“Raoul Dufy, The Painter Of Joy” art exhibit at Rome’s Palazzo Cipolla, October 13th, 2022.

Rome’s central Palazzo Cipolla is currently hosting until February23rd, 2023 the “Raoul Dufy, The Painter Of Joy” art exhibit.

Dufy was a French painter (June 3rd, 1877-March 23rd, 1953) from Le Havre.  In 1905 he was inspired by the work of Impressionist painters Monet and Pissarro and along with his friend Braque also turned to Cézanne. 

The Rome exhibit, which is divided into 13 sections, hostsapproximately 160 works of art by Dufy, including paintings, designs, ceramics and also etchings.  His travels also included visits to Florence, Rome, Naples and Sicily but did not per se paint any works of art that covered these cities, even though he did draw inspiration from the beauty of Sicilian island.

    

Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpieces at Rome’s Palazzo Bonaparte, October 7th, 2022.

Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30th, 1853. On July 29th, 1890 and at the young age of 37 he shot himself in the chest in the fields of Auvers.  

On the eve of the 170th anniversary of his birth, Rome’s central Palazzo Bonaparte (Napoleon’s mother once lived there) will be hosting until March 26th, 2023 an exhibit that includes 50 paintings by the famous artist (whose career only lasted 10 years) from the Kroller-Muller museum of Otterlo.

One of the paintings on hand is Van Gogh’s famous “Self-Portrait”, one of the many that he had painted of himself (one of them was recently discovered at Edinburgh’s National Galleries of Scotland.  After his death, the painting fell into the hands of the widow of Vincent’s brother Theo.  It was eventually purchased by Evelyn St. Croix Fleming who was the mother of Ian, the man who created the world’s most famous secret agent, James Bond).