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When Albrecht Dürer drew the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento.

Buonconsiglio Castle in Trent is among the buildings that appear most often in the works of Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg, 1471 - 1528): he depicted it at least four times, beginning with two famous watercolors that the artist himself marked "Tryt"...
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Which 20th-century Italian artists are most in demand on the market: talks Susanne Capolongo (Pandolfini auctions)

How is the market for modern art doing in Italy? Are collectors interested in the twentieth century? Which artists are pulling the most? Is it possible to build a collection even with little budget at hand? And what should people who want to start a ...
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The crosses of the Museo di San Matteo in Pisa: the world's largest collection of painted crosses

Outside the classic Pisa sightseeing tour that features Piazza dei Miracoli with its Leaning Tower, the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, located on the Lungarno, in Piazza San Matteo in Soarta, in the spaces of theformer Benedictine Monastery of San Ma...
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"This is how we communicate Pompeii and the new discoveries": interview with director Gabriel Zuchtriegel

"Pompeii is the world capital of archaeology." This is according to the director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, who has led the institution for three years. A lot has been accomplished in this period: new excavations have be...
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The book in art throughout the centuries. What the exhibition in Genoa looks like

How have books been represented in art from the Middle Ages to contemporary times? It is a vast topic, if one thinks of how many paintings and sculptures over all these centuries have depicted a book in the hands of a portrait subject or in a still l...
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Julien Creuzet's France Pavilion: a total artwork for thinking about a different world

It happens very rarely to enter an immersive environment and completely abandon oneself to one's surroundings. It happened to me at the Venice Biennale, after facing a long queue (as is now customary to visit certain pavilions), entering the Pavilion...
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When Monet and colleagues invented Impressionism: what the major exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay looks like

A unique exhibition, the kind you will never see again, or at any rate it will be a long time before you see one of the same caliber: the occasion is truly special, the 150th anniversary of the birth of French Impressionism, and if the desire was to ...
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From train in the snow to water lilies. What the Monet exhibition in Padua looks like.

It sometimes happens that a selection of works from a famous international museum moves en bloc to create an exhibition in Italy with masterpieces from that museum venue alone, generally emphasizing the concept and the extraordinariness of the event ...
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