Painted Cortona: Twentieth-Century Art on Display at the MAEC

On Friday, 26 June 2026, at 5:00 p.m., an exhibition dedicated to the leading figures of twentieth-century and contemporary Cortona painting will open in Cortona.

The exhibition, with free admission, will remain open until 31 August in the ground-floor rooms of the MAEC, the Museum of the Etruscan Academy and the City of Cortona. Promoted by the Municipality of Cortona, the Etruscan Academy and the MAEC, the exhibition pays tribute to the artists who have helped enhance and preserve the city’s rich cultural tradition.

The exhibition brings together works by eighteen painters, some deceased and others still active, who from the 1970s onwards have contributed to Cortona’s artistic and cultural life. Many of them are connected to the experience of the Club Gino Severini, founded by Evaristo Baracchi, an important reference point for local creativity.

Works by Fabio Aretini, Evaristo Baracchi, Roberto Borgni, Valerio Bucaletti, Nicola Caldarone, Renato Carrai, Jole Crivelli, Aldo Gallorini, Alessandro Gavilli, Sergio Grilli, Eugenio Lucani, Donatella Marchini, Enzo Olivastri, Franca Podda, Urano Rossi, Franco Sandrelli, Paolo Santucci and Anna Maria Spera will be on display.

The exhibition offers visitors a journey through memory, identity and creativity, presenting the variety of Cortona’s art through different generations, styles and sensibilities.

For those visiting Cortona during the summer, it is an interesting opportunity to discover a lesser-known yet highly significant chapter in the city’s cultural history.