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Caravaggio in the Feluca. An Overlooked but Exquisite "San Giovannino"

Caravaggio in the Feluca. An Overlooked but Exquisite "San Giovannino"

These days, it seems that the public’s interest in Caravaggio tends to overshadow that directed at every other genius of painting, driven by the constant stream of solo exhibitions popping up just about everywhere, the endless films and documen...
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Reflection on Madrid's Ecce Homo: it is not by Caravaggio

Reflection on Madrid's Ecce Homo: it is not by Caravaggio

Of theEcce Homo (Fig. 1) presented as a work by an unknown follower of Ribera in a sale on April 8, 2021, by the Ansorena Auction House in Madrid, which caused a great uproar in the art world almost uniformly inclined to recognize it as a masterpiece...
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Rubens' Adoration of the Shepherds from the Great Van Schorel Collection.

Rubens' Adoration of the Shepherds from the Great Van Schorel Collection.

Developing the indications of Frits Lugt's Repertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques (L.2299), The Getty Provenence Research conducted extensive research in 2016 on the dispersal of the important art collection that belonged to Pierre Franç...
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Open window on a rediscovered Titian

Open window on a rediscovered Titian

The image of the suffering Christ with the crown of thorns, painted by Titian in 1547 in two identical versions, one on a slate slab given to the Habsburg emperor Charles V, now in the Prado (Fig. 1), the other a Christmas gift for his friend Pietro ...
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Reflections on Rubens' St. Sebastian cared for by angels

Reflections on Rubens' St. Sebastian cared for by angels

The exhibition on Rubens, staged until a few days ago in the Royal Palace in Genoa, presented among some previously unpublished works a painting depicting St. Sebastian being cared for by angels, belonging to a private collection, but for some years ...
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