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Costanza Macrì e Monica Candido are the winners of the “Artigiano Del Cuore” Competition – 6th Edition 2023


Costanza Macrì and Monica Candido, goldsmiths and owners of the artisan business and workshop CosMonique Gioielli, are the winners of Artigiano Del Cuore (Artisan of the Heart) 2023 – 6th Edition. After being selected as finalists along with 9 other artisan enterprises, it was the community, through online voting, that chose them as “Artigiano Del […]


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Ugo La Pietra: “Attrezzature urbane per la collettività” in mostra fino al 10 settembre

Visitabile negli spazi dell’ADI Design Museum di fino al 10 settembre, la mostra fa riferimento alle ricerche di Ugo La Pietra sul rapporto individuo/ambiente e in particolare lo spazio collettivo urbano. Fin dalla fine degli anni Sessanta, La Pietra ha indagato il territorio urbano, espressione formalizzata delle contraddizioni della vita sociale. Dalle periferie (Gradi di […]

15/06/2023 - 10/09/2023
ADI Design Museum - Milano

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The restoration of Andrea del Castagno’s fresco restores a “new” image of Dante

The restorers of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence have restored the portrait of the supreme poet by Andrea del Castagno (1421-1475) to its original color, removing sediments and pictorial retouches that had darkened the colors. An unprecedented image emerged with that brilliance that is proper to mural painting. Moreover, Dante’s face has more […]

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Artijanus/Artijanas

Online workshop for Sardinian artisans and craft enterprises ArtiJanus/ArtiJanas is the experimental project of design and craft culture promoted and supported by the Fondazione di Sardegna together with Triennale Milano and with the collaboration of Fondazione Cologni. The seminars and workshops for innovation and markets, developed by Fondazione Cologni, will involve Sardinian artisans and artisan […]

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Lenci Ceramics. The collection of Giuseppe and Gabriella Ferrero and twentieth-century Turin

132 works by the Turin-based manufacturer Lenci were donated to the Royal Museums by collectors Gabriella and Giuseppe Ferrero. They are works made by various artists between 1928 and 1936. Beyond the variety of subjects and the aesthetic pleasantness of the figurines, the exhibition expresses the modernity of the European avant-garde and the solid references […]

23/06/2023 - 31/12/2023
Musei Reali, Galleria Sabauda - Torino

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Culture Action at Museo Poldi Pezzoli

A cultural program to bring young people closer to museums The ratification of the Faro Convention opens a new phase for culture and turns the spotlight on young people called to actively participate in the protection of artistic heritage. Culture Action is a cultural program conceived and designed by the young people of the Poldi […]

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Ca’ Rezzonico reopens: a museum… but more importantly, an icon of Venice

The Museum of Eighteenth-Century Venice at Ca’ Rezzonico, a seventeenth-century palace acquired in 1935 by the Municipal Administration of Venice, reopens after restoration work in the reception spaces on the ground floor that anticipate the visit with a striking room overlooking the Grand Canal. The collection, which includes paintings but also objects and furnishings from […]


Ca’ Rezzonico Dorsoduro 3136 - Venezia

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The book 2000/2020 Design Super Show is out

The history of Superstudio Più in via Tortona, the first multicultural hub of Milan The long-awaited book that traces the birth of Milan’s first multicultural hub, Superstudio Più in via Tortona, and of the city’s most important event, the Design Week, which started right here, is now out. The book 2000/2020 Design Super Show by […]

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All’Ombra di Leonardo. Arazzi e cerimonie alla corte dei papi

The tapestry, made of silk and silver and gold threads preserved in the Vatican Museums, reproduces Leonardo’s famous fresco in Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It was given in 1533 by Francis I of France to Pope Clement VII, Julius de’ Medici, for the wedding of his son Henry of Valois to Catherine de’ […]

21/03/2023 - 03/09/2023
La Venaria Reale - Torino

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Emporio MIDA

The new digital showcase for artisans Emporio Mida, a permanent digital showcase dedicated to exhibitors, is active on the Mida platform. A tool to promote and sell craftsmanship 365 days a year, designed to meet the needs of artisans in the context of the international market. With Emporio Mida, users will be able to view […]

