Labyrinth of Arnaldo Pomodoro
The Labyrinth: Arnoldo Pomodoro’s one and only environmental installation on which he worked for years, from 1995 to 2011, an artistic evolution. With it, he transformed his creative artistic path into a physical experience made of bronze, fiberglass and copper...
Leonardo’s “Sala delle asse” restored
An exceptional witness to the presence of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) at the Sforza court, the “Sala delle Asse” is one of the most illustrious rooms of the castle. Located on the ground floor under the north-east “falconer” tower, the room...
Literary tour of Milan: Manzoni’s The Betrothed
“Let the reader immagine the courtyard of the plague hospital, populated by sixteen thousand plague victims; that completely crowded space, with huts and hovels, with carriages, with people; those interminable perspectives of porticoes, on the left and on the...
Day trip to the Oltrepò pavese area: in search of beauty
In the Val di Nizza, passing through scenes of mountains, forests and large meadows, the thousand-year old Hermitage of Sant’Alberto di Butrio is reached. Founded by this saint at the beginning of the 11th century, it is made up of buildings dedicated to both...
Trip to historic homes, precious collections and luscious gardens in the Garda area
At Lonato, an antique village in the rocky hills extending southward from Garda Lake in the territory of Brescia, there is the fifteenth century “House of the Chief Magistrate” (Podestà). Having become the residence of Senater Ugo da Como (1869-1941) in...
Etiquette at the time of Leonardo da Vinci (in Italian)
The Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum celebrate Leonardo da Vinci proposing an evening that is well-suited to a noble house like the Bagatti Valsecchi: etiquette and good table manners of the sixteenth century. Not everyone knows, in fact, that at the court of...
Villa Ghirlanda Silva and MUFOCO (in Italian)
Villa Ghirlanda Silva is one of the noble villas of the 17th century present in Cinisello Balsamo. It was a “pleasure villa”, a classic suburban home that the nobles of the day used to build outside the city for sojourns and vacations. The southern wing of...
FuturDome + aperitif with music
Futurdome is a project of museum/housing unique in Italy. It was born of the rennovation of a historic mansion in the “Liberty” style – as Milanese call their city’s own particular kind of Art Nouveau. The mansion had been used for meeting at...
Complex of Sant’Eustorgio
Tradition tells us that Milan’s conversion to Christianity began with St. Barnabus from what is now the church of Sant’Eustorgio. The complex is also renowned for the presence (today, only partial) of relics held to be of the Three Magi, which made the...
Open Care (in Italian)
Founded in 2003, Open Care is a European company that offers integrated services for the conservation, management and highlighting of art works and collections. In fact, it’s Open Care that is taking care of the restauration of the Bagatti Valsecchi...
Banksy, with the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
Banksy, an English artist and writer whose real identity is still unknown, is considered one of the most important exponents of contemporary street art. His works often are tinged with satire and treat universal themes, such as politics, culture and ethics. Just like...
Traces that talk about us: calligraphy at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
A chat about calligraphy, organized by the Friends of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum together with ACI (the Italian calligraphy association), will be an interesting chance to explore this theme so close in spirit to the museum’s digital exhibit, “Sign here,...
Trip to Vicenza (in Italian)
The masterpieces of the great 18th century of Venetian art, patrimony of the Pushkin Museum of Moscow, make a special appearance in Italy in the exhibit, The Triumph of Color. From Tiepolo to Canaletto and Guardi. Vicenza and the Masterpieces of the Pushkin Museum of...
Pablo Picasso @ Palazzo Reale, Milan (in Italian)
Fascinated more by feelings than by form, Picasso found in beastliness and mythology themes that fit his aesthetic. Among his recurring reference points remains the strangeness of hybrid beings (fauns, centaurs, minotaurs) intimately lacerated between humanity and...
Romanticism
It’s the first exhibit dedicated to Italy’s contribution to Romanticism, which changed the sensibility and imagination of the occidental world in the first half of the 19th century. More than 200 works by the most important Romantic artists have been...
Paul Klee @ MUDEC, Milan (in Italian)
The Paul Klee exhibit at MUDEC presents the work of this great German artist in a wholly new light: the primitivism and ‘return to origins’ that characterized Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. In a world in which modernity seemed to become ever...
Trip to Florence (in Italian)
The National Museum of the Bargello is Florence’s sculpture museum. Its collection of Renaissance statues is considered among the most important in the whole world: masterpieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Ghiberti, Cellini, Giambologna, Ammannati and other...
Milano and Cinema (in Italian)
If in people’s minds the Italian cities traditionally associated with the world of cinema are Rome (for Cinecittà) and Venice (for the Biennale), Milan’s crucial role in experimenting with this 7th form of art and spreading it outside of Italy’s...
Carlo Carrà at Milan’s Palazzo Reale (in Italian)
Thirty years after the last show dedicated to Carrà at Milan’s Palazzo Reale, the new show covers his entire artistic journey through his most significant works: from his divisionist attempts and great masterpieces sealing his fame as one of the principal...