The following is a city-by-city calendar of some of Italy's top art exhibitions .
BOLOGNA - Museo Civico Archeologico: Annibale Carracci: this major exhibition spans the artist's development from his youth in Bologna to his later years in Rome. The show showcases 160 works by Carracci (1560-1609), including 70 of his best-known paintings; the exhibit wraps up with a specially produced documentary about his famous frescoes in Rome's Palazzo Farnese and Bologna's Fava, Magnani and Sampieri palazzos; until January 7 .
BOLZANO - Archaeological Museum: Chachapoyan Mummies; 12 mummies left behind by South America's mysterious and now extinct 'Cloud People' are on display ahead of scientific studies in Europe. The mummies, found 10 years ago in a cave 5,000 metres up an Andean mountain, are on show at the same museum which has become famous for hosting Oetzi, Europe's oldest natural mummy. The remains are much more recent than Oetzi because the Chachapoyan people flourished for only 700 years, dying out during the 16th century; until November 14 .
CASTIGLIONCELLO (Livorno) - Castello Pasquini: Boldini, Helleu, Sem - The Protagonists And Myths Of The Belle Epoque .
Paris's glittering high society at the turn of the last century is the focus of a new exhibit, exploring the work of three artists who came to exemplify the Belle Epoque. The show features some 70 pieces by Giovanni Boldini, an Italian artist who moved to Paris at the age of 30, and his two close friends, Paul Cesar Helleu and Georges Goursat, known as Sem; until November 12 .
FERRARA - Palazzo dei Diamanti: André Derain; the exhibition features 90 works covering the entire career of French artist André Derain (1880-1954); until January 7 .
FLORENCE - Uffizi Gallery: The Mind of Leonardo, The Universal Genius at Work; the show features numerous paintings and drawings as well as a series of faithful models of the most innovative machines conceived by the Renaissance master; until January 7 .
- The Dutch Institute for Art History: Botticelli, Verrocchio and Beyond. Italian Drawings of the 15th Century from the Royal Collections of Dresden; drawings by Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Filippino Lippi are on show alongside a host of other names from 15th-century Italy .
The 47 designs on show are part of a collection built up by Saxony princes in the 1700s and 1800s; until November 5 .
- Casa Buonarroti: 20 paintings and numerous sketches by Baroque painter Fabrizio Boschi; until November 13 .
MANTUA - Mantua, Padua and Verona celebrate Andrea Mantegna celebrations: shows are being staged in the three northern Italian cities where the Renaissance artist produced most of his work. They have been timed to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the artist's death. The shows explore his life and work, documenting the development of his career and the circles he moved in. Each of the parallel events, which run until the start of 2007, will focus on a different aspect of Mantegna's achievements, with an emphasis on the masterpieces he produced in the respective cities .
- Andrea Mantegna's House: Leon Battista Alberti; more than 100 designs, manuscripts, models and original architectural decorative components have been brought together for this major show marking the 600th anniversary of the artist's birth. The show, which will focus on Alberti's theories on architecture and his accomplishments as a practitioner of the art, runs until January 14 .
MILAN - Ambrosiana: Titian's Supper at Emmaus; one of the most famous paintings by Titian is back in Italy for the first time in nearly four centuries. Supper At Emmaus, usually on display at the Louvre, is on loan to the Ambrosiana as part of a three-painting exhibit focusing on the Resurrection of Christ. The two other works on display are Noli Me Tangere by Bernardini Luini and Marco Basaiti's Risen Christ; until November 30 .
NAPLES - National Archaeological Museum: Egyptomania; the show, which runs until February 28, examines the influence Egypt has had on Western culture since ancient times. It features a number of archaeological finds that have never been shown in public before - both ancient Egyptian originals and subsequent Greek and Roman 'copies' .
PAVIA - Castello Visconteo: Dada; Italy celebrates the 90th anniversary of the founding of Dadaism with a major retrospective on the artistic and cultural movement; more than 250 works will be featured, mainly by the movement's founders but also by numerous contemporary avant-garde artists who are indebted to Dadaism; until December 17 .
ROME - Scuderie del Quirinale: China, The Birth of an Empire; terracotta warriors and burial garments embroidered with jade and golden threads will be among the star attractions of a major exhibition on Chinese art. The show features 350 artefacts, some of which have never left China and covering more than ten centuries of Chinese imperial history; the terracotta statues are from the 'army' of life-sized warriors, horses and carts found near the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of a united China. The show lasts until January 28 .
- Complesso Vittoriano: Matisse, Bonnard: this major new show focuses on the personal and artistic friendship between great French painters. It features 130 paintings and 100 sketches from the world's top museums; the show runs until the end of the year .
ROVERETO - MART Museum of Modern Art: Schiele, Klimt, Kokoschka And Their Viennese Friends; the show charts the development of the great Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele. The painter, a controversial figure in his brief lifetime (1890-1918) who was thrown out of art school and later convicted of obscenity, is spotlighted amid a collection of works by his precursors and contemporaries - some of them never before seen in Italy. The show runs until January 8 .
