Fellini Festival

Bologna - March 15th - July 15th, 2010 www.destinationbologna.com The Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Mambo presents a refined festival devoted to the figure of the extraordinary film director from Romagna who saw Marcello Mastroianni as restless and fascinating alter-ego. The Cineteca di Bologna offers a long appointment schedule: first, the screening of the full retrospect of Fellinian works, supplied with a lot of signed interviews, released in years by Fellini himself. Through a multidisciplinary path, the spectator closely hooks into the Fellini’s world, interfacing movie elements, photographs, tv pictures, works dedicated to the great master of the Italian cinema. B&B Assisi Ottime soluzioni economiche per le vostre vacanze ad Assisi in selezionati bedandbreakfast.

A look in to invisible

Firenze - February 26th - July 18th, 2010 www.dechiricoafirenze.it The event is supported by the Superintendence for the State Museums of Florence - Archive of Metaphysical Art, in Palazzo Pitti. The exhibition presents De Chirico's works, together with artists of the metaphysical period, such as Carra', Magritte and Ernst, Balthus and Morandi. The main theme of metaphysical art is loneliness. People are replaced by mannequins, statues, shadows and mythological creatures. The atmosphere is motionless, timeless, like a continuous dream, an emotionless stage.

Unesco sites in Italy

Tivoli - March 13th - April 18th, 2010 www.beniculturali.it The beautiful Villa d’Este in Tivoli is hosting a photographic exhibition celebrating Italy’s treasures included on the UNESCO world heritage list. It makes a fantastic day trip from Rome to escape the city and see both a wonderful photo exhibition and the Villa d’Este itself. There are 44 Italian sites on the world heritage list, and all are presented in a kind of grand tour of photographs, called: “Il paesaggio descritto”, or the “the landscape described”. From the Dolomites to Sicily, you can see them all in the rooms of the Villa d’Este, Tivoli, less than an hour from Rome.

The Pre-Raphaelites

Ravenna - February 28th - June 6th, 2010 www.museocitta.ra.it The exhibition will cover two main themes: the interest on the part of the Pre-Raphaelites in Italian literature and art (with the exhibition of masterpieces by Beato Angelico, Perugino and others) and their representation of the Italian landscape, with particular emphasis on John Ruskin, writer and art critic, the source of inspiration for a group of artists (Boyce, Inchbold, Brett, Bunney, Randall and Burgess) that visited Italy in that period with the intention of studying nature and documenting the architecture and art for the benefit of the English public that would never have had a chance to visit those places.

Guercino

Bologna - April 21th - March 30th, 2010 www.guercinoexibition.it Thirty youth works by Guercino, so nicknamed because squint, an artist who still proved to be a young talent for the period. Many of the works presented, the frescoes are torn from Casa Pannini at Cento, and Guercino realized that the age of twenty years, in addition to the famous Madonna Della Ghiara, The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine, and Rinaldo Corradino straddle a mule, the Madonna Del Passero and Sibyl.

L'arma per l'Arte - Aspects of the sacred rediscovered

Firenze - 26th November, 2009 - 4th April, 2010 www.polomuseale.firenze.it The exhibition, set up in the Sala Bianca of the Pitti Palace, is devoted in particular to sacred art, and hence to paintings and objects stolen from churches and convents, and sometimes museums, but in all cases works on sacred subjects or objects of liturgical use. The exhibition also represents the opportunity for presenting two important restoration works: on the one hand the polyptych by Sano di Pietro from the chapel of the Convent of San Bernardino in Sinalunga, and the triptych by Mariotto di Nardo from the church of Sant’Angelo in Legnaia.

INCA – Origin and mystery of the sun Empire

Brescia - 4th December, 2009 - 27th June, 2010 www.incabrescia.it The Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia will be exploring Inca secrets in their new exhibition “INCA – Origin and mystery of the sun Empire”, which runs 4 December 2009-27 June 2010. The Santa Giulia Museum is a fascinating museum set in a historic Benedictine convent, and the permanent collection includes relics dating from the prehistoric and Celtic period, with objects including porcelain, carvings, coins and wax seals. The Inca exhibition will focus on the ancient Peruvian culture from the 8th century BC onwards.

Drawings from the Venetian 19th Century

Venezia - December 19th, 2009 - April 11th, 2010 www.museiciviciveneziani.it As part of the program of developing the vast patrimony of its collections, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia is presenting a vast exhibition of these drawings at the Correr, most of which are on display for the very first time, the collection of drawings from the Venetian nineteenth century at the Correr is one of the biggest on the graphic scene of that century. It consists in several hundred sheets of different quality and kinds that – maybe because they have been obscured by the fame of the vast collections of drawings from the eighteenth century – have never received the attention they deserved and were thus considered a ‘lesser’ patrimony’ for years and therefore mainly used as a source of documentation.

Back to Baroque

Napoli - December 12th, 2009 - April 11th, 2010 www.ritornoalbarocco.it It is an initiative that tells the story of the Baroque as a passion for life and as a passion for art. It is an event that involves the city of Naples and its environs in a dense program of exhibitions in six of the city’s museums and numerous other initiatives that encompass art, architecture, music and theatre. But Back to Baroque is intended not only to highlight the gains in knowledge and trends in collecting that were sparked by those three exhibitions, but also to focus attention on the many deeply rooted attitudes and practices that characterized Naples in the Baroque era, with consequences that reverberated through the years that followed and up until recent times.

Physics in Florence in the 19th century

Firenze - November 8th, 2009 - May 9th, 2010 www.imss.fi.it The purpose of the exhibition is to evoke the extraordinary period prior to the Unification of Italy when Florence was one of the European capitals of scientific knowledge. In the first half of the XIX century, technological development and interest for science profoundly influenced Italian and European society, with inedited progress in every field of science, from mathematics to physics, from chemistry to biology. Fuelled by the Enlightenment sensitivity for “useful” science, the Galilean tradition became an instrument of social, economic and cultural progress, and was cultivated thanks to the farsightedness of the Lorraine grand dukes of Tuscany. While Venice is the jewel of the Veneto and its most visited city, northern Italy's Veneto region has a wealth of attractions. From historic cities like Verona and Padua to the natural beauty of Lake Garda and the Dolomite Mountains, there's a lot to see in the Veneto. Use our Best of the Veneto guide to plan your vacation in the Veneto region.