From Wednesday 15 October 2025 to Tuesday 7 April 2026 the Fondazione Palazzo Blu di Pisa, in collaboration with MondoMostre with the contribution of the Fondazione Pisa, presents the "Belle Époque" curated by Dr. Francesca Dini.
On display works from Italian and international institutions including the Musée d'Orsay and the Louvre, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Uffizi Galleries, the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte as well as private collections for the first time accessible to the public.
The exhibition aims to celebrate the elegance, modernity and charm of fin-de-siècle Paris, also observed through the eyes of Italian artists such as Boldini, De Nittis and Corcos who found inspiration there and became protagonists in the lively European artistic context.
The exhibition is divided into thematic sections that retrace the highlights of that period: from the political upheavals of 1870 to the affirmation of modern Paris. Through mundane portraits by Boldini, Sargent and Helleu, the urban views of De Nittis, the impressionist echoes of Zandomeneghi and the cosmopolitan elegance of Maison Goupil, the exhibition tells a unique era between art, literature, science and costume, which has made Paris the cultural heart of the world.
Image. On the bench at the Bois, Giovanni Boldini (1872, Private Collection)
OPENING HOURS (last admission one hour before closing)
- Monday–Friday: 10 am - 7 pm
- Saturday, Sunday and public holidays: 10 am - 8 pm
TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at Vivaticket: https://www.vivaticket.com/it/ticket/belle-epoque/275199.
From Monday to Friday:
- full price: €15,00
- reduced: €13,00 (visitors over 70, visitors aged 18 to 25, groups of more than 10 people up to a maximum of 25, special agreements, disabled visitors, FAI members, UniCoop Firenze members, Mura di Pisa members, FIAB Pisa members, Amico Blu members, journalists upon presentation of their press card)
- Reduced price for university students: €11.00
- Reduced price for school groups: €4.50
- Educational workshops: €4.50
- Adult Family (Ticket valid for families consisting of 1 or 2 adults + children aged 6 to 17, can also be used in conjunction with the Youth Family ticket): €13.00
- Family young people (valid for families consisting of 1 or 2 adults + children aged 6 to 17, can also be used together with Family adult): €6.00
- Special reduced rate for young people: €6,00
- Open reduced rate “Early bird promo”: €13,00 (until 30 September)
- Open: €18,00
Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays:
- Full price: €16.00
- Reduced price: €13.00 (disabled visitors, journalists upon presentation of ID card)
- Special reduced price for young people: €6.00 (Children aged 6 to 17)
- Educational workshops: €4.50
- Open reduced rate “Early bird promotion”: €13.00 (until 30 September)
- Open: €18.00
- Free admission (children aged 0 to 5, 1 accompanying adult per group, 2 accompanying adults per school group, 1 accompanying adult per disabled person, accredited journalists, tour guides, ICOM members upon presentation of a valid membership card).
Information and bookings for guided tours for groups: gruppi.belleepoque@vivaticket.com
