Renaissance Art along the Danube

Take advantage of your visit to Bratislava any time between December 18, 2009 and March 28, 2010 to visit the Slovak National Gallery’s Esterhazy Palace along the Danube River, which plays host to the Renaissance exhibition, the first in a series of shows examining ‘The History of Slovak Fine Art’ from the 15th to the 20th century. The Renaissance exhibition comprises artworks that originated from this territory or abroad but were related to Slovakia, between the Gothic and Baroque periods.
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Brussels Dream relived in Bratislava

In 1958, the Czechoslovak pavilion at the World Expo in Brussels was an international triumph. Fifty-one years later, artefacts from this extremely successful exhibit for promoting Czechoslovak life-style, culture, design, fashion, craftsmanship and overall ingenuity at the dawn of the Atomic Age can be revisited at the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, in an exhibition that runs through November 15. The exhibition had been presented last year in Prague’s City Gallery and earlier this year in Brno.
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