2009 - 5 April 2010
 
 

This exhibition, curated by Eduardo Cicelyn and Mario Codognato, explores the similitudes between the cultural themes that are representative of the beginning of the new century and those that made the visual imagination of the Baroque Age so powerful and grandiose. Barock investigates issues that permeated the XVII century and are still distinctive of our time, showing how the typical themes of the Baroque culture of the 17th century have been revived by contemporary artists.

The revolutionary scientific and technological discoveries that day after day challenge established certainties and habits; the great religious zeal that led to the fundamentalism, the obscurantism and to clashes between civilizations which produced unprecedented slaughters: the disorientation of contemporary imagination then appears to be caused by ideological conflicts and tragic experiences for issues that are not very different from those that shaped the century of Galileo Galilei and of the Counter-Reformation. The most obvious similitude between the artists featured in the exhibition and the Baroque Masters lies in the "sensational" images they use, images that aim at striking the senses, at being extreme in their violence, in their sensuality, in their frankness, that do not fit in any category and escape definition.

For example, in Worker (at left), Giulia Piscitelli (b. 1965, Napoli) endows an ancient symbol of the Memento Mori --- closely related in Naples to the traditional cult of the dead --- with a concrete and immediate presence through a tangible object at the Baroque cloister of the Charterhouse of San Martino.

The show features 28 artists: Adel Abdessemed, Micol Assaël, Matthew Barney, Domenico Bianchi, Bianco - Valente, Antonio Biasiucci, Keren Cytter, Mircea Cantor, Maurizio Cattelan, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Claire Fontaine, Lara Favaretto, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons, Jannis Kounellis, Shirin Neshat, Carsten Nicolai, ORLAN, Philippe Parreno, Giulia Piscitelli, Michal Rovner, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Sislej Xhafa.



Museo d'arte contemporanea Donna Regina Website


Contact: Museo d'arte contemporanea Donna Regina
Museo Madre
Via Settembrini 79
80139 Naples, Italy
Tel: (39) 081 193 13 016

De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus: A Look into the Invisible
FLORENCE  •  Palazzo Strozzi  •  26 February - 18 July 2010
 
 

Starting from the fundamental exhibition organised in Zurich, Berlin and Munich in 1997, Boecklin, De Chirico, Ernst. Eine Reise ins Ungewisse and the essays written by Wieland Schmied and David Sylvester towards the end of the Seventies, this exhibition explores the early years of the career of De Chirico and the influence of his first works on movements such as Surrealism and the Neue Sachlichkeit.

De Chirico was born in 1888 in Greece and partly raised there, where his engineer father designed and built railway lines. He had a prolific artistic career, and lived to a grand old age, almost as long as Picasso. He died in 1978. Having studied in Munich, at the age of twenty-one and fascinated by the work of the Symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin, he began to paint a series of strange and oneiric cityscapes. Displayed in Paris after 1911 they were enthusiastically greeted by painters and poets from Picasso to Paul Éluard, and very soon De Chirico became one of the heroes of Surrealism.

This phase of his work – the so-called metaphysical painting – lasted up to around 1918. Subsequently De Chirico changed direction. He wanted to become a classicist – and almost succeeded.



Palazzo Strozzi Website


Contact: Palazzo Strozzi
Piazza Strozzi
50123 Firenze
Tel: (39) 055 2645155

<P>Piero della Francesca (San Sepolcro, Ar 1412-1492)<EM>Madonna col Bambino benedicente e due angeli</EM> Galleria Nazionale della Marche, UrbinoPhoto courtesy of Palazzo Pitti</P>

Piero della Francesca (San Sepolcro, Ar 1412-1492)
Madonna col Bambino benedicente e due angeli
Galleria Nazionale della Marche, Urbino
Photo courtesy of Palazzo Pitti

L'Arma per l'Arte: Aspects of the Sacred Rediscovered
FLORENCE  •  Palazzo Pitti  •  21 November 2009 - 6 April 2010
 
 

Forty years ago, in May 1969, the special squad of the Carabinieri assigned to the protection of the cultural heritage was set up, which then in 1975 became functionally answerable to the newly-established Ministry for the Cultural Heritage.

The exhibition, set up in the Sala Bianca of the Pitti Palace, is devoted in particular to sacred art, and hence to paintings and objects stolen from churches and convents, and sometimes museums, but in all cases works on sacred subjects or objects of liturgical use. Consequently this tends to bring to light how, for many different reasons, sites of worship tend to be exposed to the risk of theft and damage and how over time the squad of the Carabinieri specialised in this sector has set its resources and competence at the service of the Church and its enormous artistic heritage.

What the selected works have in common, first and foremost, is the very high “quality”, illustrating how even unrivalled masterpieces, which one would think are immune to all risk, have over time been involved in more or less sensational robberies.

