Macchiaioli in Venice

Art lovers visiting Venice have the opportunity to admire the extraordinary Tuscan masterpieces of nineteenth century, thank to the exhibition that Veneto Institute of Science, Literature and Arts (in collaboration with Arthemisia) dedicates to the famous collection of Mario Taragoni, art collector and philanthropist from Genoa.

A vast number of paintings from the pictorial movement of the Macchiaioli, collected since the First Postwar period, a collection that has been enriched over the years with the works of Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Fattori, Telemaco Signorini, Armando Spadini, Mario Puccini and other great Tuscan artists of the nineteenth century.

Info: www.istitutoveneto.it

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Rome and the Barbarians

Palazzo Grassi presents an interesting exhibition for the satisfaction of all lovers of History in Venice for holiday: from January 26 to July 20, is possible to visit “Rome and the Barbarians, the Birth of a New World”.

The this title summarizes the entire sense of the exhibit, which has the purpose of showing the way Ancient Romans (that were dominating all the Mediterranean coasts) and Barbarian populations (from Scandinavia, central Europe and Asian steppes) came into contact, and respectively modified their habits and customs, shaping the following European cultural and technical heritage and beginning a new era.

Info: www.palazzograssi.it

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