Grand Tour Liberty, Art Nouveau returns on butterfly wings

Fly on the wings of butterflies new, seventh, edition of the international week of Liberty that throughout Europe returns to celebrate the current cultural and artistic life of the early twentieth century in its most multiple expressions. From 8th to 14th July the Art Nouveau Week will take place and in Italy will be the Italia Liberty Association to organize the events that will have as a common thread of this new edition the Butterfly. Which stands out in the illustration of the Fan "Putnam Fadeless Dyes-Tints" advertisement from the 1970s Twentieth century painting depicting a green nymph in robes persuasive who uses "Putnam Fadeless Dyes and Tints" to paint the wings of a butterfly with a questioning look. The week offers a schedule of events, including visits guided tours, large tours, exhibitions and conferences, curated by the expert in subject Andrea Speziali who will also lead fourteen meetings, two a day, to also discover unpublished artefacts in style Liberty. Over one hundred more daily guided tour routes of seventy Italian cities that will include access to buildings Liberty style buildings usually closed to the public such as Villa Pottino in Palermo, Villa Magrini in Cesenatico, Villa Serafini in Riccione, Palazzo Pastore in Melfi or Villa Simonini in Lucca and that they will also touch the main monumental cemeteries of Italy, with a series of guided tours dedicated to Liberty and art funeral between the 19th and 20th centuries. Italia Liberty also announces a series of exclusive tours dedicated to Art Nouveau: designed for an audience that loves of art and elegance, will take place between Italy and Spain, with routes that combine culture, architecture and refinement. Sicily stands out in this edition, acting as leader: in addition to guided tours in the city between Catania and Palermo is planning the series of conferences "Modernism in Sicily from Liberty to Art Deco" and, among the various events, they will open the gates of Villa Pottino, those of Villa Ardizzone in Catania and the Liberty House Museum in Chiaramonte Gulfi where Inside you will see works by various authors such as Ernesto Basile, René Lalique, Legras, Carlo Zen and a notable collection of cabinet-making productions.