De Chirico Exhibition in Rome’s Modern Art Museum

When in Rome… Giorgio De Chirico in the GNAM

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From November 20th 2008 until January 25th 2009 the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome will host an exhibition dedicated to the influential 20th Century Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico.

The exhibition’s theme is the influence art and artists from the past exerted on De Chirico’s work.

The exhibition, organized by the GNAM together with De Chirico’s widow, opens exactly 30 years after the painter’s death.

About a hundred paintings and drawings can be admired, as well as one large sculpture.

Much of the art on display is normally kept in the “house-museum” near the Spanish Steps, where the Chirico and his wife lived from 1948 until the painter’s death on November 20th, 1978.

Julius Caesar exhibition in Chiostro del Bramante

When in Rome… Chiostro del Bramante – Julius Caesar Exhibition

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This exhibition purports to shed light on the life and legends about the man who turned the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire: Julius Caesar.

Caesar himself claimed to be a diret descendant of the Goddess Venus and her son Aeneas, founder of the city of Rome.

With the aid of paintings, sculptures and other objects on loan from a number of European museums, the exhibition follows the development of the cult of Caesar, who was murdered in 44 B.C. It starts with Renaissance artists and arrives, via the times of Shakespeare, at the gladiator movies of the fifties.

A number of scale models, especially made for the exhibition, are also to be seen.

The exhibition, which lasts until April 5th 2009, takes place in the Chiostro del Bramante (Via della Pace).

Opening hours: from 10am until 8pm (until 9pm on fridays and saturdays). Mondays closed. Admission 10 Euros.

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Rembrandt in Rome

When in Rome… 17th Century Dutch Painting in Museo del Corso

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Until February 15th 2009 the Museo del Corso in Rome (Via del Corso 320) will host an exhibition highlighting 17th century Flemish and Dutch painting, displaying masterpieces by a.o. Rembrandt (a.o. Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels), Vermeer, Frans Hals, Rubens and Anton Van Dyck.

The 55 paintings are on loan from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin and it is the first time they can be admired in Italy.

In those days in Holland a new, wealthy middle class cam into existence and its members liked to have themselves portraited.

The Dutch art of painting during this Golden Age can be characterized by a change from religieus themes to more secular ones as portraits, landscapes and still-lives.

The exhibition is titled: From Rembrandt to Vermeer: Civic Values in 17th Century Flemish and Dutch Painting.

For more information: +39 066893806. The museum is open from 10am till 8pm. Mondays closed. Admission: 9 Euros. From Rome Termini you take metro line A to the stop Spagna or bus 64 to Piazza Venezia.

Jean-Michel Basquiat in Rome until February 1, 2009

When in Rome… Palazzo Ruspoli: Jean-Michel Basquiat

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This exhibition is organized by the Fondazione Memmo in cooperation with the Fundacion Marcelino Botin.

Basquiat was a precursor of the graffitti generation. Hij debuted in New York only just 20 years old, especially thanks to Andy Warhol’s encouragement.

The exhibition, which is titled, “Exorcising Ghosts” , brings 40 of Basquiat’s works together in Rome.

It all takes place in the Palazzo Ruspoli (Via del Corso 418) in the center of  Rome. The opening hours are from 10am until 7.30pm, except on frifays and saturdays when the Palazzo closes one hour later. The Basquiat exhibition can be admired until February 1st, 2009.

Ruins and Rebirth of Art in Italy: Colosseum Exhibition

When in Rome…Exhibitions – Colosseum: Ruins and Rebirth of Italian Art

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This exhibition, inside the Colosseum in Rome, highlights the efforts to protect Italy’s heritage of ancient culture and art.

Already in 1909 a law dealing with the problem of Italian art being sold abroad had come into effect.

More than sixty exhibits have been divided into six sections, starting from the times of Italy’s unification and ending with the most recent attempts to stop the sale of illegal art.

The works, often on loan from foreign museums and art galleries, are also meant to illustrate the various ways in which exchanges between galleries and museums have been encouraged.

The exhibition will last until February 15th, 2009. For more information call +39 (0)639967700.

