We selected seven exhibitions for your return to Italy’s autumn–winter season. From Fra Angelico’s whispered gold in Florence to Orazio Gentileschi’s traveling chiaroscuros in Turin, this is an itinerary for the eye and the palate, this is an itinerary for the eye and the palate.
Expect quiet mornings, long lunches, and galleries that reward a lingering gaze. Choose one city, or let us sketch a private grand tour across autumn light and winter hush.
Florence – Beato Angelico
Palazzo Strozzi & Museo di San Marco, Sept 26, 2025 – Jan 25, 2026
A rare Florentine reunion: altarpieces, predellas, and blues that seem to glow from within. Step from the chapel’s hush of San Marco into the city’s autumn air and notice how the gold still follows you.
Pair the mood with: a slow stroll through cloisters and a mid-day gelato. Info.
Pisa – Belle Époque
Palazzo Blu, Oct 15, 2025 – Apr 7, 2026
Fin-de-siècle Paris on the Arno, posters, elegance, and the sparkle of modern life. The rooms feel like boulevards: graceful, quick, and a touch theatrical.
Pair the mood with: a riverside passeggiata and an espresso. Info.
Turin – Orazio Gentileschi. A Painter on a Journey
Sale Chiablese, Musei Reali, Nov 8, 2025 – Apr 14, 2026
Courtly stops across Europe told in silk and chiaroscuro. Faces bloom out of shadow while fabrics hold their breath, Baroque with a passport.
Pair the mood with: a palace courtyard, a chocolate hazelnut note. Info.
Artwork Location: Staatsgalerie, Stoccarda, Germania
Venice – Pietro Bellotti. Amazement, Reality, Enigma
Gallerie dell’Accademia, Sept 19, 2025 – Jan 18, 2026
A 17th-century gaze that unsettles the familiar. Venice appears not as postcard, but as thought, intimate, reflective, slightly masked.
Pair the mood with: a side canal at noon, a whispering traghetto, and a sketchbook. Info.
Milan – Andrea Appiani. Neoclassicism in Milan
Palazzo Reale, Sept 23, 2025 – Jan 11, 2026
Napoleonic poise rendered in profiles, allegories, and marble-pure calm.
Pair the mood with: galleries tucked behind courtyards and a long lunch. Info.
Brescia – Matthias Stom. A Caravaggesque in Lombard Collections
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Sept 18, 2025 – Feb 15, 2026
Candlelit drama by a Flemish master: flame, darkness, and eyes that know more than they say.
Pair the mood with: evening aperitivo, amber in the glass, and a slow walk through stone streets. Info.
Empoli – Provincia Novecento. Art in Empoli 1925–1960
Antico Ospedale di San Giuseppe, Nov 7, 2025
An elegant survey of Tuscan painters active between 1925 and 1960. Works from public and private collections, some never before shown, trace generational threads, shared roots, and training shaped by an Italian art scene in flux.
Pair the mood with: a detour through the hills, a well-chosen country trattoria, and a ruby-red glass.
