Exhibitions
-AOSTA - Centro Saint-Benin: Giorgio de Chirico, The Labyrinth of Dreams and Ideas; 65 works including 40 oil paintings; until September 30.
-COMO -
Villa Olmo: The Brueghel Dynasty; until July 29.
-CORTONA - Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca di Cortona (MAEC): 40 masterpieces of Etruscan art from Louvre, never before seen in Italy; until July 3.
-FLORENCE - 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.
-Galleria dell'Accademia: Art Returns Art; contemporary masters including Bacon, Klein, Burri, Kounellis, Picasso and Warhol; until November 4.
- 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.
- Musei di San Domenico: Adolfo Wildt, Soul and Forms Between Michelangelo and Klimt; until June 17.
MILAN --Museo Diocesano: 'The Eyes of Caravaggio', formative years from Venice to Milan with works y Lotto, Tintoretto, Titian the young artist would have admired; until July 3.
-OTRANTO - Castello Aragonese: Andy Warhol, I Want To Be A Machine; 50 works, until September 30.
-PERUGIA - Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria: Luca Signorelli, 66 works in biggest show ever on Tuscan Renaissance master, featuring loans from Italy and abroad; until August 26.
-REGGIO EMILIA - city centre: 150 huge Italian flags marking 150th anniversary of Italian unity; until June 2.
ROME - Palazzo Barberini: permanent exhibition of ancient art back on show after long restoration; also at Galleria Corsini, Villa Farnesina Chigi and Orto Botanico.
-Scuderie del Qurinale: Tintoretto, 50 works; until June 10.
- Ara Pacis: Russian Avante-garde - Malevic, Kandinskij, Chagall, Rodchenko, Tatlin and the others; until September 2.
-Palatine Hill: Augustus's House on view for first time in 25 years.
-Musei Capitolini: 'Lux in Arcana' - The Vatican Secret Archive Reveals Itself; 100 original documents, preserved for 400 years in the popes' archives, leave the confines of the Vatican walls for the first time: conclaves, heresies, popes and emperors, Crusades, excommunications, ciphered letters, manuscripts, codices, ancient parchments; till September 2012.
- 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.
- 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.
-VENICE -
- 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.
- Palazzo Grimani: Sketches of Venice by Canaletto; until July 1.
- Ca' Foscari: 'William Congdon in Venice (1948-1960): An American View'; until July 8. - 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.
