Tag: Visual Arts

The San Luca Academy of fine Arts

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Palazzo Carpegna, is an historic building, right next to Fontana di Trevi, that is worth a visit for its history and superb collections of works of art.  In the collection you can see Domenichino, Guido Reni, Canova…

Palazzo Carpegna in Rome, Museum and Accademia...

Inside the Palace of 1500, transformed and enlarged by Francesco Borromini, is based, The Accademia  di San Luca, structured into three categories: painting, sculpture and architecture, aimed at promoting the fine arts.

The highest office of the Accademia di San Luca, was represented by a Prince,until 1812, presiding over 180 National and Foreign Academicians.

Domenichino - Portrait of Guido Reni - WGA06402

In short, a melting pot of culture!

From the earliest statutes prescribed that each Academic, at the time the nomination, would leave as gift, a sample of his art.

PALAZZO CARPEGNA;
ACCADEMIA DI SAN LUCA
Piazza dell’Accademia di San Luca 77,  Roma
Monday to Saturday from 10.00 am to 14.00

Arts and extravagance often go together.

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Arts and extravagance often go together.
Not always, sometimes, when the end is only the search of wonder, then, even if the artwork can be interesting, certainly not remain in history.

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory (1931...
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Instead, when the genius is revealed, it remains recognizable, unique and distinguishable.

This was Dali.

An eccentric with a great imagination, known as a painter, but less as a writer, catalytic of the Vanguards currents, illustrator, designer and filmmaker, set designer and passionate about science.

In this exhibition, Italy is the leitmotif of all exhibited works.

A drawing by Salvador Dali.
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Through photographs, letters, drawings, documents, objects you can follow in his travels to Italy, and his artistic collaborations meetings, such as with the filmmaker  Luchino Visconti.

SALVADOR DALI’-The man, the Artist
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome
Monday-Thursday: 9.30-18.30;
Friday Saturday 9:30 to 22:30;
Sunday 9.30-19.30
Tickets: 12 euros 

……………………………………………………………..see you!

COLORS! MOnDriAn Exposition in Rome

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You can not miss the exhibition of Piet Mondrian, at the Monumentale Complesso del Vittoriano.

Are exposed 70 between oil artworks  and drawings, in a process that aims to illustrate the artistic evolution of the famous Netherlands abstract painter.

Mondrian has left his complex reflections on space and on painted surface.
Mondrian, an unconventional artist, after a cubist phase, will begin to fill the famous “grids” of pure colors: Red, blue, yellow. 

Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, Via di San Pietro in Carcere.
tel.+30 066780664
From Monday to thusday, 9.30-19.30
Friday and Saturday 9.30-  23.30
Sunday 9.30- 20.30.
Ticket price: 12 euros