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OPENING TIMES

From 8th to 16th February 2025
From Monday to Wednesday 3.00 am – 7.00 pm
From Thursday to Sunday 10.30 am – 7.00 pm

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TICKETS

Tickets can only be purchased at the cash desk:

• Entire € 15,00

• Reduced ticket€ 12,00:disabled and military personnel, registered members MEF (Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari)

• Ticket holders Arte Fiera 2025

• Free Entry: Non-self-sufficient disabled people with companion, BolognaFiere spa card with companion, Fima card with companion, AAI card with companion, Friends of the Estensi Galleries card, Rotary Club Modena card, AEFI card, Modenafiere card with companion, Children from 0 to 14 years free entry

dove siamo

WHERE WE ARE

ModenaFiere srl

Exhibition Center ModenaFiere
Viale Virgilio 90 – 41123 Modena
tel +39 059 848380
fax +39 059 848790

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OPENING TIMES

From 10th to 18th February 2025
From Monday to Wednesday 3.00 am – 7.00 pm
From Thursday to Sunday 10.30 am – 7.00 pm

Tickets price € 15 on sale at ModenaFiere

Reduced access price € 12 for:
• Invalids and soldiers
• MEF member
• FAI cards

dove siamo

WHERE WE ARE

ModenaFiere srl

Exhibition Center ModenaFiere
Viale Virgilio 90 – 41123 Modena
tel +39 059 848380
fax +39 059 848790

Free entry for the categories below:
• AAI
• FIMA
• AEFI
• Bolognafiere passes
• Modenafiere passes
• Rotary club Modena
• Friends of the Estensi Galleries
• 100% non-self-sufficient disabled people with companion
• Police

Phone

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE EVENT ``MODENAFIERE``

phone +39 059 848380
e-mail: info@modenantiquaria.it

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TICKETS

HOW TO GET TO MODENAFIERE

By car:
Exit at the Modena Nord toll booth of the Autostrada del Sole, at the intersection with the Brennero highway. The exhibition center can also be reached from the North and South ring roads of Modena.

By train:
Travel with ITALO and benefit from special fares in 1st Class (the discount is applied to the Flex fare, Low Cost economy promotional fares are excluded).
Discounts cannot be combined with other offers or promotions.
Tickets must concern travel to/from Bologna or Modena.
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Urban transport lines:
The exhibition center can be reached by bus no. 9 of the urban transport line (Fiera stop, near the entrance). For further information: www.setaweb.it

By plane:
The exhibition center is only 20 minutes by car from Bologna’s Guglielmo Marconi airport, from which the shuttle service to Modena is also active. For more information www.aerbus.it
Flight information: www.bologna-airport.it
Furthermore, the exhibition center is 45 minutes from Verona Catullo airport and one hour and 15 minutes from Milan Linate airport

MODENANTIQUARIA 38th ANTIQUE SHOW

The treasure chest of Beauty reveals its secrets and treasures at ModenaFiere.
A sought-after destination and meeting point for art collectors, designers, Experts in search of masterpieces for large international collections or museums and lovers of art and refinement.

PROJECTS AND LANDSCAPES BETWEEN CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY
31st EDITION

Petra is renewed, in a new format dedicated to the outdoors, which combines the past and the present, the ancient and the modern, the classic and the contemporary, between city and countryside.

Petra becomes the exhibition dedicated to landscape design between classic and contemporary.

ITALIAN MASTERPIECES FROM THE 13TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY, IV EDITION

Modenantiquaria presents the second edition of Sculptura new thematic space dedicated to Sculpture which consolidates the ambition to become an annual event for all collectors and enthusiasts. In recent years, sculpture has awakened an exceptional market interest: it is therefore the project that was missing, a suitable place to learn about new trends, authors, proposals, and quotations.

NEWS

"Madonna con Bambino" in polychrome and gilded stucco, by Longari Arte Milano, shines in all its beauty at Sculptura 2025 at ModenaFiere until Sunday 16 February

This sweet “Madonna con Bambino” in stucco descends from a very successful model that dates back to the beginning of the 15th century in Florence.

The archetype, or one of those that may have constituted the typological matrix
for this work, is identified in a beautiful half-length figure of the Madonna with Child from the typology of the Episcopal Seminary of Fiesole, today exhibited at the Bandini Museum.

On the paternity of this model the critics are divided between those who attribute it to Lorenzo Ghiberti or to Filippo Brunelleschi in his younger years. Today they tend to consider it as a work of art by the Florentine master Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and goldsmith, famous for the doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence.

The example exhibited here, although repaired in its structure and color in the modern era, is of notable quality and has the particularity of bearing two coats of arms on the base, only one of which could be identified in the arms of the illustrious Florentine family of Capponi Vettori, one of the most important families in Florence.

Marco Momoli, CEO of ModenaFiere, for Modenantiquaria 2025

38 years of Modenantiquaria, for us the most important event of the year, the most prestigious, the one with the longest tradition and it is therefore an honor to host it in our neighborhood.