As well as being arranged in chronological order, the works are also divided up into panels, canvases, sculptures and works of applied art, illustrating how the thefts have indiscriminately affected different genres. Another criterion of selection could be defined as “geographical”, since because the work of the special squad of the Carabinieri covers the entire country, the works on display too ought to represent all the different Regions of Italy.



L'Arma per l'Arte Website


Contact: Palazzo Pitti
Galleria Palatina - Sala Bianca
Florence, Italy
Tel: (39) 055 29 48 83

The Machines and the Gods
ROME  •  Centrale Montemartini  •  20 October 2009 - 15 June 2010
 
 
The exhibition, entitled The Machines and the Gods, puts side by side two diametrically opposed worlds, those of classical art and industrial archaeology.  In an atmospheric game of contrasts, the old machinery of electricity production becomes the backdrop for masterpieces of ancient sculpture and precious goods found in the excavations of the late nineteenth century and the 1930s. The display reconstructs some of the great monumental complexes and illustrates the development of the ancient city from the Republican era to the late imperial age.

Musei Capitolini Website


Contact:

Centrale Montemartini
via Ostiense 106
00154 Roma


Tel: (39) 6 39 96 78 00

Events in Classical Music

Concerto Italiano
ROME  •  Sala Sinopoli  •  31 March 2010
 

Melani, Fabri, A. and D. Scarlatti

Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini, director

 



Parco Della Musica Website



Detailed schedule information:
20h30

Contact: Parco Della Musica
Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30
00196 Rome
Tel: (39) 06 80 82 058

Steve Reich
Steve Reich
Steve Reich: City Life
ROME  •  Sala Petrassi  •  8 April 2010
 

Steve Reich: City Life

PMCE Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble
Manuel Zurria, flute
Paolo Fratini, flute
Giovanni Cretoni, oboe
Pietro Picone, oboe
Paolo Ravaglia, clarinet
Luca Cipriano, clarinet
Paolo Sasso, violin
Suvi Valjus, violin
Gabriele Croci, viola
Francesco Sorrentino, cello
Massimo Ceccarelli, bass
Gilda Buttà, piano
Francesco Prode, piano
Oscar Pizzo, electric keyboard
Lucio Perotti, electric keyboard
Antonio Caggiano, Antonino Errera, Flavio Tanzi percussion
Luca Nostro, electric guitar
Bernardo Nardini, electric guitar

i chitarristi dei Conservatori e delle Scuole di Musica di Roma

Roberto Cecchetto, solo guitar

Tonino Battista, conductor

Steve Reich, sound director



Auditorium Parco Della Musica Website



Detailed schedule information:
21h

Contact: Parco Della Musica
Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30
00196 Rome
Tel: (39) 06 80 82 058

Joanna MacGregor , piano
ROME  •  Teatro Studio  •  30 March 2010
 
 
Charles Ives Three Page Sonata
Conlon Nancarrow Prelude and Blues
Lou Harrison Slow Movement, Piano Concerto
Joanna MacGregor Cross Border (with tape)
Somei Satoh Incarnation (with delay effect)
Frederic Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
John Cage: Credo in US for piano, percussioni e radio. Con la partecipazione della
PMCE Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble
Gianluca Ruggeri e Flavio Tanzi percussioni
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Insensatez
Baden Powell/Vincius de Moraes :Canto de Ossanha
Egberto Gismonti: Frevo
Piazzolla arr MacGregor Four Tangos: Tanguedia, Buenos Aires Hora Cero, Milonga del Angel, Libertango

Joanna MacGregor , piano

Auditorium Parco Della Musica Website



Detailed schedule information:
21h

Contact: Tel: (39) 06 80 82

Events in Jazz

Hank Jones
ROME  •  Sala Sinopoli  •  6 April 2010
 
Hank Jones

Auditorium Parco Della Musica Website



Detailed schedule information:
21h

Contact: Parco Della Musica
Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30
00196 Rome
Tel: (39) 06 80 82 058

Enrico Pieranunzi, Rosario Giuliani
ROME  •  Teatro Studio  •  22 March 2010
 
 
Enrico Pieranunzi, Rosario Giuliani

Parco Della Musica Website



Detailed schedule information:
21h

Contact: Parco Della Musica
Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30
00196 Rome
Tel: (39) 06 80 82 058

Events in Pop Culture and Cinema

Ferrari Gallery
MARANELLO (MODENA)  •  1 January 2002 - 1 January 2011
 
 
Built in 1988 and officially inaugurated on the 18th February 1990, this modern two story building houses exhibits of both racing and road cars. The museum was built by the local government in collaboration with Ferrari S.P.A.

Ferrari Gallery Web Site


Contact: Via Dino Ferrari, 43
41053 Maranello (Modena)
Tel: (39) 536 94 32 04



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