This weekend's exhibitions, from Toulouse-Lautrec to Appiani and Léger

(by Marzia Apice) The looks inside the art of Appiani, Toulouse-Lautrec and Léger, but also the story of the history of some of the most important historic brands of our country Country: These are the main exhibitions this week. FLORENCE - A journey to Paris at the end of the 19th century with "Toulouse-Lautrec. A Journey to Paris during the Belle Époque", exhibition set up at the Museo degli Innocenti from 27th to 22nd September February and edited by Jürgen Doppelstein. Exposure yes consists of over 170 works by the French artist, coming from Hamburg and Alby, which will be accompanied by furnishings, artefacts and period materials, works by other great contemporary artists. The media, engraving, photography, illustrated publishing, cinematography, television documentaries, graphics commercial advertising in over 60 works that interpret the complex pictorial narrative created by the Buonarroti in the Vatican: from September 24th to January 7th he is in program the exhibition "Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. An icon multimedia", promoted and hosted by the Casa Foundation Buonarroti, in collaboration with the Vatican Museums and the Region Tuscany, which offers the public an original reading of the Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, among the most famous cycles pictorial works in the history of art. MILAN - From September 23rd to January 11th, Palazzo Reale hosts "Appiani. Neoclassicism in Milan," edited by Francesco Leone, Fernando Mazzocca, and Domenico Piraina. Through works coming from Italian and international collections, the project finally pays homage to Andrea Appiani (Milan, 1754 - 1817) investigating the refined artistic production and identity intellectual of the first painter of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. In the new headquarters of Zurich Italy, transformed for the occasion in an art space, the retrospective "Eternal Elegance - The Timeless Photography" by Gian Paolo Barbieri curated by the 29 Arts in Progress gallery and scheduled from 25 September to January 15th. Along the way, some of the most beautiful shots iconic of the great photographer who passed away in 2024, from fashion editorials to portraits of legendary figures like Audrey Hepburn, Vivienne Westwood, Tree Allen, alongside some works unpublished works made between the 1960s and the 2000s. CASTELFRANCO VENETO - The imaginary dialogue between the photographs by Olivo Barbieri and paintings by Giorgione in the "Other Storms" exhibition, from September 26th to November 2nd at The Giorgione House Museum in Castelfranco Veneto. Preview 32 works created as part of the photographic research "Other Tempeste", which focuses on the transformation of the landscape Veneto rereading it through the interpretation of Barbieri and Giorgione's visual legacy, promoted by Omne - Observatory Mobile North East. TURIN - The exhibition "Fernand Léger! Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Keith Haring" arrives at the Venaria Reale from September 27th to February 1st, curated by Anne Dopffer, Julie Guttierez and Rébecca François. Over 32 works by Léger are compared with European and American avant-garde artists active since the 1950s Sixty to date, especially with the New Realists group who appropriate the everyday objects of society of consumption and the aesthetics of the road. ROME - Two exhibitions at the Accademia di San Luca opening on the 26th September: "Daniele Puppi. Eh, lampu!", edited by Marco Tirelli, former president of the Academy, presents until December 6th four video-sound installations, three of which are unpublished, which invite the viewer to enter a new and alienating spatial-sensorial dimension. Until October 25th it is instead "The Wounds of Rome. Poets and artists reread the history of the city", edited by Spazio Taverna and Andrea Cortellessa, a tribute to the donation of the works by of the artists involved (Elisabetta Benassi, Giulio Bensasson, Silvia Giambrone, Rä di Martino, Chromatic Number, Lulù Nuti, Luigi Ontani, Pietro Ruffo, Gabriele Silli, Marco Tirelli) at the National Academy of San Luca. VENICE - It's titled "Identitalia. The Iconic Italian Brands", the exhibition set up from 27 September to 15 February at M9 Museum of the 20th Century in Venice Mestre, promoted by Ministry of Business and Made in Italy, in collaboration with Unioncamere and the Association of Historic Italian Brands. Curated by by Carlo Martino and Francesco Zurlo, the exhibition tells some of the most important historic Italian brands through audiovisual documents, original drawings, representative pieces, photographs, historical documents and advertising posters.