Vinitaly

Vinitaly is the world's biggest wine exhibition and every year it brings to town several thousands of people from every country. There's a pleasant buzz throughout the city centre: tomorrow the fair will officially begin... read more on Vinitaly's web site.

Times mix

Mix of styles and ages here. From the left: the medieval walls, the Gran Guardia (built between 1818 and 1853, in the last decades of the the austrian domination) and the back of Palazzo Barbieri, built after the second W.W.

Theme day: WAITING

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Lining up for the "Corot and the Modern Art" exhibition.

Palazzo della Gran Guardia, sunday afternoon.

"Corot and the Modern Art" Exhibition

I visited the "Corot and the Modern Art" yesterday at the Palazzo della Granguardia.

I was promptly informed that I couldn't take pictures of the paintings...so I had to make do with the yet beautiful hall. The title of the exhibition and some of the paintings were projected on the back wall, creating a spectacular view.

"...A great master of painting working at the heart of nineteenth-century France was closely tied to seventeenth-century European tradition and natralism, but also turned toward the birth of Impressionism and the experiences of the first avantgardes of the twentieth century"

Read more here.