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Exhibition in Rome: the Eternal City at the time of Caravaggio
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 24th, 2011
Roma all’epoca di Caravaggio (“Rome at the time of Caravaggio”): this is the title of the exhibition set in the halls of Palazzo Venezia (Via del Plebiscito, 118) until February 5, 2012 with more than 140 works and objects d’art from churches, museums and international collections that narrate a crucial period for Italian history and art.
And during this exhibition in Rome, will be shown an unpublished work of Caravaggio: it’s the Sant’Agostino (“Saint Augustine”), discovered in Spain, and its attribution to Merisi is the subject of perplexities and heated discussions between the experts of art.
One of the objective of this exhibition in Rome is to reconstruct the world where Caravaggio lived, with particular attention to his companions such as Annibale Caracci, the main exponent of the classicist art from Bologna. And it’s a great occasion also to examine an important historical period of Italy, when five popes succeeded to each other in forty years (approximately from 1595 to 1635).
To reach Palazzo Venezia for this exhibition in Rome dedicated to Caravaggio, get off at Coliseum (“Colosseo”) or Barberini/Fontana di Trevi stops of metro Linea A. And the Atlante Star Hotel, in the heart of the Eternal City, is well connected just with metro Linea A.
Exhibition in Rome: the post-war Japan at Japanese Culture Institute
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 17th, 2011
Metamorphosis is an exhibition in Rome open until January 14, 2012, set in Istituto di cultura giapponese (“Japanese Culture Institute”, in Antonio Gramsci Road) and dedicated to the post-war Japan. One hundred and twenty black-and-white photos recall a very difficult, tragic period: the fall of Japan into barbarism and destruction of the Second World War and its rise as one of the most important economic power of the whole world.
This exhibition in Rome at Japanese Culture Institute is divided into three sections: Le conseguenze della sconfitta (“Consequences of defeat”), Tra tradizione e modernità (“Between tradition and modernity”), Verso un Giappone nuovo (“Towards a new Japan”). In these sections are collected one hundred and twenty black-and-white photos made by eleven famous Japanese photographers and artists such as Ken Domon , Hiroshi Hamaya , Eiko Hosoe and others.
The Japanese Culture Institute is in Antonio Gramsci Road. To get there, take the metro Linea A and get off at Flaminio/Piazza del popolo stop. And to enjoy this exhibition in Rome about post-war Japan, the best accommodation is the four star Hotel Atlante Star, well connected with Linea A of Rome metro.
The photographer Milton Gendel on display in Rome until January 8
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 15th, 2011
Milton Gendel, the famous surrealist photographer, was born in the United States but the Eternal City adopted him since 1949, when his photos narrated the Italian second postwar period. And an exhibition in Rome, set in the halls of Carlo Biliotti Museum (in Viale Fiorello la Guardia) until January 8, offers a retrospective of the works of this photographer and art critic.
This exhibition in Rome dedicated to Milton Gendel is divided into four sections: his beginning in New York near great surrealist artists such as Max Ernst, André Breton e Isamu Nogushi; his experience as a reporter during the war in China; the downright adventure, lived from 1958 to 1962, at Roma-New York Art Foundation; and at last the attendance with Italian and North American artists. In the exhibition are on display eighty photos of Milton Gendel with drawings, paintings and printings made by his friends and artists such as Toti Scialoja, Ettore Colla, Mimmo Rotella and many more.
The Carlo Biliotti Museum is in the centre of the Eternal city: to get there, take the metro Line A and get off at Spanish Steps (Piazza di Spagna) stop. And the 4 star Hotel Atlante Garden, situated in the heart of Rome, is an ideal accommodation to see the exhibition of Milton Gendel.
Rome exhibition: photographer Éric Poitevin on display at Villa Medici
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 10th, 2011
Exhibition in Rome: Éric Poitevin, the famous French photographer, is on display from September 23, 2011 to January 15, 2012 in the suggestive halls of Villa Medici, in Viale Trinità dei Monti n.1. The opening time of the exhibition: from Tuesday to Sunday, 10.45am/1am and 2pm/7pm (the only exception is 9pm on Thursday).