The Invention of the Imperial Fora. Demolition and Excavations: 1924-1940

When in Rome: Exhibitions – Imperial Fora excavations

 
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Until November 23^rd, more than 60 photographs chosen among the 7 thousand commissioned by the (former) Governorship of Rome visualize the destruction, demolition and especially the excavations of the Imperial Fora in Rome in the twenties and thirties.

There are also a number of paintings to be seen, the most famous of which is Mario Mafai’s “Trajan’s Forum”, which he painted in 1930.

Other artists include Giulio Farnese and Lucia Hoffmann. The exhibition is completed by a selection of fragments of paintings and sculptures from the 16^th and 17^th centuries.

It can all be admired at the Capitoline Museums on the Piazza del Campidoglio (from Termini take bus 64 or bus 40E).

The Museums are opened from 9am until 8pm (closed on Mondays). Entrance to the museum and the exhibition costs 8 Euros, entrance to the exhibition only 4,50 Euros.

Giovanni Bellini exhibition in the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome

When In Rome… Exhibitions: Giovanni Bellini

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Preparation for the exhibition dedicated to the painter Giovanni Bellini in de Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome has taken 3 years.

The exhibition, which starts September 30th, 2008 and ends on New Year’s Day January 1st, 2009, shows the work of a painter who is seen as the embodiment of the moment when Humanism meets Renaissance.

The works of art on display are on loan from famous museums like the Paris Louvre, the Metropolitan and the Washington National Gallery, but also from private collections all over the world.

Bellini, who is a scion of a family of painters, has become more and more important through the centuries, since a lot of paintings that used to be wrongly ascribed to some his contemporaries are now assumed to hav ebeen painted by him. 

The Scuderie del Quirinale are opened from 10am until 8pm (and from 10am until 10.30pm on fridays and saturdays). Admission is 10 Euros (7,50 for those younger than 25). The address is Via XXIV Maggio, 16.

Baroque Portaits in the Villa d’Este outside Rome

When In Tivoli… Villa d’Este Baroque Portraits Exhibition

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Until November 2nd 2008 the Villa d’Este in Tivoli, east of Rome, will host the exhibition “Baroque Portraits”. Most of the works that are to be seen are on loan from art galleries and private collections.

The 40 works show the art of portrait painting in the 17th and 18th centuries, when baroque painting, usually associated with a rich and powerful elite, knew its heyday.

Most of the exhibited portraits are rather unknown and many of them are even being displayed for the first time  in public, even though some of the artists (Il Guercino, Ferdinand Voet, Anton van Dyck) are famous enough.

The exhibition continues through to November 2nd, the Villa d’Este is opened from 8.30am until 18.45pm and admission costs 9 Euro (5,75 Euro for those younger than 18 or older than 65). Closed on Mondays. From the center of Rome Tivoli and the Villa d’Este can be reached by taking the subway to Ponte Mammolo (the last stop but one on line B) and then a bus to Tivoli.

It is possible to get there by train, but that involves travelling to Rome’s second railway station, Tiburtina first. Moreover, Tivoli’s railway station lies on the bottom of a hill, away from the centre, whereas the bus from Ponte Mammolo stops right in themiddle of town, near the Villa d’Este.

In case you don’t fancy taking a day trip from Rome, or you prefer staying in quieter surroundings than what Rome has to offer anyway, you can sleep in Tivoli itself. The following link provides a list of hotels in Tivoli and Bagno di Tivoli (a warm water spring).

The Wolf and the Sphinx at Castel Sant’Angelo

When in Rome… Castel Sant’Angelo Exhibition until November 2008

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A complicated relationship has existed over the centuries between Rome and Egypt.

The exhibition titled the Wolf and the Sphinx, until November 9th 2008 in the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, is an attempt to clarify this tie, not only through sculptures that were robbed from Egypt by the Romans (many of which can still be seen and admired in Rome), but also through paintings from the Rinascimento period (18th century), when the Italians rediscovered the mythological wealth and architectural, scientific and artistic knowledge of the Egyptians in the times of the Pharaohs.

The Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo is opened from 9am until 5pm. Closed on Mondays. From Rome Termini Castel Sant’Angelo can be reached easiest by taking the 40E express bus.