From March 22 to July 20, 2025
A meeting in the name of the Belle Époque and feminine beauty: this is what awaits us next spring at Palazzo dei Diamanti, where the works of Alphonse Mucha will be compared with the paintings of Giovanni Boldini. Both artists achieved success in the vibrant atmosphere of fin de siècle Paris, creating images destined to become icons of an era. From March 22 to July 20, 2025, we will have the opportunity to get to know them better in an unprecedented comparison, conceived in collaboration with the Mucha Foundation and embellished by the masterpieces of the Giovanni Boldini Museum in Ferrara, the largest public collection of works by the Emilian master that will reopen at the renovated Palazzo Massari in 2026. Known throughout the world for his Art Nouveau posters, Mucha was in reality a decidedly multifaceted artist: in addition to being a painter, designer and illustrator, he was a photographer, set designer, interior designer, jewelry creator and packaging designer. His works soon became emblematic of the nascent Art Nouveau, to whose affirmation he contributed by developing an unmistakable and seductive style (called precisely “Le style Mucha”), embodied by works such as Gismonda (1894), the series of The Seasons (1896), Job (1896), Fantasticheria (1897), Médée (1898).
At Palazzo dei Diamanti we will see a significant selection of paintings, drawings and engravings by the master from Ferrara, dedicated to the themes of portraiture and the female figure. Alongside recognized masterpieces such as The Lady in Pink (1916) or Fireworks (c. 1890), the exhibition will present full-length studies of women and single female faces that document the artist’s relationship with the surrounding reality, as well as his ability and readiness to record poses and attitudes: two gifts that allowed him to give vitality and dynamism to his paintings, characterized by that extremely rapid but always masterfully controlled stroke that made Boldini’s style unique.
CONTACTS
Information and Booking Office Ferrara Exhibitions and Museums | tel. 0532 244949
Open every day from 11 to 20, also on August 15th
(The ticket office closes 45 minutes before)
Extraordinary evening openings:
25 and 26 August, 29, 30 September and 1 October last admission at 10.30 pm, exhibition closes at 11.30 pm
Press office
communication.ferrararte@comune.fe.it | tel. 340 4190867
Information and reservations for exhibitions and museums in Ferrara
0532 244949 /// diamanti@comune.fe.it /// www.palazzodiamanti.it
From February 1st to June 8th 2025
The halls of the Estense Castle host one of the most important masters of twentieth-century photography, Art Kane (New York, 1925-1995), on the centenary of his birth and thirty years after his death
His work has been published in famous magazines (Life, Vogue, Esquire) and has deeply influenced photographers of subsequent generations, who have appreciated his free, visionary and innovative approach (for example, his use of color).
The exhibition retraces Kane’s entire creative career through over 100 works organized into sections that delve into all aspects of his multifaceted production: from the genres of portraiture and the nude to fashion and advertising, from his participation in the world of rock, jazz and pop music to his reflection on the social and political themes that inflamed the civil conscience of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, up to his experiments “beyond photography”. A completely new section is dedicated to his most famous shot, Harlem 1958, a collective portrait of the most important jazz musicians of the time.
http://www.castelloestense.it
Contacts – Estense Castle – Largo Castello
tel. 0532 419180
castelloestense@comune.fe.it
10.00-18.00. Last entry 5.15pm. Closed on Tuesday.
Free admission with MyFeCard
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