The young beneficiaries of the AD HOC project enjoyed the opportunity to measure themselves against an ancient and poetic art: that of Japanese origami! Under the careful and expert guidance of paper teacher Luisa Canovi, the children were able to try their hand and dexterity, having a lot of fun. In origami, in fact, the […]

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, the Scanavino archive presents the exhibition Emilio Scanavino. This is Tomorrow and simultaneously inaugurates the new location. More than 60 works in glazed terracotta, as well as polychrome majolica, created by the Genoese artist between 1950 and 1970 at Manifattura Mazzotti in Albisola, a meeting place […]

The XIV volume of the magazine Quaderni dell’Associazione Amici di Doccia Quaderni presented in Florence on March 28, 2022 in the Library of Michelozzo in the Convent of San Marco in Florence, is dedicated to Ginori porcelain preserved in the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan and the Correale di Terranova Museum in Sorrento. On that […]

The call for proposals promoted by Fondazione Italia Patria della Bellezza is now in its second edition in 2022. An award in support of cultural projects of various kinds throughout Italy, to accompany and support them in communicating beauty, understood in its broadest and most universal sense: art, tourism, history, landscape care, creativity and design, […]

From April 10 to May 1, Homo Faber is back in Venice! This year’s theme is the relationship between Italy and Japan: the exhibition aims to show how for centuries these traditions, so distant geographically, are actually very close in culture and know-how. This year it will be possible not only to visit the 15 […]

The wonder behind every creative act, the amazement generated by the beauty of gesture and workmanship, the combination of applied arts and performing arts explain the concept and meaning of Prodigio. Mestieri d’Arte e Performance, the exhibition that puts the applied arts in dialogue with other forms of expression, combining the mastery of craftsmanship with […]

The exhibition The Walls of Wonders. Court exchanges between the Gonzagas and Europe, opens the exhibition year 2022 Mantova: l’Arte di vivere, and was inaugurated a few days ago at Palazzo Te. It presents rare decorative apparatuses made of leather which, from the 14th to the 16th century, covered the walls of court palaces to […]

The exhibition Donatello and the Renaissance, which has just been inaugurated in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi and at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, analyzes the artist’s entire oeuvre in a chronologically broad historical and artistic context, which highlights the references to antiquity and medieval art. Moreover, Donatello, assisted by a lively workshop, paid particular attention […]

Venice is a city built on craftsmanship, and its charm also lies in the workshops and small businesses of savoir faire hidden in the city’s alleys. With this edition of the Homo Faber Event, visitors can experience the lagoon city in a different way with Homo Faber in the City, an immersion into all of […]

To allow the widest participation in the Starhotels La Grande Bellezza Award – second edition, we are pleased to inform you of the extension until March 31, 2022 for the submission of entries to the Competition Secretariat. “The Beauty of Nature” is the new, fascinating theme of the biennial Prize: participants are invited to submit […]

Until June 26, 2022, at Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo, it is possible to visit the exhibition dedicated to Vasilij Kandinskij (1866-1944) which presents 80 works created by the artist between 1900 and 1940. Among the paintings there is also an oil painting on glass depicting Amazon with Blue Lions. The painting, kept in St. Petersburg, […]

An exhibition of children for children, and more, features 30 works, including sculptures of deities in childhood and toys from a millennium ago. All the works are placed at a low height to establish a dialogue between children of the imperial age and contemporary visitors. The exhibition at the Uffizi Gallery recounts various stages of […]

On the occasion of Homo Faber 2022, the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte is called upon to curate, in the evocative setting of the Sala dei Cipressi, with the scenic design of the architectural firm Pedron & Associati, an exhibition dedicated to the “wonderful relations” between Italy and Japan, celebrated through an extraordinary selection of […]

After the great success of the first edition, the second edition of the La Grande Bellezza Award promoted by Starhotels, in collaboration with Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, Associazione OMA – Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte and Gruppo Editoriale, is now underway. “The Beauty of Nature” is the new, fascinating theme of the biennial Prize: participants […]

Until March 7, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum is hosting an exhibition dedicated to Federico Zeri, an important and recognized art historian of the 20th century. A free spirit and non-conformist, he left in his writings a wealth of knowledge, research, attributions, which are still today points of reference for those who study the history of […]

The exhibition, on view until March 10, 2022 at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, once the Medici residence that preserves the pictorial cycle, offers the opportunity for a reinterpretation of the pictorial work that combines the Gospel episode with the events linked to the conciliation between the Latin and Byzantine churches and celebrates the rising Florentine family. […]

The Museo Civico Medievale of Bologna hosts, until April 18, 2022, the exhibition Vetri dal Rinascimento all’Ottocento. La donazione Cappagli Serretti per i Musei Civici d’Arte Antica, which presents about 150 precious pieces of glass collected with passion and competence by Bruno Cappagli and Liana Serretti. It is a large and articulated collection but, as […]

The exhibition, curated by Gian Luca Bauzano, after Mirabilia, Vitrea and Fittile, is the fourth in the cycle “Mestieri d’Arte. Crafts Culture”, born from the collaboration between Triennale Milano and Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte. The exhibition aims to narrate and stage the work of Roberto Capucci, one of the greatest protagonists of Italian fashion, […]

The seven hundredth anniversary of Dante’s death commemorates the poet’s presence in Sarzana in 1306. The exhibition Dante and Giotto. Dialogue and suggestion, at the Lia Museum until 19 December 2021, displays precious works on a gold background from Dante’s time that are part of the Museum’s permanent collection, together with others on temporary loan. […]

A century has passed since the rustic villa on the right bank of Lake Garda was transformed into the Vittoriale by Gabriele d’Annunzio in 1921. Among the various celebrations scheduled, the Dante and Gabriele d’Annunzio exhibition presents objects and works illustrating the bond between the two poets. Among the many testimonies are the three large […]