Articles in art… that travels!
China gets exhibit of “The Genres of Painting” from the Uffizi
Based on this news I’d say the Chinese LOVE Italian painting. The exhibit From the Collections of the Uffizi Gallery. The Genres of Painting: Landscape, Still Life & Portrait Paintings opens this week in Changsha at the Hunan Provincial Museum opens November 30th 2010. In Shanghai and Wuhan the traveling show drew 850.000 visitors. Some …
Alessi Objects and Projects, Munich
Alessi: perhaps the most famous brand of Italian design, as well as one of the more accessible (you can own a little piece of modernity for 25 euros).
An exhibit at the International Design Museum in Munich, Alessi Objects and Projects, looks back over the recent decades of Alessi design: the final phase of …
Blue walls: Florence’s Bardini Museum and Isabel Stewart Gardner
When the Bardini Museum reopened last year the most remarkable aspect of the restoration was the return of Stefano Bardini’s blue walls. Bardini, a 19th century art dealer, left his show room and gallery, housed in a deconsecrated church and convent, to the city of Florence in 1922. Perhaps inspired by the contrast of white …
Three free iphone apps for travel in Italy
Sorry Blackberry users, but iphones these days are so popular, even the cat has one. If you’re traveling in Italy with your iphone you can take advantage of these three FREE apps to help you on your way.
1) Pronto Treno: Trenitalia’s iphone app is the best way to access train timetables while on the fly. …
Michelangelo Anatomy as Architecture in Williamsburg, VA
Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture consists of drawings, archival pages, and engravings on loan from the finest collection of Michelangelo drawings and the ancestral home, the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy. The exhibition explores new research in Michelangelo architectural studies, includes digital reconstructions of buildings never before believed to be influenced by Michelangelo, and lectures …
Atlanta: Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius
Name one sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci. Stuck? Me too. Leonardo is the great Renaissance man, the inventor, the draftsman whose wild lines imply motion and cannot be followed, the painter whose sfumato made mysterious madonnas. Hard to imagine those lines rendered in hard bronze.
The exhibition now on display at the HIGH museum of art …
Borghese paintings go to Japan; spark debate
Raphael‘s “Woman with Unicorn” is one of 48 works from Rome’s Borghese Gallery on their way to Japan, where they will stay 6 months at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto and the Metropolitan Musem of Tokyo (who you might think would have an English website).
The complete list of 48 works is not publicly available, but it includes …
The “new” Michelangelo at the Met (NY)
“Michelangelo’s first painting”, the Torment of Saint Anthony, is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York June 16, 2009-September 7, 2009 in the European Paintings Galleries, 2nd floor. It is on loan from the Kimbell Art Museum of Fort Worth (TX), who acquired the painting in July 2008 at a London auction …
A “new” Artemisia: found, restored, on tour
Jane Fortune, Founder and Chair of the Florence Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, has been digging around the storage areas of the Pitti Palace looking for works by female artists. Lucky for us, she tracked down a beautiful David and Bathsheba by Artemisia Gentileschi. Unfortunately, it was in terrible condition, …
David takes 3 weeks off for holiday in Milan
Donatello’s Bronze David is the highlight of Florence’s Bargello Museum.
Recently restored on-site in the museum so as not to remove it from view, it is now in Milan for a short visit on occasion of the trade show “Campionaria delle qualita’ italiane”. There’s a little buzz in the local papers about the appropriateness of this …
Etruscan Bronze Chimaera takes FLR-LAX; display at Getty Villa
July 16, 2009-February 8, 2010: The Getty Villa in Malibu CA is host to an exhibition that centers around an important loan from the Museo Archaeologico di Firenze, the famous Chimaera of Arezzo. The Etruscan bronze (4th c BCE) was discovered just outside Arezzo in 1553 and soon became part of the collection of Cosimo I de’Medici, who displayed …
ArtTrav is a blog about expat life, art, and travel in Italy and Europe. I am Alexandra Korey, a Florence-based art historian turned blogger.
My goal is to help travelers and residents like you experience countries through culture and local living. If it takes geeky, long articles to do that, so be it! 