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Donate your 5×1000 to the Cologni Foundation and support artistic craftsmanship

Artisans are protagonists of added value in the Italian economic system: support their talent with a simple donation, indicating the Tax Code of Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte in your tax return: 97155080159. With this small gesture you can help concretely promote the activities of our Foundation in favor of the “intelligent hands” that create […]


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“From wine and ceramics to ceramics and wine”: the example of Fondazione Lungarotti in Torgiano, Umbria

A video, detailed but also agile, illustrates the history of the ceramic collection of the Lungarotti Foundation, primary nucleus of the Museum of Wine (MUVIT), inaugurated in 1974. The project was started in the sixties in order to contextualize the Umbrian wine history through ceramic containers, in a reciprocal dialogue between the product of the […]

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Fundraiser to support Faenza pottery world affected by flooding

The flood that hit Emilia Romagna in recent weeks has severely damaged the city of Faenza and its many workshops, workshops, ateliers and studios of ceramic artists throughout the city. Great masters and small artisan businesses that carry on an ancient craft, of inestimable historical-artistic, territorial and identity importance, have suffered irreparable damage. For this […]


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Fondazione Cologni is Honorary Member 2023 of Altagamma

At Palazzo Colonna, in the heart of the capital, the investiture ceremony of Fondazione Altagamma’s 2023 Honorary Members was held on Monday, May 15. This recognition, inaugurated in 2002 by Leonardo Ferragamo, welcomes into the prestigious Altagamma ecosystem women and men, companies and national and international institutions that have contributed to promoting Italian excellence and […]


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I costumi teatrali per gli intermezzi del 1589 (Theatrical costumes for the intermezzos of 1589)

Theater, music and costumes at the Medici court The essay published in 1859 by Aby Warburg, I costumi teatrali per gli intermezzi del 1589 (Theatrical costumes for the intermezzos of 1589), for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the reform of opera in music in Florence, has been re-published by Electa, which acquired (2020) […]

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February 12 to celebrate 70 years of Italian fashion

In the Villa Torrigiani in Florence, where fashion was born thanks to the fashion show organized by Giovanni Battista Giorgini, an international press conference and the preview of the first biography dedicated to the father of Made in Italy At 2 p.m. on February 12, 2021, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the […]

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Oro e Oriente. Galileo Chini a Salsomaggiore Terme

On May 27, 1923, the Salsomaggiore spa complex, designed by Ugo Giusti and decorated by Galileo Chini, whose 150th birth anniversary falls on this day, was inaugurated. It is a grandiose work that reconciles memories of art nouveau, with suggestions of the Viennese secession, with motifs already in Deco taste and oriental enchantments. The exhibition […]

27/05/2023 - 17/09/2023
Salsomaggiore

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The Peruzzi jewelry store archives: a story of beauty and creativity of a Florentine “workshop”

In the evocative space of the former Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte, now the Cathedral of the Image, theater of Arte Immersiva, the volume Gioielli a Firenze-Jewels in Florence was presented. Fratelli Peruzzi Archive 1880-1970, edited by Bianca Cappello, published by Livorno-based Sillabe Publishing House. Patient cataloging has returned drawings, plans, notes, photos, and […]


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“Cremona is music”. The web campaign to enhance and publicize the culture and tourism of the area

Cremona is music is the new project of the City of Cremona born within the actions of tourism promotion that aims to develop and expand the effects of the campaign #inLombardiaComeMe, created by the Lombardy Region. The City of Cremona has chosen to decline the regional action I’d like you to hear it like me. […]

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The Venice Glass Study Center

The Venetian Glass Archive, established in 2012, which is based on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, was recently moved to the recently restored 16th-century Sala Messina, located in the Cypress Cloister next to the exhibition aera “Le Stanze del vetro,” which has been the scene of important exhibitions for years. The Glass Study Center […]


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