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12/05/2011 9:23 am

1512-2012: il restauro della Madonna del Molino per il suo cinquecentenario

Jacopo Manni da Soraggio, pievano di Barga dal 1487 al 1537, annotò nel suo ricco memoriale, oggi custodito presso l´archivio parrocchiale di San Cristoforo che “a dì 5 septembre 1512 una certa imagine antiqua dipinta in tavola che era qui a Bargha al molino di S. Christofano si vidde sudare...

10/07/2011 4:07 pm

The Walls of Barga – exhibition by Keane

Barga, its fondest promoters love to say, is a “classic example of a Tuscan hilltown.” But what exactly defines the classic appearance of Barga – or for that matter, Tuscany? The answer, says an exhibition in the entrance hall of Palazzo Pancrazi, home of Barga’s municipal government, is not...

10/04/2011 11:06 am

Exhibition by Ennio Lizzi

The artist Ennio Lizzi is in Barga this week with a short exhibition of some of his recent work on show in the Galleria Comunale. Ennio is more well known for his delicate sculptures in Carrara marble but for the Barga exhibition is showing for the first time some of his two-dimensional work based on...

06/29/2011 10:35 am

Dal Maghreb a Barga

Dal Maghreb a Barga. Questo il titolo dell’interessante mostra di dipinti che l’artista Salvatore Magazzini inaugurerà a Barga martedì 5 luglio (ore 21.00). L’appuntamento è presso il Museo Le Stanze della Memoria (Via di Mezzo, 70 – Barga) che ospiterà la mostra fino al 20 luglio. Prologo...

06/09/2011 7:13 pm

Painting in one of the hidden places of Barga

It’s one of those wonderful hidden places that are just sitting in Barga waiting to be discovered – the altana, the covered roof terrace on the top floor of Casa Cordati in Barga Vecchia. From there you can admire not only the panoramic vista of the valley and a picturesque...

01/07/2011 5:51 pm

Bella Tuscany: From Field Sketch to Finished Work

American painting legend Thomas Cole honed much of his skill during extended visits to Europe, especially to architectural and scenic sites in Italy, and four local artists have followed his lead and inspiration. Now returned from their overseas jaunt, Mara Lehmann, of Haines Falls, Michelle Moran,...

09/03/2010 5:46 pm

Ivan Boccherini – Il laboratorio Gnostico

Questo Laboratorio non e’ che una piccola espressione del Vero Laboratorio che e’ un essere umano quale io sono. L’uomo e’ infatti il Laboratorio dove si sta preparando qualcosa che supera l’uomo stesso…cosi’ come nell’animale si andava preparando l’uomo e nella pianta l’animale...

05/11/2010 12:16 am

Scottish painting school in Barga

In 2008 the Prestonpans Community Centre in Scotland was host to an exhibition entitled “Barga”. The ongoing twinning between the city of Barga and East Lothian in Scotland which had so far involved mainly politicians and schoolchildren (article here) took another step forward that year when...

05/02/2010 1:30 am

Artists and Writers Retreat at Casa Cordati in September

This is the year you promised you’d do it—learn to paint. Or write that book that’s deep inside you trying to get out. No pressure, but the year is almost half over, so if you need assistance keeping that promise to yourself, help is on the way. This September, Barga plays host to the first-ever...

02/25/2010 3:33 pm

Richard Clare painting now finished

Back in June 2008 we published an article about the artist Richard Clare in which we wrote that he was working in what had to be probably the smallest studio in Barga, at only 7 metres long and not even two metres wide … in effect, it was a corridor. Actually if you stood in the middle with outstretched...

12/14/2009 10:45 pm

The Mutande of Barga are back on view

After a gap of almost 5 years since they were painted, the “Mutande of Barga” will be once more in public view and maybe this time they won’t cause quite such a scandal as the last time they aired. The Mutande of Barga - The Knickers of Barga, are a series of large oil paintings...

09/18/2009 7:03 pm

Lucia Pedri exhibition

An exhibition of finely detailed allegorical paintings by Lucia Pedri opened at the Galleria Comunale in Barga Vecchia this afternoon. The artist herself arrived a full 30 minutes late, keeping the photographers and officials from the Comune waiting outside – none of which mattered once the door...

07/05/2009 6:00 pm

Riccardo Pieri exhibition

Riccardo Pieri is known in the city as a classical musician but every year he also dons another hat and puts up an exhibition of his paintings. As he explained at the opening of his latest show in the Memory Museum in Barga Vecchia this afternoon – he still thinks of himself as primary a musician...

06/06/2009 9:51 pm

John Hunt exhibition

A great exhibition on in Lucca but for only two short days. With luck it will come up the valley to Barga some time this summer. In the meantime enjoy the images that we have of some of John Hunt’s latest work. The painter from Nevada was here in Barga last year during April and created a big impression...

05/12/2009 10:59 am

Driffield Art Club in Barga

Last week, Barga Vecchia’s narrow alleyways and sunny piazzas became the painting locations for members of the Driffield Art Club, UK – a group of artists from East Yorkshire (Peter and Eilish Compton, Mimi Claughton, Kay Jones, Mary Medforth and Jean Balarkas), who were on an art course run...

07/29/2008 11:31 pm

Exhibitions by Antonio Cipoli and Ulla Kankainen

Two exhibitions this month that almost past unobserved under the radar for many people. It was not the quality of the work that was in question but more the space that they were exhibited in. People tended to just walk past because the paintings were hung up in unfamiliar territory maybe ? Anyway using...

07/14/2008 8:52 pm

Alba Calamari – Oliviano Lunardi exhibition

Recent paintings by the Barga artist Alba Calamari are on display this week in the gallery at Via di Mezzo 34 Barga Vecchia. Most of the walls of the gallery are taken up by two large panoramic paintings of Barga from Alba plus some smaller tiny jewel-like paintings featuring some of the smaller comunes...