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Diplomatic Network
20 February 2020
Belo Horizonte: first exhibition of Botticelli works in Brazil

There is great expectation in Belo Horizonte for the exhibition “Botticelli e il suo tempo” (Botticelli and his time), which will be inaugurated on May 5th. The exhibition will bring, for the first time in Brazil, 14 works by the Renaissance Master from eleven Italian museums, including the Uffizi, and private collections (Venice, Turin, Florence, […]

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Diplomatic Network
18 February 2020
Tirana: Mario Airò’s project Modelling water on display

The lines of Castelli ceramics shapes the natural motif of water and its flow, in an environmental installation that cites the theme of the fountain. The project ‘Modelling water’, by the Italian artist Mario Airò, will be exhibited in Tirana from 27th February, thanks to the commitment of the Italian Cultural Institute. ‘Modelling water’ was […]

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Events
18 February 2020
First performance of Lucia di Lammermoor Croatian National Theatre

Forty-five years after its last performance in Zagreb, Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor returned on Friday, February 14 at the Croatian National Theatre, directed by Maestro Pierluigi Pizzi and conducting the Zagreb Opera by Marcello Mottadelli. The evening, co-organized by the Embassy of Italy and the Superintendent of the Croatian National Theatre, was a tremendous […]

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Diplomatic Network
17 February 2020
London: parade of stars to remember Zeffirelli

The great Maggie Smith, but also Jeremy Irons, Robert Powel and many other important Shakespearean actors joined the invitation of the Italian Ambassador in London, Raffaele Trombetta, who organized an evening to honour the memory of Franco Zeffirelli.  Since the 1960s, it was London that consecrated the international success of the Florentine master, the magnificent […]

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Events
13 February 2020
Farnesina Collection: artists meet visitors

  The usual appointment on the last Friday of the month with the Farnesina Collection is enriched this month by a new initiative. On February 28th, the guided tour of the outstanding contemporary art collection will be preceded by a meeting with the authors of one of the last works acquired.                                      Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana […]

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Diplomatic Network
13 February 2020
Turin and Giugiaro guests of honor at Madrid Design Festival

Turin is the guest of honour of the Madrid Design Festival in the Spanish capital until February 20, 2020. The only Italian representative among the “UNESCO creative cities for design” brings to this vital appointment its history of design and creative innovation, technological innovation for mobility and automotive. And it does so with a series […]

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Diplomatic Network
13 February 2020
From Fabriano to Tunis, “ La Carta tra arte e consevazione” (Paper between art and consevation)

The main objective of the exhibition “La Carta tra arte e conservazione”, opening today at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie, is promoting the image of the Marche Region abroad with one of its best-known excellence, the “Fabriano paper”. The exhibition, which will remain open until 22 February, is the result of a collaboration between various […]

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Diplomatic Network
12 February 2020
The Italians of Pere Lachaise, a project to remember them

“The Italy of Pere Lachaise. Extraordinary lives of the Italians of France and the French of Italy”, a project that intertwines memory, culture, lives and two countries, Italy and France, united by centuries-old ties. The project brings together the stories of 61 Italians or French of Italian origin buried at Pere Lachaise, the famous monumental […]

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Diplomatic Network
11 February 2020
Brussels: a comic strip to tell the story of Italian emigration

A comic strip to tell children about a chapter of Italian immigration. ‘An Important Story. 70 years of Italian immigration in Belgium and more’ is the title of the work, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and realised by the Italian-Belgian designer Antonio Cossu, retracing the years of Italian immigration from 1946 to present […]

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Diplomatic Network
10 February 2020
London: cinema Made in Italy festival

The usual Made in Italy film festival returns to London. The Lumière cinema in South Kensington, curated by the Istituto Luce-Cinecittà in Rome and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, will offer a programme that includes recently produced films as well as film classics. It begins with IF ONLY (Magari) by […]

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Diplomatic Network
10 February 2020
Thessaloniki: Fine Notte Exhibition of the Italian sculptor Finotti

It opened last February 7th in Thessaloniki, at the presence of the Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, a great exhibition of the Italian sculptor Novello Finotti. The exhibition (“Fine Notte. Το τέλος της νύχτας”) hosted by the Teloglion Foundation and organized as part of the “Tempo Forte Italia Ελλάδα 2020” initiative of the Italian Embassy […]

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Diplomatic Network
5 February 2020
Myanmar: the great music of Italy comes to Yangon

The “2020 Cultural Season”, promoted and organised by the Italian Embassy in Yangon, was inaugurated on 31 January with a concert entitled “When the piano meets the oboe”. This initiative is part of a series of events designed to present the Burmese public with a rich and diversified panorama of Italian music.  The Maestros Alberto […]

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