The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy's top art exhibitions: ALESSANDRIA - Palazzo Monferrato: Le Corbusier, Drawings and Sketches; Italy's first look at the lesser-known side of the great architect (1887-1965); until March 30.
BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: America! Painting Stories from the New World; 250 works by the 19th-century artists who celebrated the grandeur of the American landscape and life in the West, including Edwin Church, Frederic Remington and Charles Russell; until May 4.
COMO - Villa Olmo: The Embrace of Vienna, 80 works from the Austrian city's Belvedere Museum including six Klimts and six Schieles; until July 20.
FERRARA - Palazzo dei Diamanti: Joan Miro': The Earth, 80 works in Italy's first retrospective in 25 years; until May 25.
FLORENCE - Palazzo Strozzi: 200 works of the long 'Chinese renaissance' from the Han to Tang dynasties (25-907 AD), many on show for the first time in Europe; until June 8.
- Palazzo Pitti: Another Beauty; 40 works by 17th- century Florentine painter Francesco Furini; to April 26.
- Casa Buonarroti: Michelangelo's Face, 16th-18th century images of an artist who sat for very few portraits; April 22-July 30.
FORLI' - Museo San Domenico: 'Guido Cagnacci, Protagonist of The 17th Century Between Caravaggio And Reni', 80 works including 44 Cagnaccis; until June 22.
GENOA - Palazzo Bianco: 'From The Cradle To The Altar: Scenes Of Female Life In The Belle Epoque'; until October 10.
LUCCA - Italian Comics Museum, Palazzo Guinigi: The American West Seen By The Greatest Italian Comics Artists; biggest-ever such exhibit in Italy, 750 illustrations including 150 previously unseen works by the likes of Hugo Pratt, Dino Battaglia, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Ron Embleton, Sergio Tisselli, Sergio Toppi and Juan Zanotto; until May 25.
MAMIANO DI TRAVERSETOLO (PARMA) - Magnani Rocca Foundation: Andy Warhol - The New Factory, around 140 works tracing Warhol's career from the mid 1950s to the 1980s, until July 6.
MILAN - Palazzo Reale: Francis Bacon, more than 100 works in a foretaste of next year's centenary celebrations; until June 29.
- same venue: Canova At The Court Of The Tsars, Masterpieces From The Hermitage; seven Canovas including famous Three Graces and Winged Venus plus 30 other Italian neoclassical masters from famed St Petersburg museum; until June 2.
- same venue: Giacomo Balla, 200 works from 1900 to 1929 including loans from New Yorks MoMa, Paris's National Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Stuttgart's Staatsgalerie and Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza gallery; until May 18.
- Spazio Forma gallery: Richard Avedon 1946-2004, 250 photos ranging from post-war Italy to Fall of Berlin Wall; until June 8.
- Spazio Obderdan: Noise, A Hole In Silence; 22 avant-garde artists including Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Mircea Cantor and Yoko Ono; until May 25.
- Fondazione Stelline: 70 late works by Mario Sironi; until May 25.
- Fondazione Mazzotta: Andy Warhol-Joseph Beuys, 30 Warhol works, 40 by Beuys, all inspired by 1980 Campania earthquake; until March 30.
- same venue: The Seventies, A Long Decade in the Short Century; installations on words like Body, Conflict and Demo and symbols like Aldo Moro and Pasolini, plus a wide-ranging look at '70s culture; until March 30.
ROME - Palatine Hill: Augustus's House on view for first time in 25 years.
- Vittoriano: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Tradition and Innovation; 150 works from world's major collections; until June 29.
- same venue: Rare and Precious; first look at recently opened Holy Inquisition files; until March 16.
- Scuderie del Quirinale: From Canova to The Fourth Estate, 100 works showcasing often-neglected movements in 19th-century Italian art; until June 10.
- Colosseum: Roman Triumphs; some 100 works including bas-reliefs, sculpted marble slabs, statues, bronzes and coins on loan from Italian and foreign museums, tracing evolution of triumphs from Etruscans to Constantine; until September 14.
- Palazzo Massimo: Rosso Pompeiano, 108 paintings and three reconstructed rooms from the golden age of Pompeii; until March 30.
- Museo del Corso: The Forbidden City; more than 300 works from the reign of the cultured Emperor Qianlong; including paintings by Jesuit monk and court painter Giuseppe Castiglione; until March 20.
- Palazzo Venezia: Sebastiano Del Piombo; first major Italian retrospective of neglected Renaissance artist (1485-1547), a contemporary and colleague of Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian. The exhibit features most of Del Piombo's surviving works; until May 18.
- Palazzo Barberini: 14th-century Rimini master Giovanni Baronzio, one of Giotto's greatest followers, including magnificent and newly restored Corvisieri Reredos; until May 18. - National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM): Lucio Fontana the Sculptor, 70 sculptures, ceramics, drawings from the early 1930s to the late '60s; until May 10.
- same venue: Celebrated heads of Pergamon kings Attalus I and Attalus III, loaned from Berlin, on show for first time in Italy; until March 16.
ROVIGO - Palazzo Roverella: The Belle Epoque, Art In Italy 1880-1915; 110 paintings including Boldini, De Nittis, Zandomeneghi; until July 13.
TURIN - Palazzo Bricherasio: L'Arte della Veduta; 100 works comparing for first time Canaletto with pupil and nephew Bernardo Bellotto; until June 15.
VENICE - Palazzo Grassi: Rome And The Barbarians, The Birth Of A New World: with 1,700 pieces from 24 countries, show offers a comprehensive re-assessment of Rome's relations with invading cultures; until July 20.
- Gallerie dell'Accademia: Late Titian And The Sensuality Of Painting: 28 masterpieces from 1550 until artist's death in 1576 including last work La Pieta', an ex-voto against plague; until April 20.
