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On this day in
1791 died Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, prolific and highly influential composer of Classical music.
1870 Alexandre Dumas, writer, died at 68
1906 Otto Preminger, American producer, director, and actor, was born
1911 Alfred Manessier French painter was born
1926 died Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter.
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Ospitando...l'Apollo di Mantova | Archeology, 09 18 2008 - 01 6 2009
Hosting the Apollo of Mantua is the tilte of this exhibition, part of the new "Ospitando..." series that encourages the exchange of artworks between different museums in different citiesm for a limited period. Musei Capitolini in Rome host this marvellous marble sculpture Apollo (II AC) on loan from the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua for a limited time. At the Presso il Palazzo dei Conservatori - Sala degli Arazzi Piazza del Campidoglio Image: Mantova, Palazzo Ducale - Statua in marmo di Apollo (II secolo d.C.)
Musei Capitolini
Piazza del Campidoglio 1 - 00186 Rome, Italy Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 9 am - 8 pm / December 24th and 31st 9 am - 2 pm Closed on Monday Admission: € 6,50 (+ €1,50 exhibition) concessions € 4,50 (+ € 1,50 exhibition) Ticket exhibition: € 4,50 / concessions € 2,50
http://www.museicapitolini.org/it/index_net.htm
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Giovanni Bellini | Art, 09 30 2008 - 01 11 2009
The Scuderie del Quirinale is proud to be able to devote a monographic exhibition to Giovanni Bellini - the first such exhibition since the one held in Venice in 1949 - hosting over 60 paintings that account for some three-fourths of his entire known and certain output of sacred and profane subjects.
Scuderie del Quirinale
Via XXIV Maggio 16, Roma, Italy Hours: Sunday to Thursday 10am to 8 pm Friday to Saturday 10 am - 11 pm Admissions: general € 10 / concessions € 7,50
http://www.scuderiequirinale.it/
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Rovine e rinascite dell'arte in Italia | Archeology, 10 3 2008 - 02 15 2009
The exhibition is divided into six sections, offering a thorough picture of the protection principles exercised by the State and their evolution in time, up to today's important results obtained through diplomacy. Among the works on show, we cite the extraordinary Arringatore from the Archaeological Museum of Florence
Anfiteatro Flavio ( Colosseo)
Piazza del Colosseo - Roma, Italy Hours: depending on the season Admission: € 8 ( also entrance to Palatino )
http://www.archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it/sar2000/Colosseo/colosseo.asp
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Bruno Munari | Art, 10 9 2008 - 02 22 2009
The Musem of the Ara Pacis in Rome is hosting an important exhibition dedicated entirely to versatile Milanese artist: a sculptor, illustrator, graphic artist and industrial designer.
Museo dell'Ara Pacis
Lungotevere in Augusta - Rome, Italy Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 9 am - 7 pm; December 24 and 31, 9am - 2 pm Closed on Monday Admission: € 6,50 / concessions € 3,00
http://www.arapacis.it/
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Italiani a Weimar | Art, 10 11 2008 - 01 18 2009
Giorgio Vasari, Perino del Vaga, the Cavaliere d’Arpino, Annibale Carracci, Guercino, Salvator Rosa, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Giovanni Volpato:major Italians are on a homeward journey. Portraits, landscapes, vedute, capricci, sacral, historical, literary and folk motives for the first time, a selection of 55 drawings belonging to the "Italian" collection of the Duke of Weimar is exhibited in Italy. Image: Jacopo Amigoni (? ca. 1682 -1752), autoritratto
Casa di Goethe
Via del Corso 18 (Piazza del Popolo)- Rome, Italy Hours: daily from 10 am - 6 pm - Closed on Mondays. Closed on 13-15 August 2006 Admissions: 3 € / concessions: 2 €
http://www.casadigoethe.it
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Etruschi - Le antiche metropoli del Lazio | Archeology, 10 20 2008 - 01 6 2009
The exhibition tells the story of the Etruscan civilization in Lazio and the development of its main urban centres: Veii, Cerveteri, Vulci and Tarquinia.
Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Via Nazionale 194, 00184 Rome, Italy Hours: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 am to 8 pm Friday and Saturday from 10 am to 11.30 pm Closed on Monday Admission: general € 12,50 / reduced € 10,00
http://www.palazzoesposizioni.it/
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Bill Viola Visioni Interiori | Video, 10 21 2008 - 01 6 2009
Theexhibition, curated
Website: Bill Viola Visioni Interiori
Image: Ocean Without a Shore, 2007 Production still Photo: Kira Perov Performer: Blake Viola
Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Via Nazionale 194, 00184 Rome, Italy Hours: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 am to 8 pm Friday and Saturday from 10 am to 11.30 pm Closed on Monday Admission: general € 12,50 / reduced € 10,00
http://www.palazzoesposizioni.it/
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Rob Carter | Photography, 10 22 2008 - 11 22 2009
For his first solo exhibition in Italy, Rob Carter presents at Pastificio Cerere Foundation a series of photographs and animations. The production of Rob Carter (born in Worcester, lives and work in Brooklin) is based on the paper examination as a physical object and a image of reality through a audio-visual and photographic medium.
Pastificio Cerere
Via degli Ausoni, 7 - 00185 Rome, Italy Hours: Monday – Friday 3 pm – 7 pm or by appointment.
http://www.pastificiocerere.com
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JULIUS CAESAR man, feats and myth | Archeology, 10 23 2008 - 05 24 2009
The Chiostro del Bramante inaugurates a grand season in its already well-known expository showings. For the first time ever, in the suggestive surroundings attributable to the genius of the great Urbinate architect, a show expressly dedicated to the image of the first absolute protagonist of ancient Rome has been elaborated: G. Julius Caesar (around 100-44 b.c.), the first "dictator", the undisputed artisan of the greatness of the future Roman Empire of which, not by chance, his adopted son Octavianus, first “Augustus Caesar”, would become prince.
Chiostro del Bramante
Via della Pace - 00186 Rome, Italy Hours: daily 10 am - 8 pm Saturday 10 am - 12 am / Sunday 10 am -9.30 pm Closed on Monday
http://www.chiostrodelbramante.it
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Roman School: Artists in Rome between the two wars | Art, 11 1 2008 - 01 11 2009
The exhibition features some 50 works by artists Scipione, Renato Guttuso, Carlo Socrate, Afro Basaledella, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Francesco Trombadori, Mario Mafai, Cipriano Efisio Oppo, Antonietta Raphaël, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Fausto Pirandello and many others.
Musei Villa Torlonia
Via Nomentana 70 - 00161 Rome Italy Hours: From the last sunday in March until the 30th September: 9 am -7 pm; from the 1st March until the last Saturday of March and from the 1st October until the last Saturday of October: 9 am - 5.30 pm; from the last Sunday of October until the 28th February: 9 am -4.30 pm; 24th and 31st December: 9 am - 2 pm Closed on Monday Admissions: Casina delle Civette Full price € 3 concessions € 1,50 Casino Nobile Full price € 4,50 concessions € 2,50 / Cumulative Musei di Villa Torlonia Full price € 6,50 concessions € 3,00
http://www.museivillatorlonia.it
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Da Rembrandt a Vermeer. | Old Masters, 11 11 2008 - 02 15 2009
The exhibition presents some 55 paintings from the golden century of Dutch and Flemish art, depicting scenes of daily life and domestic intimacy representative of the civic values of the 17th-century in Holland. Works by a host of Dutch and Flemish masters including Rembrandt, Rubens and Vermeer. Image: Jan Vermeer (1632 Delft - 1675 Delft) Ragazza col filo di perle, 1662-65 circa olio su tela, 55x45
Museo del Corso
Via del Corso 320, Rome Hours: daily fom 10 am to 8 pm Closed on Monday Admission: general € 7,50 / concessions € 5.00
http://www.museodelcorso.it/
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