It is the event that the entire antiques world in Italy is waiting for; there are 100 of the most important galleries in Italy with works of great value that are in our pavilions for nine days and await collectors, art enthusiasts, from paintings to furniture, carpets and jewellery!

For us it is the highlight of the year, it is the moment in which the attention of all the media throughout Italy is focused on us and our neighborhood and we are obviously very, very proud of this.

It is a challenge that engages us to the hilt every year because obviously we feel under scrutiny every time, but we hope that as always this year too will be an event of great success and great interest.

Modenantiquaria awaits you at ModenaFiere until February 16.

Modenantiquaria and the Animalier paintings in R.V. Art Gallery Studio by Valeria Ricci: "painting a beautiful horse completes the figure of a gentleman"

R.V. Art Gallery Studio by Valeria Ricci, for Modenantiquaria 2025, presents the original painting in the Animalier genre with an equestrian theme – Sporting Art “Fox Hunting” by George Wright.

The work depicts a scene linked to one of the traditional equestrian sports
most widespread and practiced throughout Europe: Fox Hunting.

A favorite hobby of English high society, it soon involved many enthusiasts around the world, revealing itself to be a mirror on many aspects of the social history of the time.

Hunting remains the first among the ancestral themes linked to survival and gave birth to some equine breeds which evolved from agricultural work to obtain sporting subjects.

Since the times when the aristocracy dedicated itself to hunting and racing thoroughbreds, the demand in artistic world of portraits and themed works allowed the growth of an important number of artists who dedicated themselves to the animalier genre and specifically created Sporting Art. This belief spread in the most exclusive clubs: “portraying a beautiful horse completes the figure of a gentleman“.
Usually the portraits were intended for sports horses who had distinguished themselves for their merits in racing and continued their activity as breeders, in this case with the spread of some disciplines such as Fox Hunting, the subject is “a precise moment” during the hunt: we see the pack of fox hounds calm, while they remain close to the riders in red jackets, probably the Master with the top hat and the two Huntsmen wearing black velvet caps like the rest of the participants, except for the riders who had to follow an even stricter dress code. rigid.

R.V. Art Gallery Studio by Valeria Ricci awaits you in Modenantiquaria until February 16th!

GEORGE WRIGHT
Fox Hunting
Oil on canvas, early twentieth century

Precious LIVE shots at Modenantiquaria 2025

A great Lavinia Fontana dominates in Milani Antichità, at Modenantiquaria 2025, surrounded by superb and incomparable masterpieces.

Precious LIVE shots for you!

We are waiting for you until February 16th at ModenaFiere!

Timetable:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Tickets:
Tickets can only be purchased at the cash desk:
• Full price €15.00
• Reduced €12.00: disabled and military personnel, MEF members (Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari)
• Arte Fiera 2025 ticket holders
• Free entry: Non-self-sufficient disabled people with companion, BolognaFiere spa card with companion, Fima card with companion, AAI card with companion, Friends of the Estensi Galleries card, Rotary Club Modena card, AEFI card, ModenaFiere card with companion, Children from 0 to 14 years free entry

Beauties and worries of a time suspended between ancient and modern: Boldini, the "Painter of elegance" in Enrico Gallerie d'Arte

Giovanni Boldini, the painter of the Belle Époque who was able to conquer high society throughout Europe thanks to his extraordinary skills as a portraitist, was especially sought after by ladies.

Boldini brought luxuries and voluptuousness, beauties and worries of a time suspended between ancient and modern into art.

Ethereal girls, fascinating fémme fatales, ladies in evening dresses look out from his paintings among silks and organzas, velvets and taffetas: it is no coincidence that in 1931 Vogue defined him as “the painter of elegance”.

But Boldini also had another quality, rarer and more ineffable: the ability to transfer the psychology and changing emotions of the models, which he defined as “fragile icons”, onto the canvas.

Enrico Gallerie d’Arte awaits you with incredible masterpieces at Modenantiquaria 2025 until February 16.

GIOVANNI BOLDINI
The Baroness de Gunzburg, c. 1900-1905
Oil on canvas

Petra XXXI Edition, a hymn to nature, pure emotion!

“Petra. Projects and landscapes between classic and contemporary” until Saturday 16!

Masterpieces full of charm and history for your garden or terrace, for you who love style always and everywhere!

Timetable:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

From Ettore Sottsass to Gio Ponti and Lucio Fontana: great Design at Modenantiquaria 2025 by Galleria Robertaebasta

From Ettore Sottsass to Gio Ponti and Lucio Fontana: great Design at Modenantiquaria 2025 by Galleria Robertaebasta

Robertaebasta awaits you in Modenantiquaria until February 16.

