Five Summer Mountain Art Exhibitions Across Italy
This summer, Italy's scenic mountain regions are featuring five notable art exhibitions. At Castello Gamba in Valle d'Aosta, the exhibition "Altissimi Colori" explores the works of artists such as Giovanni Testori and Gustave Courbet, running until September 29, 2019. The Associazione Genius Loci is showcasing Flavia Bigi's "Traditur" from July 18 to September 26, 2019. Meanwhile, Calabria's Museo Diocesano offers guided tours of the UNESCO-listed Codex Purpureus Rossanensis. The Gypsotheca e Museo Antonio Canova marks its bicentennial with the exhibition "Un Tempio per l’Eternità" through October 13, 2019, and Forte di Bard is displaying "Mountains by Magnum Photographers" until January 6, 2020.
Key facts
- Castello Gamba exhibition 'Altissimi Colori' runs until September 29, 2019
- Exhibition features Giovanni Testori, Courbet, Guttuso, and Bernd Zimmer
- Traveling exhibition 'Traditur' by Flavia Bigi in nine Ligurian villages
- Codex Purpureus Rossanensis is a UNESCO World Heritage manuscript
- Guided tours in Rossano by 'Insieme per camminare'
- 'Un Tempio per l’Eternità' at Museo Canova from July 11 to October 13, 2019
- Mountains by Magnum Photographers at Forte di Bard until January 6, 2020
- Magnum Photos was founded in 1947 by Cartier-Bresson, Capa, Seymour, and Rodger
Entities
Artists
- Giovanni Testori
- Gustave Courbet
- Renato Guttuso
- Bernd Zimmer
- Flavia Bigi
- Antonio Canova
- Werner Bischof
- Robert Capa
- David Seymour
- George Rodger
- Inge Morath
- Herbert List
- Ferdinando Scianna
- Martin Parr
- Steve McCurry
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Institutions
- Castello Gamba – Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
- Casa Testori
- Soprintendenza per i beni e le attività culturali
- Associazione Genius Loci Floridi Doria Pamphilj
- Trust della famiglia Floridi Doria Pamphilj
- Museo Diocesano (Rossano)
- Insieme per camminare
- Opera Dotazione del Tempio Canoviano di Possagno
- Fondazione Canova onlus
- Comune di Possagno
- Gypsotheca e Museo Antonio Canova
- Magnum Photos
- Forte di Bard
- Unesco
Locations
- Valle d'Aosta
- Italy
- Châtillon
- Crêt-de-Breil
- Aosta
- Alpi
- Appennini liguri
- Stellanello
- Camporosso
- Isolabona
- Dolceacqua
- Finale Ligure
- Montebruno
- San Sebastiano Curone
- Garbagna
- Ottone
- Rossano
- Calabria
- Sila
- Corigliano-Rossano
- Possagno
- Pedemontana del Grappa
- Bard
- Switzerland
- Zermatt
- Matterhorn