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Stati d’animo. Arte e psiche tra Previati e Boccioni

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The exhibition scheduled for Spring 2018 at Palazzo dei Diamanti explores those innovative tendences and the utopistic dreams that light modern conscience between the Ninteenth and Twentieth Centuries

At the beginning of the modern era, some artists investigated the most obscure corners of human mind, using surprising new languages, to move feelings and imagination.
 
Giovanni Segantini, Gaetano Previati, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Angelo Morbelli, Medardo Rosso, Giacomo Balla, Giorgio de Chirico, Umberto Boccioni and Carlo Carrà were the main characters of this new artistic season...
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The Cavallini Sgarbi Collection. From Niccolò dell’Arca to Gaetano Previati. Treasures of art for Ferrara

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More than 100 masterpieces from the Cavallini Sgarbi Collection on display at the Estense Castle of Ferrara

On Saturday, February 3rd, at the Este Castle of Ferrara, the exhibition “La collezione Cavallini Sgarbi. Da Niccolò dell’Arca a Gaetano Previati. Tesori d’arte per Ferrara” will open to the public.
 
The exhibition is dedicated to the Cavallini Sgarbi Collection, 130 works of art with paintings and sculptures, from the beginning of the XV Century to the XX Century, which have been collected by the art critic Vittorio Sgarbi and his family, and come from the Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation. Elisabetta Sgarbi, on behalf of her Foundation, wanted this exhibition to tell the story of a great cultural activity and of a very passionate family of art collectors in Ferrara.
The col...
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Orlando Furioso: 500 years – What Ariosto saw when he closed his eyes

Orlando Furioso - cosa vedeva l'Ariosto con i suoi occhi
An exciting adventure in the universe of Ariosto, among battles and tournaments, knights and lovers, desires and magic, thanks to the masterpieces of the best artists of the time – from Andrea Mantegna to Leonardo da Vinci, from Dosso Dossi to Raphael, from Michelangelo to Titian.

What did Ludovico Ariosto see when he closed his eyes? Which images crowded his mind when he was composing the poem which marked the Italian Renaissance? Which art masterpieces inspired his creativity?

These are the questions the exhibition organised by the Foundation Ferrara Arte in order to celebrate the five hundred year anniversary from the first edition of the Orlando Furioso, is trying to answer...
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