In this photographic exhibition in Rome are on display forty works of Éric Poitevin, from his most famous photos to the recent ones, practically never shown before. After all a tight fil rouge links Poitevin and the Eternal city: the French photographer in the Nineteen Eighties was a student with scholarship just at Academy of France in Rome (Académie de France à Rome), in Villa Medici.
Rome event: the story of homo sapiens at Palazzo delle esposizioni
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 3rd, 2011
An event, an exhibition in Rome that shows the story of homo sapiens: the migration from Ethiopia to Europe started two hundred thousand years ago, the colonization of the whole world. It’s “Homo sapiens. La grande storia della diversità umana” (“Homo sapiens. The great story of human diversity”) set in Palazzo delle esposizioni (via Nazionale 194) from November 11, 2011 to February 12, 2012.
Geneticists, linguists, anthropologists and paleo-anthropologists worked together to realize this exhibition, to make a “fresco” of human race and its evolution, set up in the attractive halls of Palazzo delle esposizioni.
And the result is an interactive, multimedia event in Rome, an exhibition split in six parts: Mal d’Africa, the beginning of human race, about two million years ago; La solitudine è un’invenzione recente, the contact between homo sapiens and other species of homo (mostly Neanderthal); I geni, i popoli, le lingue, the birth of a new homo sapiens, able to use fire and utensils; Tracce di mondi perduti, the nomadic homo sapiens becomes sedentary; Italia, unità nella diversità, the story of homo sapiens in Italy; Tutti parenti, tutti differenti: le radici intrecciate della civiltà (“All related, all different: the linked roots of mankind”).
Palazzo delle esposizioni is reachable with metro Linea A, Barberini-Fontana di Trevi stop. And Atlante star hotel, near Navona Steps and Spanish Square, is an ideal accommodation.
Leonardo Da Vinci in Rome: genius on display in Fiumicino airport
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 1st, 2011
Leonardo Da Vinci on display in Rome is a good chance to see the creations, the machines and the dreams of a genius, an inventor who surprises the whole world with his works and ideas, even if he died almost five hundred years ago.
The exhibition Il genio di Leonardo (“The genius of Leonardo”, set in terminal 1 of Fiumicino airport from now to April 2012) shows the flying machines created by the Florentine inventor: this works derive directly from Leonardo’s projects and they are collected in the same place for the first time.
Near flying machines as ornithopter (the “ancestor” of modern helicopter), the glider and the flying machines with pedals (a sort of bike with wings), this exhibition that Rome dedicates to Leonardo Da Vinci shows a self-portrait found in Basilicata (an Italian region) in 2009: in this painting the Florentine genius paints himself with a long and white beard, a serious look, a hat with a feather and two unexpected blue eyes.
And to see this exhibition of Leonardo Da Vinci, you need an hotel in the centre of Rome and well-connected with metro and public transport as 4 star Hotel Atlante Garden, near Vatican City, Navona Square and Spanish Steps.
Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/aburt
An ancient map of XVI century Mongolia on display in Rome
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - October 27th, 2011
An ancient map of XVI century Mongolia, entirely silk-made and thirty meters long: this archeological treasure in on display in Rome, at Terme di Diocleziano (79 Enrico de Nicola street) from October 21 to February 26. This exhibition is a part of the show “A Oriente. Città, uomini e dei sulla via della seta” (“To the East. Men, cities and gods on the Silk Way”).
This ancient map of Mongolia was made during the Ming dynasty, maybe between 1524 and 1539. And it shows places, colors and fascination of the Silk Way, a very extended, vast region that ran from northwestern China (exactly from province of Gansu) to the Red Sea. A long, thousand-year-old story of men and cities, on display in Rome, just in one map.
This exhibition is set with the contribution of Foreign ministry, Ministry of cultural heritage, Roma capital and Chamber of commerce of Rome. Instead “A Oriente. Città, uomini e dei sulla via della seta” is set by the international biennial exhibition of culture Vie della seta (“Silk Ways”).
