The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy's top art exhibitions: ARICCIA - Palazzo Chigi: the Lemme Collection; 130 Baroque works by the likes of Cavaliere d'Arpino, Borgognone and Ludovico Gimignani, until February 10.
ALESSANDRIA - Palazzo Monferrato: Le Corbusier, Drawings and Sketches; Italy's first look at the lesser-known side of the great architect (1887-1965), from his Purist works of the 1920s to 40s-50s collages and an unseen tapestry; until March 30.
BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: America! Painting Stories from the New World; 250 works by the 19th-century artists who opened the world's eyes to the grandeur of the American landscape and life in the West, including Edwin Church, Frederic Remington and Charles Russell; until May 4.
FLORENCE - Palazzo Pitti: Another Beauty; 40 works by leading 17th-century Florentine painter Francesco Furini; until April 26.
FORLI': Museo San Domenico: 'Guido Cagnacci, Protagonist of The 17th Century Between Caravaggio And Reni', 80 works including 44 Cagnaccis; until June 22. GENOA - Various venues: The Myth of Garibaldi; five shows and dozens of events until March 2.
- Palazzo Bianco: 'From The Cradle To The Altar: Scenes Of Female Life In The Belle Epoque'; until October 10. MILAN - Palazzo Reale: The Art Of Women, 200 works by 110 artists from 16th to 20th centuries including Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Camille Claudel, Vanessa Bell, Tamara De Lempicka, Frida Kahlo; loans from 14 museums including Prado, Louvre, Uffizi, National Museum of Women in the Arts; until March 9.
- Castello Sforzesco: Leonardo's horse studies including model of famed equestrian statue destroyed by French invaders in 1499; plus various editions of his Treatise on Painting; until March 2.
- Galleria del Gruppo Credito Valtellinese, Stelline Refectory: Last Last Suppers; Warhol's 1986 homage and other works inspired by the Leonardo masterpiece in the Santa Maria delle Grazie church across the street; until February 16.
- Fondazione Mazzotta: Andy Warhol-Joseph Beuys, 30 Warhol works, 40 by Beuys, all inspired by 1980 Campania earthquake; until March 30.
- same venue: The Seventies, A Long Decade in the Short Century; installations on words like Body, Conflict and Demo and symbols like Aldo Moro and Pasolini, plus a wide-ranging look at '70s culture; until March 30.
NAPLES - San Gennaro Museum: 700 years of offerings to Naples' patron saint from popes, monarchs and emperors (including Napoleon) to build a collection some say is worth more than Britain's crown jewels; until January 31.
- Capodimonte Museum: Homage to Capodimonte, From Caravaggio to Picasso; 70 masterpieces from private and public galleries in Italy and abroad, including Rubens, Velazquez, de Chirico, Bacon and Basquiat, marking the first 50 years of the famous Neapolitan museum; until January 20.
ROME - Quirinale Place: 'Nostoi' (Ancient Greek for 'returns'); 67 Etruscan, Greek and Roman antiquities looted from tombs and recovered in landmark deals with leading US museums; until March 2.
- Palazzo Massimo: Rosso Pompeiano, 108 paintings and three reconstructed rooms from the golden age of Pompeii; until March 30.
- Scuderie del Quirinale: Pop Art 1956-1968; Italy's first major retrospective on the movement, 90 works by 50 artists including Blake, Rauschenberg, Wesselmann, Lichtenstein and Warhol - as well as Italy's Rotella, Schifano and Ceroli; until January 27.
- Museo del Corso: The Forbidden City; more than 300 works illustrating the reign of the cultured Emperor Qianlong who enlarged his imperial quarters into an exquisite domain; also featuring paintings by Jesuit monk and court painter Giuseppe Castiglione; until March 20.
- Colosseum: In Scaena, 70 ancient Roman theatrical pieces illustrating 900 years of the Roman stage including comic and tragic masks, bronze statuettes, mosaics and terracotta vases; until February 18.
- Villa Borghese: 50 works by Antonio Canova including 16 large marble pieces; the Borghese's own celebrated Pauline Bonaparte sculpture are flanked by an array of masterpieces including The Three Graces from the Hermitage, the Reclining Naiad from New York's Metropolitan Museum, The Sleeping Nymph from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Love and Psyche from the Louvre; until February 3.
- Palazzo Barberini: Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Paintings; 30 paintings and drawings and a single sculpture which is closely linked to the Baroque artist's personal life; until January 20.
- Vittoriano Complex: Paul Gauguin. Artist of Myth and Dreams; the first solo exhibit Rome has devoted to the French post-Impressionist. 150 paintings on loan from the world's top museums; until February 3.
- same venue: Gianni Agnelli, An Extraordinary Life, 250 photos plus film footage and a documentary on great industrialist's love for art and sport; until January 30, when it moves to Turin's Mole Antonelliana from February 12 to March 16, and later to Milan's Palazzo della Ragione.
- same venue: Oriana Fallaci, manuscripts, memorabilia, unpublished writings by controversial journalist who died in September 2006; until January 30.
- same venue: Gregory Crewdson, 53 snaps by celebrity photographer; until March 2.
TRAPANI - Museo Pepoli: The Idea of the Divine in Caravaggio, 14 masterpieces including one recently discovered by Sir Denis Mahon; until March 14.
TRIESTE - Salone degli Incanti, ex-Pescheria: Ettore Sottsass, 170 pieces personally selected by recently deceased designer; until March 6.
VENICE - Museo Correr: Heavenly Spheres, Earthly Spheres; 142 works in first-ever show on planetary and terrestrial globes fashioned between 16th and 19th centuries, including Italian cartographer Livio Sanudo's rare 1550 mounted model of world, until recently thought lost; until February 29.
