Category Archives: Western art

Church of Santa Maria in Solario, Santa Giulia museum

The Romanesque chapel of Santa Maria in Solario was built in around the mid-12th century; it is square in plan and the octagonal upper portion has a closed loggia with reused Early Medieval columns and capitals. The facade of the medieval church of Santa Maria in Solario faces onto Via…

Church of Santa Maria in Solario, Santa Giulia museum

North Wing of the Noble Residential Floor, Valentino Castle

While the work for the expansion and architectural renovation of the residence was being carried out under the supervision of Carlo and Amedeo di Castellamonte, following the wish of Cristina of France, the decoration of the two first floor apartments on the Noble Residential Floor progressed. The apartments are identical…

North Wing of the Noble Residential Floor, Valentino Castle

South Wing of the Noble Residential Floor, Valentino Castle

An important stucco and frescoes decoration qualifies the first floor of the Castello del Valentino, noble residential floor and representation floor for the court. The “Salone d’Onore” (Hall of Honour) is at the center of a composition of two symmetrical apartments, originally intended for Cristina di Francia and young Carlo…

South Wing of the Noble Residential Floor, Valentino Castle

Pietro Piffetti, the Cabinetmaker of His Majesty, Madama Palace

Cabinetmaker Pietro Piffetti (Turin 1701–1777), a pivotal figure in the history of furniture and ornaments in Italy, whose inlays in ivory, tortoise, metals and precious woods have brought the production of Piedmont cabinetmaking at the top of eighteenth-century European art. In conjunction with the exhibition on cabinet making at the…

Pietro Piffetti, the Cabinetmaker of His Majesty, Madama Palace

The Baroque Rooms, Madama Palace

On the first floor, inside the baroque rooms where Madame Reali lived, the arts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the picture gallery, the furniture of Piffetti and Prinotto and the sumptuous decorations of the rooms. The monumental staircase of the Juvarra, the archaeological route of the Medieval Court,…

The Baroque Rooms, Madama Palace

The Senate Hall, Madama Palace

The majestic Senate Hall created in 1638 has witnessed crucial historical events for the history of Italy, Europe and their citizens. The large hall on the first floor, formerly owned by the Swiss, is used as a classroom in the Subalpine Senate. The architect Ernesto Melano transforms the space into…

The Senate Hall, Madama Palace

Miniature Portrait Collection, Madama Palace

The Round Cabinet is a small and precious space, created inside the north-west Roman tower, is a key point of the apartment set up in the middle of the century for the first Royal Madame of Savoy, Maria Cristina di France. The dense selection of portraits of the Savoy and…

Miniature Portrait Collection, Madama Palace

Gothic and Renaissance Collection, Madama Palace

On the ground floor, characterized by fifteenth-century rooms, there are paintings, sculptures, miniatures and precious objects from the Gothic-Renaissance period. In the room of the Torre Tesori , one of the fifteenth-century towers of the old castle, you will find some of the most important pieces of this period such…

Gothic and Renaissance Collection, Madama Palace

The Ceramics and Majolica Collection, Madama Palace

The exhibition Italy of the ceramics and majolica, presents an exceptional set of ceramics and majolica produced by the most prestigious Italian manufactures, bringing together the masterpieces from private collections of Palazzo Madama. The exhibition opens in the Camera delle Guardie with a large showcase, which evokes the protagonist furniture…

The Ceramics and Majolica Collection, Madama Palace

Carlo Magno goes to War, Madama Palace

The exhibition Charlemagne goes to war, set up in the Medieval Court of Palazzo Madama, presents for the first time in Italy the extremely rare cycle of medieval paintings of the Castle of Cruet (Val d’Isère, France), a unique testimony of 14th century painting in Savoy. The cycle represents episodes…

Carlo Magno goes to War, Madama Palace

Renoir. From the Musée d’Orsay and Orangerie Collections, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

The City of Turin, the GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin and Skira publisher present a splendid exhibition dedicated to the great French artist, with masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie collections in Paris. The collaboration strongly desired by the Mayor, Piero…

Renoir. From the Musée d’Orsay and Orangerie Collections, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

The 19th century collections. Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin presents itself to the public in a “new guise” through the innovative rearrangement of its permanent collections. The GAM of Turin organize an “impossible” guided tour of the museum’s nineteenth-century collections. The GAM collection with a structural intervention on the building,…

The 19th century collections. Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

Castle of the Mandria, Royal Palace of Venaria

The Castle Village located within the natural park of the Herd was the residence of the Savoy since the 60s of the ‘ nineteenth century, when the first king of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II decided to settle here because of the proximity with the city of Turin that would become…

Castle of the Mandria, Royal Palace of Venaria

Theater of Magnificence, Royal Palace of Venaria

The display titled Theater of Magnificence with a grand walk through the apartments of the Duke and the Duchess of Savoy, the apartments of the King and the Queen, the Great Gallery, the Alfieri Rotunda and the Church of St. Hubert. This was the “ceremonial route” that characterized the 18th…

Theater of Magnificence, Royal Palace of Venaria

The Hall of Diana, Royal Palace of Venaria

The Hall of Diana lies at the heart of the Palace by the same name, where visitors once arrived after crossing the entrance yard and the court of honor. Immediately below are seven of the original twelve huge equestrian portraits of the Dukes of Savoy and their courtiers by various…

The Hall of Diana, Royal Palace of Venaria

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