(ANSA) - Rome, August 14 - The following is a
city-by-city guide to some of Italy's art exhibitions:
ASCOLI - Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea: 'Sedendo e
Mirando', 130 landscapes by cartoonist Tullio Pericoli;
until September 13.
BOLZANO - Museo Archeologico dell'Alto Adige: Iceman
joined by more than 60 mummies from Ancient Egypt, Asia,
South America and Oceania; until October 25.
CALDAROLA (MACERATA) - Palazzo dei Cardinali Pallotta:
reassembled collection of 17th-century cardinal; 60 works by
artists including Caravaggio, Guercino, Guido Reni, Mattia
Preti, Carlo Maratta, Annibale Carracci, Ludovico Carracci
and Elisabetta Sirani; until November 12.
CAVA DEI TIRRENI (SALERNO) - Galleria Civica d'Arte: Los
Desastres de la Guerra, 80 etchings by Goya in his later
years on horrors of war; until September 6.
FLORENCE - Palazzo Pitti, Limonaia: From Petra to
Sharwak, 20 years of Florence University digs at famed
ancient cities in Jordan; until October 11.
- Medici Chapels: show on life and times of Ferdinand I
de' Medici, powerful third grand duke of Tuscany (1549-1609),
marking 400th anniversary of his death; until November 1.
- Palazzo Strozzi: Galileo show marking 400th anniversary
of his first observations of the night sky; 250 exhibits
including the middle finger from Galileo's right hand; until
August 30.
GRADARA - Rocca: Stolen Kisses; show staged in castle
where Dante's famous doomed lovers kissed; 18th-century
paintings of Paolo and Francesca, Romeo and Juliet, Lancelot
and Guinevere and first version of Francesco Hayez's 'The
Kiss'; plus videos of Italian movie kisses; until November 2.
ILLEGGIO (near Udine) - Casa delle Esposizioni: Art
inspired by Biblical Apocrypha including Caravaggio's Rest
During the Flight into Egypt, loaned by Rome's Doria Pamphili
Gallery, Guercino, Durer, Andrea Pozzo, Byzantine and Russian
icons; over 80 works, until October 4.
MARSALA - Convento del Carmine: Monochrome; 70 works from
post-war Italy to the 1970s by artists including Alberto
Burri, Lucio Fontana and Mimmo Rotella; until October 18.
MATERA - Palazzo Lanfranchi: Splendours of the Hidden
Baroque; 100 works by Baroque painters in southern Italy
including Luca Giordano; until November 1.
MILAN - Palazzo Reale: 250 paintings from influential
19th-century Scapigliatura movement; until November 22.
- same venue: Robert Wilson's 'Voom Portraits',
celebrities like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Johnny Depp, Robert
Downey, Salma Hayek, Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau, Brad
Pitt and Princess Caroline of Monaco; but also ordinary
people and animals; until October 4.
- same venue: 20 Monet water lily works from Musee'
Marmottan in Paris; until September 27.
- same venue: 36 years of cartoons by political satirist
Giorgio Forattini; until September 27.
MONTECATINI TERME - Polo Espositivo Terme Tamerici: 19th
century masters including Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega,
Telemaco Signorini and Cristiano Banti; until January 19.
NAPLES - Museo Archeologico Nazionale: The Ancient
Theatre and Masks; until August 31.
- MADRE: Francesco Clemente; 110 works by the New
York-based Italian contemporary artist; until October 12.
NUORO - Museo Man: Fabrio De Andre', multimedia and
interactive show on Genoese singer-songwriter; until October
4.
PORDENONE - Civici Musei d'Arte and Spazi Espositivi
Provinciali: tribute to Harry Bertoia (1915-1978), artist and
designer best known for 'Diamond' Knoll chair, who left
native Friuli at 15; until September 28.
RIMINI - Castel Sismondi and Palazzo della Podesta': 120
works by 100 contemporary Italian painters including Alberto
Sughi and Lanfranco Frigeri, in collaboration with Venice
Biennale; until September 6.
ROME - Scuderie del Quirinale: Shots of War; WWII photos
by photoreporter Lee Miller and US soldier Tony Vaccaro;
until August 30.
Various sites including Forum, Piazza Barberini: 'La Ruta
de la Paz', monumental bronze and marble works by Costa Rican
sculptor Jorge Jimenez Deredia; exhibition outlined at
Palazzo delle Esposizioni; until November 30.
- Colosseum: 'Divus Vespasanius', celebration of Emperor
Vespasian, general who took throne from Nero in 69 AD and
transformed Rome, founding Flavian dynasty which built
Colosseum; until January 10.
- Palazzo Venezia: The Mind of Leonardo, The Universal
Genius at Work; acclaimed exhibit already seen at Uffizi and
in Tokyo; until August 30.
- Palazzo delle Esposizioni: Bulgari, Between Eternity
and History, 1884-2009; 125 Years of Italian Jewels; the
first retrospective in the brand's history, featuring 400
pieces; until September 13.
- Museo Carlo Bilotti: Artists' Speculations - Four
Generations in the Mirror: 30 contemporary artists including
Leandro Erlich and Michelangelo Pistoletto present
mirror-themed works; until October 4.
- Museo Fondazione Roma: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858),
lyrical Japanese landscape artist who influenced Van Gogh and
Monet; 200 woodblock prints on show for first time in Italy;
until September 13.
- Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale Giuseppe Tucci: Murals
of India, 50 photographs by Benoy K. Belh; until October 10.
TIVOLI - Villa d'Este: Landscapes of Latium, Real and
Ideal; 17th and 18th century Dutch and Italian landscape
artists including never-seen Pietro da Cortona; more than 30
works until September 12.
TRENTO - Palazzo delle Albere: Hayez, Prati, Bezzi,
Segantini and other 19th-century Trento painters; until
November 22.
TRIESTE - Palazzo Revoltella: Leonor Fini, 250 works by
Surrealist artist (1907-1996) who Max Ernst dubbed ''the
Italian fury in Paris''; until October 4.
VENICE - Biennale: 53th and biggest-ever edition of
world's oldest arts festival; 90 artists at 77 national
pavilions, including Joan Jonas, Lygia Pape, Michelangelo
Pistoletto, Xu Tan, Thomas Saraceno, Nikhil Chopra and
Anawana Haloba; until November 22.
VERONA - Juliet's House: Marc Quinn sculptures and
installations including famous Flowers cycle and solid gold
Siren inspired by Kate Moss; until September 27.
VINCI - Museo Ideale: 'Joconde. From the Mona Lisa to the
nude Gioconda'; until September 30.