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Exhibitions & Museums28/10/2026

Petrini at the Züst, 2026–2027: sharpening the eye for Ticino painting

A monographic exhibition helps collectors compare different works under one artist’s name, rather than reducing a career to a single image. The…

Exhibitions & Museums28/10/2026

Vincenzo Vela in Ligornetto: why a plaster model deserves attention

Before a sculpture, material immediately attracts attention: marble, bronze, plaster. Yet a hierarchy based only on substance can obscure an object’s history.…

Exhibitions & Museums28/10/2026

Mendrisio’s Trasparenti: when light becomes part of painting

We usually see a painting through light falling on its surface. Mendrisio’s Trasparenti suggest a different condition: an image intended to transmit…

Insights28/10/2026

Antique frames: documenting them before valuing or selling a painting

A frame deserves its own record: dimensions, construction, decoration and known restoration to document before a painting is valued.

Exhibitions & Museums28/10/2026

Villa Carlotta on Lake Como: collecting, sculpture and the meaning of a replica

Villa Carlotta’s garden encourages a way of looking shaped by distance and changing viewpoints. Inside, collecting adds another dimension: works also reveal…

Exhibitions & Museums28/10/2026

Villa Fogazzaro Roi in Valsolda: when objects tell the story of a home

A room preserves more than a collection of furniture. Paintings, books, photographs and small objects describe habits, relationships and choices. Villa Fogazzaro…

Insights28/10/2026

Antonio Rinaldi: from Tremona to Lombardy, looking closely at nineteenth-century painting

In La polenta ai grotti di Tremona, figures gather around an everyday moment. A pale wall and deep shadow organise the space;…

Exhibitions & Museums28/10/2026

Morbio Inferiore: understanding Baroque painting, stucco and devotion

At Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Morbio Inferiore, the eye encounters more than paintings. It moves between architecture, frames, stucco and images…

Exhibitions & Museums28/10/2026

The Chiesa Rossa at Castel San Pietro: images and memory in the Mendrisiotto

A red façade, a mountain skyline and a compact building make San Pietro a recognisable image of the Mendrisiotto. That familiarity invites…

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