And to see this ancient Mongolian map on display at Terme di Diocleziano in Rome, the best place to stay is the 4 star superior Atlante Star Hotel, near Vatican City and St Angel’s Castle.
Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/antmoose
Rome exhibition: Audrey Hepburn at Museum of Ara Pacis
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - October 25th, 2011
The city of Rome dedicates an art exhibition to Audrey Hepburn, called Mostra-omaggio a Audrey Hepburn a sostegno dell’Unicef, organized for the 50° anniversary of the cult-film Breakfast at Tiffany’s: images, videos and personal things of the actress will be on display at Museum of Ara Pacis (lungotevere in Augusta, near via Tomacelli) from October 26 to December 4.
The art exhibition set in Rome retraces the “tree lives” lived by the famous actress in the Eternal City: show-business star, mother and ambassador. Indeed in Rome, when she was 25 years old, Audrey Hepburn played in her most famous films as Roman Holiday, War and peace and The Nun’s Story.
Furthermore an accurate selection of photos (from Photomasi, Kobal Collection, Istituto Luce and Reporters Associati archives) with captions, subtitles, texts and graphics, show an original and uncommon Audrey Hepburn captured in her simply and daily life in Rome. The exhibition is completed by an exclusive video about actress’ life out of scenes and by dresses and accessories used in her films.
The earning of exhibition will be devolved to Unicef.
The opening time: every day except Mondays 9am/7pm (last entrance at 6pm). And to enjoy this art exhibition, chose a hotel in the city centre of Rome and well-connected with metro as 4 stars hotel Atlante Garden.
Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/tom-margie
The Capitoline Museums: Leonardo and Michelangelo Exhibition
Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - October 11th, 2011
From October 27th 2011 until February 19th 2012 in the spaces of the Capitoline Museums of Rome a extraordinary exhibition “Leonardo e Michelangelo. Capolavori della grafica e studi romani” (Leonardo and Michelangelo. Design masterpiece and roman studies), that is a exhibition which puts in comparison two genius of the Italian Renaissance.
The Leonardo and Michelangelo exhibition is divided in mirrors area, just about underline the hostile relationship there was between them. So the Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific studies are opposed to incredible Michelangelo’s painting, the Leonardo personal notes and his roman works are opposed to Michelangelo’s roman project like Sistina’s Chapel. The Capitoline Museums exhibition is closed with the area “After the genius” that is a series of works and paintings realized by their apprentices or by people was inspired by them.
The Capitoline Museums exhibition, Leonardo and Michelangelo, will start from October 27th 2011 until the 19th February 2012 according to the ordinary opening time (Tuesday – Sunday / 9:00 – 20:00).Since we was talking about the Sistina’s Chapel we want suggest this fantastic panoramic restaurant of Rome, so you’ll can enjoy with both Michelangelo’s masterpiece and Italian cousin.
Gunther von Hagens‘ Exhibition in Rome
Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - October 6th, 2011
In this period until February 12sn 2012, in the Officine Farneto spaces there is one of most discussed exhibition of Rome, that is the Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds, the works of Doctor Death. This the exhibition doesn’t suits with who is faint-of-heart.
But, Who is Gunther von Hagens, and why he has this bad name? Von Hagens is a German anthropologist, he invented the Plastination technique, that is the modern taxidermy technique which it counts the synthetic compound polymer as a replacement for organic fluid. This technique allows the separation of internal body parts (bones, muscles, organs) in addition to blocks of decomposition.
So this exhibition of Rome shows 200 organs and organ sections more 20 bodies in positions that refers to important masterpiece or positions that wants come as a shock. So the skull section look like a butterfly, a relax woman holds the child on her lap and a man is hanging up his skin.
You can see the Gunther von Hagens’ Body World until February 12sn in Officine Farneto spaces (Via dei Monti della Farnesina 77), if you are looking a accommodation to see this exhibition we suggest this in Hotel the center of Rome.