Giovanni Boldini. The seduction of painting is the new impressive exhibition produced by Contemplazioni open from December 2, 2025 to June 2, 2026 at the Cavallerizza in Piazzale Verdi in Lucca.

The exhibition, curated by Tiziano Panconi, boasts the participation of the most prestigious public and private collections - including the Uffizi Galleries and the Giovanni Boldini Museum in Ferrara - and aims to celebrate "the master of Belle Époque portraiture."

A journey of over 100 works that tells the evolution of Boldini's painting through beauty, especially feminine beauty, the subject of a continuous aesthetic search and deep psychological investigation, on which he coined an idealized model of grace. From his beginnings in Florence, when he participated in the Risorgimento climate and the movements of ideological and artistic renewal of the Macchiaioli, to his move to Paris, where he approached the Maison Goupil and then engaged in original and innovative aesthetic investigations, focusing mainly on portraits, until the 1890s when Boldini definitively broke away from the schemes of official portraiture, creating new silhouettes and serpentine and dynamic poses, assumed by seductive and vibrant female bodies, outlined with long and fast brushstrokes, impressed on the canvas like sword thrusts.

In the exhibition, part of Giovanni Boldini's vast body of work is displayed alongside that of contemporary masters, including Odoardo Borrani, Telemaco Signorini, Federico Zandomeneghi, Giuseppe De Nittis, Vincenzo Gemito, Antonio Mancini, Vittorio Matteo Corcos, who were connected to him in various ways, both personally and professionally.