Timetable:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Tickets
Tickets can only be purchased at the cash desk:
• Full price €15.00
• Reduced €12.00: disabled and military personnel, MEF members (Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari)
• Arte Fiera 2025 ticket holders
• Free entry: Non-self-sufficient disabled people with companion, BolognaFiere spa card with companion, Fima card with companion, AAI card with companion, Friends of the Estensi Galleries card, Rotary Club Modena card, AEFI card, ModenaFiere card with companion, Children from 0 to 14 years free entry

Luciano Minguzzi: dynamism of forms and poetic abstraction in Galleria d’Arte del Caminetto at Sculptura 2025

Minguzzi is perhaps the artist who best combines the local artistic tradition with modern European expressionist and cubist trends.

Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna under the guidance of Giorgio Morandi, Ercole Drei and Roberto Longhi, he studied the Bolognese and Florentine sculptors of the early Renaissance and the modern Medardo Rosso, Arturo Martini, Marino Marini and Giacomo Manzù who offered him a strong boost of inspiration.

His studies, combined with a stay in Paris which proves to be a fundamental stage in his education, here he will have the opportunity to see the works of the great masters of the past and the main contemporary artists, will lead him to refine his artistic skills and establish himself on the international scene for his expressive and narrative qualities, characterized by dynamism of forms and, sometimes, by the tendency towards poetic abstraction.

Minguzzi’s artistic career, recognized internationally, was studded with prizes and recognitions and his works are preserved in private collections and museums around the world.

Galleria d’Arte del Caminetto awaits you until Sunday 16 February at Sculptura 2025, ModenaFiere.

LUCIANO MINGUZZI
Woman with owl, 1951
Wood, 130 x 68 x 120 cm

Art Talk at Modenantiquaria 2025: LIVE!

Great Personalities of the Art World in:

“ART AND MARKET. Instructions for use” with Bruno Botticelli, President of the Association of Italian Antique Dealers (AAI), Alessandra Di Castro, President of the Apollo Group, Arturo Galansino, Director of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation in Florence, Fabrizio Moretti, General Secretary of the International Antiques Biennial in Florence, Giulio Volpe, Lawyer expert in Art and Cultural Heritage Law.

Moderated by Leonardo Piccinini

Petra XXXI Edition. Timeless masterpieces of unparalleled beauty

Petra XXXI Edition awaits you until February 16th at ModenaFiere!

To furnish your garden or terrace with style, elegance and charm!

Timeless masterpieces of unparalleled beauty await you in Petra “Petra. Projects and landscapes between classic and contemporary“.

Petra: Art and nature blend together!

Timetable:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

38 Editions of Modenantiquaria, a true record

No other ancient art exhibition in Italy boasts such a high number of editions.

The great strength of Modenantiquaria is to have been able to interpret the social and cultural change, both at an Italian and European level, especially in the last decade.

The most renowned Italian and foreign galleries participate in Modenantiquaria, with highly selected objects.

The setting of the exhibition, curated by Ruggero Moncada di Paternò, has become one of the strong points of the event, as has the way in which the antique dealers display objects, furniture and paintings as in a real museum.

We are waiting for you until February 16 at ModenaFiere.

Hours:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Agnes, accused of magic, was condemned to the stake, but the flames split under her body without even touching it: Dominikus Stainhart and "Saint Agnes on the stake" by AliceFineArt at Sculptura 2025

This splendid high relief is in ivory with nimbus, rays and flames in fire-gilt bronze, within an original perspective box in ebonized wood, covered on the inside with ivory slats.

The news about her life and martyrdom are many, often conflicting. According to one of the best-known versions, Agnes decided to consecrate her life to Christ already as a young girl in a difficult historical period, that of the Christian persecution wanted by Diocletian. Conducted to the temple of Vesta, Agnes refused to serve the Roman Gods and was punished by being forced to publicly display her nakedness – a true outrage for such a devout young woman.

One story, many stories

At this point the story splits: one version reports that her hair grew at a dizzying rate to cover her body, while another tells of a young man who was blinded in an attempt to violate his purity (later regaining his sight following Agnes’ forgiveness). The most spectacular version sees her condemned to the stake, where the flames are unable to lick her, dividing her, while her hair grows to protect her body.

In any case, her martyrdom made her one of the most famous saints of the Middle Ages, protector of virgins and hair – and invoked by a multitude of women, from the court lady to the humblest peasant.

AliceFineArt awaits you from 8 to 16 February at Modenantiquaria 2025.

DOMINIKUS STAINHART
Saint Agnes on the stake
1676-1682 approximately
High relief in ivory with nimbus

LIVE shots from Modenantiquaria 2025, which awaits you at ModenaFiere until February 16

Modenantiquaria, sponsored by the Italian Antiques Association and FIMA, is the reference event for those seeking the excellence of high-quality antiques; a unique crossroads where collectors, enthusiasts and art dealers meet in search of precious masterpieces.

The exhibition, now in its XXXVIII edition, is the perfect combination of art, passion and business as well as an exemplary showcase for the most illustrious galleries in the sector which also exhibit unpublished works.

Petra XXXI Edition is underway

Art and nature blend together!

We are waiting for you from today, Saturday 8 February, to the 16th at ModenaFiere!

Event times:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Modenantiquaria 2025 is also great design!