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Seven works and six Italian street artists are competing for the world's most beautiful murals. They are part of the ranking of 100 works collected by the "Street Art Cities" platform in 92 cities in 30 countries to democratically elect by online app vote the best mural work created in 2022. And among the roller- and spray-painted facades of Buenos...

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Italian art investigators have exhibited a fresco that survived the destruction of the ancient Roman beach town of Herculaneum in the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius only to be plundered from its ruins and smuggled to the US, among 60 relics returned to home soil. The total value of the works, some of which date back to the first century BC, looted...

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Through February 26. Philadelphia Museum of Art - 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway - Philadelphia, PA. Free with museum admission. Discover transformative works by artist Giuseppe Penone that explore the relationship between human experience and the natural world. River of Forms examines the central role that drawing plays in his practice and how it...

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The train in Giuseppe De Nittis’s 1869 painting “The Train Passes” is there mostly by implication. A thick plume of white smoke or steam suggests the presence of an engine, and a small, dark form on the horizon seems to be its origin. But the bleak landscape of a few, spindly, leafless trees underscores the real subject: a world transformed by tr...

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The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA), New York, opened its doors for the exhibition titled Bruno Munari: The Child Within, for its fall 2022 season. The exhibition, organised in collaboration with Corraini Edizioni, under the patronage of Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York, was curated by Steven Guarnaccia, author, illustrator and an associ...

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Steven Guarnaccia is something of a renaissance man in the art world. Born in Fairfield and now living in Brooklyn, N.Y., Guarnaccia is a graphic designer, illustrator of children’s books, a professor in the department of Illustration at Parsons The New School for Design in New York and a curator. “I grew up in Fairfield and my parents were both s...

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A vibrant array of fauna and flora dance around a gnarled tree trunk as we navigate a paradisiacal scene that borrows from the Bible and art historical references such as Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece Garden of Earthly Delights. Religious and secular imagery mingle, as we’re transported to the Mediterranean with glimpses of urban life hinting at N...

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The trend of immersive art experiences has found its way to Oklahoma, inspiring visitors to experience iconic masterpieces that have been revitalized to capture attention and draw in larger audiences. Sailor & The Dock is hosting an immersive art show, titled “Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition,” which has come to Oklahoma City for a lim...

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Lecture by Rocky Ruggiero. Given at the Flint Institute of Art on December 7, 2022. This presentation will explore the evolution of the Last Supper in Italian art, beginning with early Christian images through to the late Renaissance, including one of the world’s most famous works of art: Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. Dr. Rocky Ruggiero has...

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The long period of the Middle Ages is inscribed between two particularly important dates: 476 A.D., which coincides with the deposition of the last Western Roman emperor - Romulus Augustus - and 1492, the year of the discovery of America. The earliest considerations of this historical period are rooted in and take off from the Renaissance. From the...

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