The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy’s art exhibitions: AREZZO – Palazzo Vescovile: Giorgio Vasari, ‘Santo E’ Bello’; religious works; until December 30.
COMO – Villa Olmo: Boldini and the Belle Epoque, 60 works, until July 24.
CORTONA – Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca di Cortona (MAEC): 40 masterpieces of Etruscan art from Louvre, never before seen in Italy; until July 3.
FLORENCE – Casa Buonarroti: The School of the World; 22 drawings by Michelangelo and Leonardo compared; until August 1.
– Palazzo Strozzi: Picasso, Miro’, Dali’, Young and Angry: The Birth of Modernity; until July 17.
– Uffizi: Sketches by Fra’ Angelico, Botticelli, Mantegna, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo; until June 12.
FORLI’ – Musei Civici di San Domenico: Melozzo da Forli’, 90 works by Renaissance master and contemporaries including Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Perugino, Mantegna and Raphael; until June 12.
GALLARATE – Museo Maga: Alberto Giacometti, The Soul Of The 20th Century; until June 5.
MILAN – Pirelli Tower: ‘Gio’ Ponti: The Fascination of Ceramics’; until July 31.
– Triennale: ‘Gio’ Ponti, Expressions’; 250 works, until July 24.
– Palazzo Reale: Mimmo Paladino, 50 works including 30 large canvases, sculptures and installations; until June 26.
– same venue: bizarre 16th-century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo; works on loan from Louvre, Munich, Madrid, New York, Stockholm and Kunshistorisches Museum in Vienna; until May 22.
– same venue: Impressionist Masterpieces From the Clark Collection; until June 19.
Museo Diocesano: ‘The Eyes of Caravaggio’, formative years from Venice to Milan with works by Lotto, Tintoretto, Titian the young artist would have admired; until July 3.
PAVIA – Castello: Leonardeschi, From Foppa to Giampietrino, 22 works loaned from Hermitage, many of them believed to be by Leonardo until end of 19th century; until July 10.
REGGIO EMILIA – city centre: 150 huge Italian flags marking 150th anniversary of Italian unity; until June 2.
ROME – Museo Fondazione Roma: The Unrepeatable Sixties; from Nouveau Realisme to Pop Art including Manzoni, Rotella, Schifano; until July 31.
– Quirinale: Renaissance madonnas; eight masterpieces; until June 19. – Museo di Roma in Trastevere: World Press Photo 2011; until May 22.
– Casa dell’Architettura: ‘Architecturing Unity’, 18 sketches of monuments telling story of Italian unification; until May 25.
– Palazzo delle Esposizioni: 100 works from Stadel Museum in Frankfurt including Tischbein, Corot, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Redon, Munch, Ernst, Klee, Picasso; until July 17.
– Various sites: itinerary of significant places in Caravaggio’s life and career in Rome; until June 19.
– Vittoriano: ‘At the Roots of National Identity’, 200 works celebrating 150th anniversary of unity; national figures and symbols including Garibaldi, Manzoni, Verdi, Pirandello, Eleonora Duse, Futurism, Carducci, Caruso, Toscanini, Padre Pio, Marconi, Fermi, Neorealism, Fausto Coppi, Toto and Italy national soccer team; until June 2.
– Musei Capitolini: ‘Portraits, The Many Faces Of Power’, 150 Roman heads, busts, statues ranging from early terracotta works to deified images of imperial rulers; until September 25.
– Vittoriano: Tamara de Lempincka, The Queen Of The Modern, 120 works by Art Deco icon; until July 3.
– Scuderie del Quirinale: Lorenzo Lotto, 56 masterpieces by 16th-century Veneto painter, until June 12.
– Colosseum: Nero; until September 18.
– MAXXI: Michelangelo Pistoletto, From One To Many, 100 works, 1956-1974; until August 15.
– Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (GNAM): ‘Dante Gabriele Rossetti-Edward Burne Jones and the Myth of Italy in Victorian England’; 100 works loaned by major international galleries, many for first time in Italy; pre-Raphaelite works and masterpieces by Giotto, Botticelli, Titian, Veronese; until June 12.
– Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza: Caravaggio In Rome; previously unpublished documents and images rewrite artist’s life story; until May 15.
– Palazzo Incontro: Tiziano Terzani, 30 Years of Asia; 100 photographs, some unseen, by late writer and journalist; until May 29.
ROVERETO – MART: Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, 75 works loaned from Musee’ d’Orsay including Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Vuillard, Denis, Courbet; until July 24.
TURIN – Reggia di Venaria: La Bella Italia, celebrating 150th anniversary of Italian unity; 350 works tracing various ex-capital cities including Florence, Turin, Milan, Genoa and Naples as well as Rome; plus art giants like Giotto, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Tiepolo, Canova, Bernini; until September 11.
VATICAN CITY – Vatican Museums, Salone di Raffaele: Faberge’, The Sacred Images; 140 works for the czars including nine Easter eggs; until June 11.
VENICE – Palazzo Grimani: three Old Testament masterpieces by Veronese; until July 24.
– Punto della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation: ‘Praise of Doubt’, 60 works by 20 contemporary giants including Maurizio Cattelan, Jeff Koons, Jeff Bauman, Adel Abdessemed, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Flavin, Thomas Schutte and Charles Ray; until December 31, 2012.
photo: Mario Schifano, ‘Bicycles’
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