Underway is the Mini Master 2023 of “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di Eccellenza” (“One School, One Job. Paths of Excellence”) featuring 25 talented youngsters from all over Italy, gathered in Milan to attend ad hoc classes in Milan’s most prestigious schools and universities during the entire month of November. Once again Starhotels, hospitality partner […]
Milano
Al via i preparativi per la prossima edizione di Homo Faber, che avrà luogo dal 1 al 30 settembre 2024 a Venezia, presso la Fondazione Giorgio Cini. E torna anche Homo Faber in Città, progetto di Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship in partnership con Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte. Con Homo Faber in Città […]
Buy your ticket for the most important event dedicated to the art crafts in Europe Ticket sales are now open to participate in the second edition of “Homo Faber: Crafting a more human future”, the international event dedicated to artistic craftsmanship of excellence. The association with the Giorgio Cini Foundation, on the island of San […]
The world of craftsmanship
Russian sacred art protagonist of a new museum in Florence The Museum of Russian Icons has been inaugurated in Palazzo Pitti, with the tablets that belonged to the Medici and Lorraine collections. There are 78 icons, dated between the end of the sixteenth century and the middle of the eighteenth century, which constitute a conspicuous […]
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More than a book a “still image” of 50 years of Milanese culture. It is the catalog Vetro, artisti e designer milanesi 1976-2023 (My Monkey editions), which followed the exhibition (Sept. 27-Oct. 25, 2023) held in Milan’s L’Originale space. It presents works by artists of different backgrounds, some of which have become icons of 20th-century […]
The exhibition creates a magical conjunction between the works of Ara Strack, a well-known French artist, and Neapolitan glass and wood artisans, in the evocative 16th-century cloister and evidence of industrial archaeology of Santa Caterina a Formiello, in the center of Naples. The installation of the large stained-glass window, at the center of the cloister, […]
21/10/2023 - 20/01/2024
Made in Cloister Piazza E. De Nicola, 48 - Napoli
When high hospitality meets excellent craftsmanship Helvetia & Bristol Firenze – Starhotels Collezione has reopened its doors after a major restoration and modernization, a unique and unprecedented operation in the history of the famous luxury hotel chain. The precious collections of objects, furniture and furnishings ranging from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, have been […]
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In 1973 the Archaeological Group of Montelupo accidentally spotted near an area where there were public wash houses, an ancient well, more than 30 meters deep. Between the late 14th century and the end of the 16th century it was used as a dumping ground by the medieval and Renaissance furnaces active in the town’s […]
Montelupo Fiorentino (FI)
54 paintings of the Carrara Academy of Bergamo in China Until January 3 in Shanghai, the exhibition Maestri. From the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century, presents 54 paintings conserved at the Carrara Academy of Bergamo that outline a journey through art from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century as part of the Magnifico! Alla the […]
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The work of Jodocus Hondius Jr. and Adriaen Veen returned to its splendor thanks to Officina del Restauro The restoration conducted by Officina del Restauro, with the contribution of the Friends of Florence Association, has brought back to its original splendor the Celestial Globe made by Jodocus Hondius Jr. and Adriaen Veen in 1613, preserved […]
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Could be an early 20th century work by Galileo Chini During the restoration of the room on the second floor of the villa, called Omnibus, a decoration emerged, hidden by silks that covered the walls, near the ceiling. It depicts a seascape against an olive-green background from which emerge red corals and large carp, freshwater […]
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The Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti in Lucca presents an exhibition that traces a path through the expressive potential of electronic arts, featuring drawings, videos and video installations by national and international artists. The exhibition begins with Ludovico Ragghianti’s anticipations and reflections on the importance of drawing as a medium of […]
21/10/2023 - 07/01/2024
Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti - Lucca
Monarchs at the table. Banquets at the great Italian Courts is the title of the current exhibition in the evocative rooms of the Rooms of the Arts on the second floor of the Turin Palace. There are more than 200 works including paintings and table furnishings that illustrate the customs and refinement in the ritual […]
28/09/2023 - 28/01/2024
Reggia Venaria - Torino
The exhibition Rosalba Carriera, miniatures on ivory presents the works of an artist, contended by European courts, famous for portraits of personalities, of varying notoriety. Those works are visual testimonies of a century, brilliant and at the same time full of tensions, but fascinating in its contradictions. The exhibition, set up in the enveloping atmosphere […]
13/10/2023 - 09/01/2024
Ca' Rezzonico - Venezia
The new workshops with master craftsmen The workshops of the Project “AD HOC. Strategies for combating early school leaving”, promoted by the social enterprise Con i Bambini, as part of the Fund for combating juvenile educational poverty, coordinated by Cometa Formazione SCS and co-financed by the De Agostini Foundation, are happily continuing. The project implements […]
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A small art book to discover the excellence of Venetian artistic craftsmanship Get ready for the most extraordinary trip you’ve ever taken. Venice Made to Measure is out. Craft Shopping Guide, an immersive experience in the great universe of high Venetian craftsmanship, through a selection of 50 extraordinary shops, forges and ateliers, historical or new […]
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Also for the current year, the initiative “One School, One Job. Scholarships” financially supports the studies of some talented aspiring artisans. For the 2023 edition, three deserving young people have gained access to this important patronage action: Letizia Logrieco, born in Grumo Appula (Bari), attended the Istituto Alberghiero “IISS Tommaso Fiore” in her hometown and […]
From Oct. 6 to 8, 2023 back, in the halls of the historic mansions of Palazzo Ferrero and Palazzo La Marmora in Biella Piazzo, the seventh edition of “Fatti ad Arte,” the event dedicated to high craftsmanship and art professions, was held. Included in the programming of Woolscape, a project born from the collaboration of […]
In this volume, works on musical subjects from the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo and the Cathedral The first volume of the Sonus series has been published. It reproduces pictorial and sculptural images depicting ancient musical instruments. The first volume of this unique iconographic itinerary is dedicated to the works housed in Santa Maria del Fiore, […]
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The 2023 edition of ArtiJanus/ArtiJanas, a project combining the cultures of international design and Sardinian craftsmanship, concluded in Alghero with a major festival entitled ArtiJanus/ArtiJanas: Genius Loci/The Spirit of Places. Promoted and supported by the Fondazione di Sardegna with the scientific and artistic direction of Triennale Milano and Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, the ArtiJanus/ArtiJanas […]