(by Nicoletta Castagni).
A number of important
exhibitions start this weekend across Italy.
Works by the enigmatic and controversial Balthus will be
back in a large exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale museum
and the French Academy at Villa Medici in Rome.
In Padua, work by 19th-century painter Giovanni Fattori,
one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli, goes
on display with canvases ranging from his early years as a
painter of historic and military themes to the monumental pieces
of his later years.
Milan is hosting an exhibition of works by Italian painters
in Paris during the Belle Epoque period.
The Balthus exhibition will run from October 24-January 31
in the city that proved so important for the artist's
development. Some 200 works exhibited including paintings,
drawings and photographs on loan from the most important
European and American museums, as well as prestigious private
collections.
The exhibition is divided into two segments, with a
retrospective of his best-known work at the Scuderie and a body
of work he completed while in Rome on view at the Villa Medici.
Here, the focus will be on the artist's method and creative
process - his studio, his use of models, his techniques and use
of photography.
PADUA - The entire creative career of Giovanni Fattori will
be exhibited from October 24-March 28 at Palazzo Zabarella,
From his first works with the Macchiaioli movement to
monumental, Risorgimento-inspired canvases and ones with
socio-political themes down to the 20th century avant-garde:
A careful selection of works reconstructs the artist's
extraordinary versatility.
His legendary tablets flooded with colors are on display,
as is La Rotonda di Palmieri, showing the very beginnings of the
Macchiaioli movement, and his more mature monumental paintings.
MILAN - Belle Epoque. Paris Seen by Boldini, De Nittis and
Zandomeneghi will be at GAM Manzoni from October 23 to February
21.
The thirty-five works on display at the Belle Epoque
exhibition retrace the fundamental stages of the artists'
careers during their time in the French capital.
Boldini, De Nittis and Zandomeneghi interpreted the dreams
of a world straddling the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
that of the Belle Epoque in Paris, where they decided to live,
sharing fame, professional success and friends, like fellow
artists Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Antonio Mancini and Edoardo
Tofano.
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