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ROME (ANSA) - The following is a city-by-city calendar of some of Italy's top art exhibitions.

BARI - Castello Svevo: Ancient Icons of Saint Nicholas; The show features eight icons on loan from the Monastery of St Catherine, located at the foot of Mt. Sinai, where the high altitude and unusual conditions have kept the works in remarkable condition. Created between the 7th and the 14th century, the paintings are the oldest surviving representations of Bari's patron saint; till May 6. BRESCIA - Santa Giulia Museum: Mondrian; this exhibition is the first-ever Italian retrospective of the Dutch artist's work. It gathers some 80 masterpieces; until March 25.

- Santa Giulia Museum: Turner and the Impressionists; the show aims to trace the development of the Impressionist movement. It features 285 masterpieces from 95 museums, including London's Tate Gallery and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam; until March 25.

FORLI' - San Domenico Museum: Silvestro Lega; the show spotlights an important collection of work by one of the leading lights of Italy's 19th century Macchiaioli movement.

Over 100 of Lega's paintings have been brought together, including many which have never been displayed before; until June 27.

MILAN - Triennale Museum: Hans Hartung; the show gathers over 200 paintings by Hartung (1904-1989) and 50 of his photographs, as well as sketches, preparatory works and archive material; until March 27.

- International Photography Centre: Henri Cartier-Bresson; the show brings together a collection of 300 photographs focusing on the first stage of the French photographer's career, which continued until the 1970s; until the end of March.

- Palazzo Reale: Umberto Boccioni; the show on one of the Futurist movement's most famous artists gathers 70 paintings, drawings and sculptures; until February 25.

- Palazzo Reale: Nefer-Woman In Ancient Egypt; the exhibition, which features 50 previously unseen artefacts from Turin's famed Egyptology Museum, shows why ancient Egypt's women were far ahead of their contemporaries. On show for the first time are papyri showing advanced gynecological knowledge and advice on all aspects of childbearing - including some of the world's first pregnancy tests; until April 9.

- Palazzo Reale: Tamara de Lempicka retrospective; the exhibition features 70 works by the unconventional Polish artist, who both shocked and captivated European high society between the wars. In addition to charting the development of the artist's career, the show also partially recreates the first ever exhibit devoted solely to de Lempicka's work, which was also held in Milan in 1925; until February 18. NAPLES - National Archaeological Museum: Egyptomania; the show examines the influence Egypt has had on Western culture since ancient times. It spotlights a number of archaeological finds that have never been shown in public - both ancient Egyptian originals and subsequent Greek and Roman copies; until February 28.

PADUA - Palazzo Zabarella: Giorgio de Chirico; this retrospective brings together over 100 paintings, many of which on loan from abroad. According to the curators, the show aims to illustrate the complexity and contradictions of de Chirico's career over 60 years, rather than merely focusing on his earlier, more famous, metaphysical paintings; until May 27.

ROME - Colosseum: The Iliad; the Trojan war is the focus of a show on Homer's legendary account of the conflict. Achilles, Ulysses, Hector, Paris, Agamemnon and Priam are among the figures depicted in mosaics, frescos, sculptures and vases showing scenes from the Iliad, brought to the ancient Roman amphitheatre from Italy's leading museums. The show runs until February 18.

- Quirinale Palace: Turkey, 7,000 Years of History; this treasure-packed exhibition features 43 precious pieces created by the many peoples that have settled in or conquered the Anatolian peninsular, such as the Hittites, the Greeks, the Romans and the Turks. The works come from Turkey's top museums including Istanbul's Topkapi Palace - the home of the Ottoman sultans between 1465 and 1853 - and Ankara's Museum of Anatolian Civilizations; until March 31.

- Museo del Corso: Piranesi's Rome. The City in the 1700s in the Great Views; the show features around 180 visions from a collection of engravings that shot the artist to fame; until February 25.

- Mazzoniana Wing of Termini Rail Station: Caravaggio's Masterpieces in Private Collections; the highlight of the show is The Calling Of Saints Peter and Andrew, a long-lost painting by the Baroque master. The work, which is part of the British royal family's collection has returned to Italy for the first time in centuries. The show has been extended until March 4. - Chiostro del Bramante: Annibale Carracci; this major exhibit on the Baroque master showcases 160 works, including 70 of his best-known paintings. The show is divided into eight sections and includes self-portraits, altarpieces, mythological scenes and nearly figureless landscapes, a fairly new idea at the time; runs until May 6.

VENICE - Palazzo Grassi: Picasso, La Joie de Vivre 1945-1948. The show spotlights Pablo Picasso's rediscovery of the joys of life and his fresh artistic vein after WWII. Many of the 250 works come from the municipal museum of Antibes, where the painter lived during this period with his new muse Francoise Gilot; until March 11.

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