Macchiaioli

Events and Exhibitions
Giovanni Fattori Livorno Bicentenario
08/09/2025
Fattori 200: an exhibition, a city, a pictorial revolution

What if I told you that the sea, the land, and the light of Tuscany are about to tell you an extraordinary story? A story of golden fields, faces marked by hard work, spirited horses, and skies that seem endless. This story has a specific name: Giovanni Fattori. This year, 200 years after his birth, […]

Giovanni Fattori, In vedetta. Il muro bianco
21/07/2025
Giovanni Fattori: who was the master of the Macchiaioli who depicted Italy during the Risorgimento?

Do you know who was the painter who revolutionised 19th-century Italian art without ever abandoning his personal artistic quest? If you love plein air painting, landscapes that taste of wind and earth, scenes from real life and history told through sincere brushstrokes, then you must discover the works of Giovanni Fattori, the Tuscan artist who […]

School and Periods
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04/03/2021
Women in Macchaioli’s works: masterpieces and women’s role

WOMEN IN MACCHIAIOLI’S WORKS: THE MASTERPIECES TO KNOW AND WOMEN’S ROLE The success of Macchiaioli’s works depends certainly on beauty of their paintings, but the role played by women was decisive, too. Woman enters Macchiaioli’s paintings in a brand new way, and the success depends also on the strength of some special women. Macchiaioli’s works and […]

School and Periods
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16/06/2016
The Macchiaioli

THE MACCHIAIOLI Macchiaioli. Not a year goes by without an exhibition dedicated to the Macchiaioli or to an artist who was attached somehow to the most important artistic movement in Italy in the 19th century. I think it’s time for me to give a definition of “Macchiaioli”, and I will be waiting for your comments […]

Tickets

Anselm Kiefer, Le Alchimiste, Sophie Brahe (dettaglio) icon-biglietto-disponibile Biglietti disponibili
event 07 Feb 2026 - 27 Sep 2026
The Alchemists by Anselm Kiefer at the Royal Palace
Milan, Palazzo Reale – Sala delle Cariatidi
Giorgio Kienerk, L’enigma umano icon-biglietto-disponibile Biglietti disponibili
event 24 Jan 2026 - 14 Jun 2026
Liberty. Modern Italian art in Brescia
BRESCIA, PALAZZO MARTINENGO
Patti Smith e Robert Mapplethorpe
event 29 Jan 2026 - 17 May 2026
Robert Mapplethorpe. The Forms of Desire in Milan
Impressionismo e oltre mostra Roma icon-biglietto-disponibile Biglietti disponibili
event 16 Jan 2026 - 03 May 2026
Van Gogh, Renoir and Modigliani at the Ara Pacis: the Impressionist dream in Rome
Museo dell'Ara Pacis, Rome

Magazines

van Gogh autoritratti
Impossible encounters: face to face with Vincent van Gogh
Betty Boop
Works in the public domain in 2026: what to rediscover and use
Alice Lotti artist
Shapes, colours and visions in the works of Alice Lotti – ARTIST’S STUDIOS
Jago artist
Interview with Jago: art, vision and the courage to create – STUDI D’ARTISTA

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Museums and galleries

Pistoia Palazzo dei Vescovi ©elabialkowskaoknostudio
The archaeological trail of the Bishops’ Palace in Pistoia
Museo Reina Sofia Madrid
Reina Sofía 2025: 404 new works for a more inclusive and contemporary collection
Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis Barletta
Giuseppe De Nittis Art Gallery: a journey through the elegance of painting
Galleria Borghese
Tales of Light at the Borghese Gallery: an immersive show combining art, history and video mapping
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