Giovanni Boldini Exhibition In Rome
Dates: 04.03.17 - 16.07.17. Address: Complesso del Vittoriano, Via di San Pietro in Carcere, 00186 Rome, Italy.
The Giovanni Boldini Exhibition takes place at Rome's Complesso del Vittoriano - Ala Brasini in Rome from the 4th March to the 16th July 2017. It is one of the most comprehensive and spectacular retrospectives to be held in recent years. It features the most representative oils and pastels in Boldini's oeuvre and works by other artists who were his contemporaries, as well as a small selection of drawings on paper and engravings. The exhibition comprises about of approximately 160 works, some of which have been rarely seen in public. The show reconstructs step by step the outstanding career of this great Italo-French artist, who was not only one of the protagonists of that exceptional period and the brilliant anticipator of 20th-century modernity, but superbly conveyed and exalted female beauty in his works, revealing the innermost mysterious soul of the noble ladies of the period, whom he regarded as "fragile icons".
Opening times: Monday - Thursday: 9:30am to 7:30pm / Friday and Saturday: 9:30am to 10:00pm / Sundays: 9:30am to 8:30pm / Last entrance is one hour before closing time / Tickets: 14.00 Euros (full price)