Arts guide: exhibits in Italy

The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy's art exhibitions: FLORENCE - Palazzo Strozzi: Francis Bacon, including three unfinished works never seen in Italy; until January 27. - Galleria dell'Accademia: Art Returns Art; contemporary masters including Bacon, Klein, Burri, Kounellis, Picasso and Warhol; until November 4. LUCCA - Lucca Center of Contemporary Art: David LaChapelle, 53 photos; until November 4. MAMIANO DI TRAVERSETOLO (PARMA) - Fondazione Magnani Rocca: Grama Sutherland; until December 9. MANTUA - Palazzo Te: Pier Luigi Nervi, Architecture As A Challenge,; until November 25. MILAN - Palazzo Reale: Picasso, 200 masterpieces from the Paris Picasso Museum; until January 6. MODENA - Ex Ospedale Sant'Agostino: American photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958), 110 photos until December 9. PAVIA - Scuderie del Castello Visconteo: Renoir, A Life in Painting; 30 paintings, pastels and sketches, until December 16. ROME - Musei Capitolini: The Age of Equilibrium; an array of ancient Roman statuary and decor highlighting the balance achieved between Rome and its provinces between the reigns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius; third installment of the five-year 'Giorni di Roma' cycle ranging from the Republican Era to Late Antiquity. - Scuderie del Quirinale: Vermeer, The Golden Age of Dutch Art; 8 masterpieces by Delft genius plus 50 by contemporaries; until January 20. - Palazzo delle Esposizioni: Robert Doisneau, 240 photographs of Paris 1934-1991 by 'The Kiss' photographer; until February 13. - Octagonal Hall of the Baths of Diocletian: Modernity through Antiquity - Italian Sculpture of the Thirties; until January 1. - Castel Sant'Angelo: The Popes Of Memory, seven centuries of papal life through 130 masterpieces; until December 8. - Macro: Neon, The Luminous Material of Art, 70 works by 50 artists over 80 years including Dan Flavin, Maurizio Cattelan, Mario Merz, Alfredo Jarre, Pascale Marthine Tayou; until November 4. STRA - Villa Pisani: 'The Nobility of Work, Arts and Crafts in Venetian Painting from the 1800s to the 1900s'; until November 4. TIVOLI - Villa d'Este: Magnificence at Table; the art of Renaissance banquets; until November 4. VENICE - Museo Correr: Francesco Guardi; 70 paintings and 70 sketches from major world museums; until January 6. - Museo Archeologico Nazionale: Lynn Davis, Modern View Of Ancient Treasures; series of large photos showing "the epiphany of places sacred to humanity"; until January 6. - Punto della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation: 'Praise of Doubt', 60 works by 20 contemporary giants including Maurizio Cattelan, Jeff Koons, Jeff Bauman, Adel Abdessemed, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Flavin, Thomas Schutte and Charles Ray; until December 31. VICENZA - Basilica Palladiana: From Raphael to Picasso, 100 works; until January 20. photo: Botticelli, The Risen Christ