The weekend exhibitions, from Bob Dylan to Zerocalcare

Antonio Canova, Bob Dylan and Zerocalcare: this week's exhibitions travel from classical to contemporary.

MILAN - At the Fabbrica del Vapore a major project dedicated to Michele Rech, aka Zerocalcare: from 17 December to 23 April the "Dopo il botto" exhibition, conceived by Silvia Barbagallo and curated by Giulia Ferracci, presents over 500 original plates, videos, sketches, illustrations and a site specific work to tell the themes, stories and characters that animate the cartoonist's world.

ROME - Bob Dylan is the star to whom Maxxi will pay homage from December 16 to April 30 in the "Retrospectrum" exhibition, curated by Shai Baitel.

The first European monograph exploring Dylan's artistic practice, the exhibition in 8 thematic sections presents a visual diary documenting the transformation of the sources and styles that have inspired and influenced the great star over the years.

A wide range of artworks on display, ranging from oil paintings, acrylics, watercolours, ink, pastel and charcoal drawings, to a range of iron sculptures.

The art of Stefano Lazzari arrives at the Museo delle Mura: from 13 December to 26 February the exhibition "Between the walls" is set up, curated by Tommaso Strinati, in which two series of paintings are exhibited,

eight roundels and a polyptych of fourteen elements, in all cases tempera on wood, which re-propose new angles of the museum.

At the Accademia di San Luca from 17 December to 28 June the exhibition "Canova, the last Prince", curated by Carolina Brook, Elisa Camboni, Fabrizio Carinci, Giulia De Marchi and Serenita Papaldo: the exhibition recounts the indissoluble link with the roman institution, in which Canova was welcomed as an academic of merit, then prince and finally as perpetual prince and where he imprinted a new direction on all cultural sectors.

Also at the Accademia di San Luca, from 17 December to 3 March, the exhibition "Eden-Eden.

    Renato Rizzi", curated by Giorgia Antonioli and Susanna Pisciella.

    Along the way, 170 models of places relating to thirty projects supervised by the architect.

"The Cardinal's rooms. Neri Maria Corsini protagonist of eighteenth-century Rome", curated by Alessandro Cosma, is on display from 15 December to 10 April at the Corsini Gallery: dedicated to one of the main figures of eighteenth-century Roman cultural life, the exhibition presents 50 works including letters, archival documents and works of art, volumes, drawings and engravings from his collection, such as the Figure Study by Gian Lorenzo Bernini or the Madonna and Saints by Fra' Bartolomeo, diplomatic gifts made and received by cardinal and the original plans by Ferdinando Fuga for the construction of Palazzo alla Lungara, the eighteenth-century inventories on which the layout of the Gallery is based.

GENAZZANO - "The atrocious instinct of freedom, Pier Paolo Pasolini and the New Figuration" curated by Francesca Tuscano is scheduled from 18 December to 29 January at the Castello Colonna Atelier Museum.

Dedicated to the relationship between the poet and some exponents of the figuration of the 50s and 60s, the exhibition focuses on 1962, the year in which a folder of engravings against violence was created, born from the collaboration between the group of "Il Pro e il Contro" and the La Nuova Pesa gallery, accompanied by twelve ballads by Pasolini.

BRESCIA - "Adoremus! Christmas masterpieces from the Bper collections" is scheduled at the Diocesan Museum of Brescia from 12 December to 15 January.

Along the way, the Annunciation by Giovanni Battista Moroni, the Madonna and Child with Saint Paul by Girolamo da Romano, known as il Romanino, belonging to BPER Banca, and two works from the Museum's collections, a pair of Russian icons dedicated to the Annunciation of the 800 and a sixteenth-century tempera on panel of the Venetian-Cretan school depicting the Adoration of the Magi will meet in an unprecedented dialogue.

BAGNACAVALLO - At the Civic Museum of the Capuchin nuns in Bagnacavallo, the group exhibition "The landscape.

    Beaten paths and new perspectives" opens to the public on 17 December, curated by Davide Caroli.

    Until March 5, a non-chronological but thematic and stylistic itinerary to suggest cross-references and affinities, in which there are works by some 20th century masters such as Carrà, Congdon, Morandi, Morlotti, Schifano, Sironi.