Gallerie d’Italia, free entry on Liberation Day. In Naples two masterpieces by Diego Velázquez

The Gallerie d’Italia in Milan, Naples, Turin and Vicenza they propose for Thursday 25 April an opening with free entry and will also be open regularly on Wednesday 1st May. Sunday 5 May, like every first Sunday of the month, free entry for all visitors. Same free opening methods also for the Ivan Bruschi Antiques House Museum in Arezzo. There Gallery of Palazzo degli Alberti in Prato It can be visited every Sunday and on public holidays, always with free admission.
At the Galleries of Italy Of Milan it is possible to immerse yourself in the permanent collection, with itineraries that highlight works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In Naples it is possible to admire the new exhibition Velázquez, “A great sign”. On display are two masterpieces by Diego Velázquez, theImmaculate Conception And Saint John the Evangelist on the island of Patmos, coming from the National Gallery in London. The paintings are flanked by two other works depicting the Immaculate Conception: one by Paolo Finoglio, coming from the Museum of the Franciscan Opera of San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples and the other by Battistello Caracciolo preserved in the church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Roccadaspide , in Cilento.

The same is true in other cities
At the Galleries of Italy Of Milan it is possible to immerse yourself in the permanent collection, with itineraries that highlight works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the plaster bas-reliefs by Antonio Canova, inspired by Homer, Virgil and Plato, owned by the Cariplo Foundation, to nineteenth-century Lombard painting, to the paintings of Umberto Boccioni with the masterpiece “Three women”up to the great path of 20th century construction sitethe project dedicated to the valorization of Intesa Sanpaolo’s collection of 20th and 21st century works, a collection that is of considerable importance in the Italian collecting panorama for the quality and completeness with which it documents the artistic production of the period.
In Turin the exhibition “Cristina Mittermeier. is open. The Great Wisdom” edited by Lauren Johnston and in collaboration with National Geographic. The exhibition, the first retrospective in Europe dedicated to the photographer, displays around 90 photographs and offers an overview of the important research work of Cristina Mittermeier, photographer, marine biologist and activist who, over the years, has documented the beauty of our planet, from landscapes to constantly evolving wildlife, to the different cultures and traditions of the populations who live in symbiosis with nature. The exhibition “She is not old also continues until May 12th. The Sanremo Festival in black and white 1951-1976″ edited by Aldo Grasso. The exhibition presents 85 photographs from the Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto Archive on the Sanremo Festival, the most famous event of Italian song which represents an important chapter not only in the history of music and television but also in the social history of the country.

In Vicenza it is possible to discover the Fall of the rebel angels, the sculptural masterpiece of the eighteenth century Veneto, enhanced within the evocative exhibition “in a new light”. In a newly designed space next to it, the visitor is led to discover the work through new tools such as tactile reproductions (also for use by people with visual disabilities) and an exciting immersive video. The scientific and educational route “Argilla. Stories of encounters”, in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua.

At the Ivan Bruschi Antiques House Museum in Arezzo, which houses the eclectic collection of the illustrious Arezzo creator of the Antiques Fair, it is possible to admire the new exhibition “The free manner. Abstract and informal art in the Intesa Sanpaolo collections”, organized and promoted by Intesa Sanpaolo, the Ivan Bruschi Foundation and the CR Jesi Foundation, in synergy with Gallerie d’Italia. The exhibition, curated by Marco Bazzini, takes into consideration the period between the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the fabulous Sixties in Italy.

At the Gallery of Palazzo degli Alberti in Prato masterpieces by Bellini, Filippo Lippi, Puccio di Simone and a collection of great identity value for the city are on display, such as numerous sixteenth-seventeenth century works from the Florentine area.
The Gallery can be visited every Sunday and on public holidays, always with free admission.