News Focus - Finestre sull'Arte

Madrid, the Royal Collections Gallery, a huge new museum in downtown, is about to open

A major museum is about to open in Madrid, the largest in Spain and one of the largest in Europe, a structure of more than forty thousand square meters, eight thousand of which are open to the public, with hundreds of works, a view of the city, even ...
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Late Baroque masterpiece from Genoa rediscovered: Francesco Schiaffino's Immacolata

A villa in the Turin area, a late 19th-century photograph discovered by chance, the determination of two young antiquarians. And, above all, the rediscovery of a masterpiece of 18th-century Genoese sculpture that, after more than a century, h...
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Podcasts, audio guides, radio, music: what audio tools for the museum

The pandemic of COVID-19 now seems to be a thing of the past, but if there is one thing museums can safely take as a moral of those unprecedented times, it is the fact that digital matters. Indeed, we might add that the potential that digital holds i...
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The Portella della Ginestra Anti-Mafia Memorial: a page in the history of protection written

On May 3 in the Pier Santi Mattarella Hall of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, Ars, in Palermo, a page was written in the history of Sicilian cultural heritage protection. And of the entire nation. During the conference The Portella della Ginestra Mem...
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The Amazon in Salgado's shots. To love and protect it

Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has always been attentive to environmental issues, a topic that has become more topical now than ever due to the climate changes that are preoccupying the entire planet. Think of global warming, melting...
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Overtourism is a huge problem. Here's what experts say should be done about it

"From the Alps to the Pyramids, from Manzanares to the Rhine, from Scylla to the Don, from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic..." one could quote Manzoni to line up the localities of every latitude and altitude whose mayors or opinion leaders have spo...
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Surprise: Miart galleries promote proximity to Design Week. The fair? OK. The comments

The 27th edition of Miart, Milan's international modern and contemporary art fair, which this year was held from April 14 to 16 as usual at Fiera Milano, ended on Sunday. The theme of the 2023 edition was Crescendo, a term that in musical language in...
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How much do works cost at Miart? The 10 most interesting ones, with prices

Ongoing in Milan until April 16 is the 27th edition of Miart, the modern and contemporary art fair organized by Fiera Milano and directed for the third year by Nicola Ricciardi. The key word of this year's edition is Crescendo, partly because, among ...
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Milan, kicking off Miart 2023. Here are the top 10 booths

The 27th edition of Miart, Milan 's international modern and contemporary art fair organized by Fiera Milano, is kicking off: so from April 14 to 16 the public can return to visit the event directed for the third year by Nicola Ricciardi and dedicate...
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Rimini gets a makeover: the refurbishment of the City Museum

Known to most as a seaside resort and a mythical center of nightlife entertainment, Rimini is also a city with an astounding artistic heritage, which sees its main junctures in the vestiges of ancient Roman times, in the painting of the fourteenth ce...
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Hands off Via Giulia: off with the wall that devastates one of the world's most beautiful landscapes

A 5-meter-high wall has been towering for more than a year on Rome's Via Giulia. An incomprehensible wall that devastates one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world and was built to protect a baroque garden that will not be realized due to des...
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Women in art in Livorno between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The layout of the Fattori Museum

For a woman, the profession of artist was very rare between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries because it was still considered male "territory"; however, female painters and sculptors defied the conventions of the era in which they lived in order...
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Finestre sull'Arte presents a web-series on Perugino, with Jacopo Veneziani

The filming of Pillole di Perugino, the web-series dedicated to Pietro Vannucci known as Perugino (Città della Pieve, c. 1445 - Fontignano, 1523), by the editorial staff of Finestre sull'Arte with the participation of art historian andart hist...
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Spotlight Inquiry. Autonomous museums: let's take stock almost ten years after the reform

The contracts of 14 super-directors of museums and archaeological sites with special autonomy will soon expire. Among others, in September it will be the turn of Paolo Giulierini, head of the MANN, National Archaeological Museum of Naples; in October...
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From Magritte to Leonora Carrington: Christie's big sale of surrealist art

The Tower of Pisa is dyed indigo, supported gently by a feather. Like a caress, as high as the leaning bell tower, intense enough to keep it standing. It rests with its usual tilt in a desert that fades on the horizon to a pink, fuzzy, suffused sky. ...
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Arte Fiera 2023 opens in Bologna. Here are 10 booths to see

The 46th edition of Arte Fiera, Italy's longest-running modern and contemporary art fair and traditionally the first of the year, starts tomorrow in Bologna. Therefore, from February 3 to 5, pavilions 25 and 26 of BolognaFiere, the historic venue of ...
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