2014 promises to be a good year for Italian art abroad. As we want our readers to be able to enjoy Italian art and culture even when not in Italy, we will continue monitoring important exhibitions opening abroad and write about them on ITALY Magazine.
We start by taking a look at some major exhibitions taking place in New York and London over the next few months.
New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens today with an exhibition dedicated to Piero della Francesca, “Personal Encounters,” centered on his devotional paintings. The four works on view have never before been brought together: Saint Jerome and a Donor from the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice; Madonna and Child with two Angels (the Senigallia Madonna) from the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; Saint Jerome in a Landscape from the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; and Madonna and Child from a private collection in Delaware.
Starting February 21, the Guggenheim will host the highly anticipated multi-disciplinary exhibition "Italian Futurism, 1909-1944 : Reconstruction the Universe." It will display more than 300 works created in the first half of last century. It is the first comprehensive overview of Italian Futurism to be presented in the United States; it examines the historical sweep of the movement from its inception with F. T. Marinetti’s Futurist manifesto in 1909 through its demise at the end of World War II.
London
From March 19, the National Gallery will offer visitors the first exhibition in the U.K. entirely dedicated to Paolo Calieri, known as Il Veronese, "Veronese - Magnificence in Renaissance Venice", with fifty works by one of the most influential painters of the Venetian Renaissance. The show will move to Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona in July.
From April 5, the Victoria and Albert Museum will host an exhibition celebrating Italian fashion from the end of the World War II to the present day with "The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014". The show will delve into the history of Made in Italy fashion focusing on those names that have given prestige to its reputation in terms of quality and style.
